BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 5 Episode #8: Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen

[Necromancer]

Wasnt the chap a local historian or similar ? He probably had started research long before Online Indices and search engines ... 

Perhaps he was well versed in the PIECE and Folios for the parish, and found his way around it quite quickly ?

 

[Sylviaann]

Ah the good old days.  I remember looking at fiches of the census.  I have some CDs now, no indexes.  Haven't looked at them in years.

Sylviaann

[tauntonbuff]

I have used that very machine or one which is a lookalike in the same room at the same records office.  Mind you that was before Ancestry et al.  Then you could actually read from the parish registers - what a joy!  You were touching the same page that your ancesters had touched!

Regards

Alan

[pippylong]

What if you don't live in Wales (Welsh libraries already subscribe to ancestry www. ancestrylibrary.co.uk so you can view census, bmd etc material for free) or don't want to pay fees for ancestry yourself - good old fashioned fiche/film readers will probably outlast PCs anyway!

L L-B was disappointing, but how many of us out there have uncovered anything remotely exciting?  We can't all have exotic back grounds in far off places!  Jodie Kidd was great! thoroughly enjoyed that episode - she even came across as being a pretty decent person and Human!  Did you notice the car they gave her in Canada/Us?  Radio Times pointed out that  because she loved cars/driving they had to give her something really good to drive, lucky girl!

Loved Esther Rantzen - hope i'm like that at her age!

All in all - good series - looking forward to the next and enjoying reruns of the past. 

[GeoffE]

What if you don't live in Wales (Welsh libraries already subscribe to ancestry www. ancestrylibrary.co.uk so you can view census, bmd etc material for free) or don't want to pay fees for ancestry yourself

I've just tried a few counties at random ... Gloucestershire, Wiltshire and Lincolnshire all have Ancestry access from their branch libraries.  You don't have to be in Wales.

[silvery]

Did you notice the car they gave her in Canada/Us?  Radio Times pointed out that  because she loved cars/driving they had to give her something really good to drive, lucky girl!

Did they?    Yes I was thinking all the way through how lucky she was.   

I have to say I can't really believe that coming from the 'titled gentry' as it were, that no-one had yet done the family history though, at least some of it.

[pippylong]

Hi GeoffE,

that's great news, I thought it was only in Wales!  Why don't we all use our libraries more?  There's some great stuff there for tracing your Family, you don't always have to trek to the nearest Archive Research Point!

[jc26red]

Agree on the local library, ours has the graveyard layout to the local churchyard and civil cemetery cross referenced to the names and dates of who is buried in each plot. Something the RO doesn't have! A quick scan (10p when I last did it) and off you can go without spending hours trying to decypher the stones or wondering about the unmarked graves.
Only downside to the library is the kids that are "supposed" to be studying in there but aren't.

[pippylong]

I think a library should be all things to all people - get the kids in!! at least they're not on the street terrorising the neighbourhood!  Of course when you have an XBox in your library that can be a pain but libraries are not only places to sit and study - they're supposed to be about bringing the community together under one roof - don't you think?