BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 9 Episode #8: Richard Madeley

[Nick29]

Boston was in Suffolk County, MA, but (like us) there have been a few boundary changes since 1660.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suffolk_County,_Massachusetts

[roopat]

Boston Lincolnshire?

Ooops sorry wasn't paying attention to all the posts *slapped wrist* 

Pat

[perth tiger]

Didn't like the changing lines to keep on the Canadian/American trail.
Seemed a bit "made for TV" to me.

its a tv programme   

[danuslave]

I think we're generally agreed that WDYTYA is made for entertainment, rather than as a specialist genealogy programme 

Which doesn't stop it coming up with some interesting genealogical stuff - occasionally

Linda

[eadaoin]

I really enjoyed this one - maybe more for the scenery/history than the genealogy.
we had a lovely holiday in Nova Scotia 8-10 years ago (but NOT in that weather) - I was delighted that they mentioned the unfortunate Acadians (the French speakers) who lost their land. We visited some of their sites.

And I found his chat with the Indian very moving.

eadaoin

[PATc2]

Yes I agree, I was very moved by the chat he had with the Indian man at the site of the battle/massacre. I am ashamed to say that I knew little of the King Philip war and the next day it set me off in another direction with my research.

On my gg grandmothers side of the family there are some ancestors who went over in the 1630s and I found that one of their sons was wounded in that event and died 5 months later. It made it all the more real for me and I feel uncomfortable about that even despite the distance of time and differing morals - but that's history I suppose.

[7igerby7he7ail]

One of those weird moments for me was the mention of Puddington, Bedfordshire, which I had been past only 1 hour before the prog and had never visited before.

Ezekiel is in the IGI cx 1624. Obviously some LDS member has searched this one

[Suffolk Mawther]

mention of Puddington, Bedfordshire

Is it Poddington?  the home of British Drag Racing?

Pat ...

[Jean McGurn]

It was slightly puzzling, having somehow got back to John HICKS, why he then went to someone to find out about Thomas HICKS son of John HICKS.

I think it was so they could trace the wife of Thomas Hicks
However it was not too clear

I think this may have been done in the editing because they had got to the end of Hick's line (back to England) and Thomas's wifes line had the battle/massacre they wanted to cover. Bit disjointed here I thought.

Think the battle/massacre was a perfect showing of two sides to every story. The colonists called it a battle as the report mentions a lot of fighting by both sides so the Indians must have had plenty bows and arrows to be able to last so long in their defence. Whereas the verbal accounts handed down the generations of Indians give the impression they were defenceless.
Or did I get that bit wrong?

All in all I thought this was a pretty good programme and it clearly showed that our friends across the pond have so much more available information of our earlier descendants than we have here  and how nice to be able to know that one of your ancestors had such a great part in history and be able to find out for sure they were there.

Jean