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Re: "Heir Hunters"
« Reply #225 on: Wednesday 06 August 08 16:37 BST (UK) »
Not sure if I have missed it along the way. This question is for Neil, how did you find Rootschat?
I wouldn't want to presume to answer for Neil, but I was wondering if you've really never googled your own name, Lynn?  ;D ;)
Lancashire: Stevenson, Wild, Holden, Jepson
Worcs/Staffs: Steventon, Smith
East London & Suffolk: Guest, Scrutton
East London: Palfreman (prev Tyneside), Bissell, Collis, Dearlove, Ettridge
Herts: Camac, Collis, Mason, Dorrington, Siggens
Marylebone & Sussex: Cole
London & Huntingdonshire: Freeman
Bowland: Marsden, Noble
Shropshire: Guest

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« Reply #226 on: Wednesday 06 August 08 17:00 BST (UK) »
To be truthfull, no I have never done that. Now that you have mentioned it lol, maybe I will lol. Lynn
I am researching the following names.....Owen/s-Holyhead, Rimmer/Lewis-West Derby, Wood/s/Hayter-Toxteth

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« Reply #227 on: Thursday 07 August 08 21:51 BST (UK) »
is tomorrows episode a repeat ?
Holman & Vinton- Cornwall, Wojciechowskyj & Hussak- Bukowiec & Zahutyn, Bentley & Richards- Leicester, Taylor-Kent/Sussex  Punnett-Sussex,  Bear/e- Monkleigh Gazey-Warwicks

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Re: "Heir Hunters"
« Reply #228 on: Friday 08 August 08 09:39 BST (UK) »
All episodes with Nadia are repeats from last year.

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Norfolk: Gooch, Loveday, Lake, Betts
Suffolk: Gooch, Crosby, Turner
Hampshire: Laws, Burrows
Kent: Beer
Jersey: Barette, de Gruchy
East London: Middleton, Gower, O'Farrell, Smith, Weston


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Re: "Heir Hunters"
« Reply #229 on: Friday 08 August 08 09:44 BST (UK) »
hopefully to be wiped from the archives after this run ..... the repeat segments after each virtual advert pause or topic change are mind numbing. I doubt theres more than a 20 min programme there really, based on actual content.


The new series has a trace of this but not so much .....



..... and breathe ...... 
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« Reply #230 on: Friday 08 August 08 18:25 BST (UK) »
are they i didnt realise that  ::)

series finsihed just in time for WDYTYA on the13th - when i am on holiday  ::)
Holman & Vinton- Cornwall, Wojciechowskyj & Hussak- Bukowiec & Zahutyn, Bentley & Richards- Leicester, Taylor-Kent/Sussex  Punnett-Sussex,  Bear/e- Monkleigh Gazey-Warwicks

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Re: "Heir Hunters"
« Reply #231 on: Monday 11 August 08 15:53 BST (UK) »
As far as I know there were 2 cases solved thanks to the TV, 1 for some reason had never been worked was only £30k and the TV info didn't realy help, but the case of ALBAN was solved thanks to info a trully amazing story that I think they could have made more of on the TV. no time to explain now I may wright a book it I could remember all the little stories. They have asked for series 3 if we do it I hope to remove all the unclaimed lists and get them to do a bigger segment on less cases but ones that there is a chance of finding an heir.


I found this site thanks to google, we monitor a lot of press to make sure all bad press is corrected befor someone who dosnt know what they are talking about jumps on a band wagon.

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Re: "Heir Hunters"
« Reply #232 on: Monday 11 August 08 15:58 BST (UK) »
Thanx for replying Neil, it is great having an expert on board. Looking forward to series three. It is the best thing the Beeb have come up with (ha ha). Huggles, Lynn x
I am researching the following names.....Owen/s-Holyhead, Rimmer/Lewis-West Derby, Wood/s/Hayter-Toxteth

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« Reply #233 on: Monday 11 August 08 16:21 BST (UK) »
Neil

When you send Bob Smith et al around the country it obviously makes sense to have them in cars, but when they need to whizz around London wouldn't it make more sense to have someone on a motorbike?

One episode in this year's series had one of them (I think it may have been Ewart, what a star!) grinding through London traffic to get to Westminster Register Office, with all the attendant problems of parking etc. I thought at the time that someone from your office could have got there in about 30 minutes door to door by tube (Farringdon-Baker St 10 mins, plus about the same walking time either end, at the most).

Perhaps Bob and Ewart don't see themselves in cycle leathers, but maybe there's someone in the office who does? It would make great TV, too!

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