New Who Do You Think You Are? USA

[KarenM]

Hi Anne,

Yes, they are playing it on Citytv (Toronto) Station.  I also get the American NBC channel out of Buffalo so I can see it on that one too. 

Karen

[AnneMc]

Hi Karen;

Just check on the tv schedule and I can see it this Friday night. have made a note to remind me.

Looking forward to it.

Cheers
Anne

[portybelle]

Just watched the Tim McGraw WDYTYA on iplayer and it was really good. As we've said before on here, a bit rushed compared to the British one but still entertaining. He was really pleased to discover the connection to the earlier settlers as I expect most Americans would be. And with who came over on the boat but I'm saying no more in case folks have still to catch up!

[AnneMc]

I find it very interest that a lot of Americans say that their ancestors came over on the Mayflower.  I don;t think it was that big of a ship and I am sure there was not loads of passengers.

Just a thought

anne

[stonechat]

On the one hand if you were able to trace all the descendants of Mayflower passengers then there would be quite a few

Of course this is never possible and there is a lot of kudos from being descended from a Mayflower passenger, in the same way that Aussies like to be descended from a convict.

However this can be taken to ridiculous degrees

My dad used to quote the 'elastic side post office' in Dublin

so many people claimed to have been there during the ?siege? that it was known as the elastic sided post office

[mshrmh]

Yet to watch the Tim McGraw - but they're really messing around with the schedule as next week's is listed as Matthew Broderick from series 1 

[davidft]

OK just watched the Tim McGraw episode and what struck me is how much they were presenting thinks as fact with no explanation of how they could be so "certain" whether it was how the Hayd's became Hite's or why Elvis Preley's roots are suddenly from Germany when there are several genealogists who claim they are from Scotland  Seems there is too much assumption and not enough fact in these programmes

[KarenM]

I find it very interest that a lot of Americans say that their ancestors came over on the Mayflower.  I don;t think it was that big of a ship and I am sure there was not loads of passengers.

Just a thought

anne

My husbands lot missed the Mayflower by 3 years coming to Plymouth, MA in 1630, however, he was a Deacon of the First Parish Church in Plymouth.

Karen

[Nick29]

OK just watched the Tim McGraw episode and what struck me is how much they were presenting thinks as fact with no explanation of how they could be so "certain" whether it was how the Hayd's became Hite's or why Elvis Preley's roots are suddenly from Germany when there are several genealogists who claim they are from Scotland  Seems there is too much assumption and not enough fact in these programmes

Well, I could accept the spelling variation of the name, but I thought that the Elvis Presley link was going a little too far 

And I also sat there in the knowledge that a few of my ancestors (on my mum's side) were also out there in Virginia (as traders) about 100 years before.  My 7th great grandfather was born in the Isle of Wight, Virginia, in 1644