BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 9 Episode #10 TRACEY EMIN

[millymcb]

I don't expect them to put in all the research process as that would take far too long - but with something so obvious and so central to the story - I would think a short line in the voice over to explain their thinking would not be beyond them.

Milly

[Geoff-E]

I was also so surprised that her ancestors came from tamworth 5 miles from me  ...

I thought it was Tanworth - map http://www.streetmap.co.uk/map.srf?X=410888&Y=270439&A=Y&Z=126

[Geoff-E]

Hmm - I have gypsy besom makers from the Midlands

What do you make of his occupation in 1871?

It seems the enumerator wasn't too sure as he put it in quotation marks.

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[Mark Stevenson]

It is Tanworth and I have wondered for years what "Dirkle Worker" in the 1871 was meant to be.  I've always suspected he was pulling the enumerator's leg.

[Tsu]

What's wrong with living in a suburban cul-de-sac?  Her house looked pretty middle class suburban to me!

Her Price descendants look like they live in Essex suburbia and she's as related to them as she is to her gypsy ancestors.

She just annoyed me a bit, so desparate to be a bit different.

[Lydart]

I don't think she tries to be different ... she just is !

[stonechat]

Just caught up with the bit from when I went to sleep

Yes I have ancestors from Tanworth and nearby Packwood and Solihull.

No besom makers or the like, though much of this is yet to be checked against original PRs

[IgorStrav]

I was very interested in the travellers bit - I have ancestors who "travelled in work", or followed agricultural tasks round the country through the year, and I was very concerned about where they actually stayed and how they travelled, so to see the tents was very interesting.
Great photographs.  I shall have to try googling to see if I can find them somewhere.

[youngtug]

Try youtube; http://youtu.be/fvQ0abmXGEQ