BBC "Who Do You Think You Are?" Derek Jacobi (WDYTYA Series 12 Episode 3)

[StanleysChesterton]

I highly recommend the current Australian series of WDYTYA which is chasing up errant grandfathers. An excellent series so far. 

I didn't know there was an Australian series.... never seen it on my telly.

My tree is littered with missing men to be tracked down - it's intriguing to find out where they went. I've not started on my missing men yet though.  One's in the RAF and I have a service number - but it's so expensive to get information from them, perchance there might actually be a record worth reading
There are also barriers as I'm not next of kin and they talk of "X years since they died", but until you track them down you can't be sure they DID die (one would be about 93-94 now and I've been told they died, but that might've just been a random comment to stop me asking questions).

[ankerdine]

We have an Elijah.  He was a bit of a joy to research because you don't get many to the pound of them!! 

I've got two Elijahs, (father and son). Don't know if their ancestors were religious or not. Judy

Fancy that! And I am a Judy too. 

Ha. Ha.

There's a number of Judys on Rootschat. One of them is a distant relative related to the two Elijahs too.

Judyx

[smudwhisk]

I highly recommend the current Australian series of WDYTYA which is chasing up errant grandfathers. An excellent series so far. 

I didn't know there was an Australian series.... never seen it on my telly.

Not surprising really since its never been shown on UK TV.

[sleepybarb]

We have a Samson as well, he emigrated to South Africa from Hayle. There were two Salome and Samson Rowe born very close together in Cornwall and I've had to be very careful when tracking them.
   Barb

[DavidG02]

I highly recommend the current Australian series of WDYTYA which is chasing up errant grandfathers. An excellent series so far. 

I didn't know there was an Australian series.... never seen it on my telly.

Some you wont know , some you will. Even some I have never heard of 

Andrea Bentschneider   , 2009
Ita Buttrose   , 2008
Kate Ceberano , 2008
Dennis Cometti   , 2008 
Cathy Freeman , 2008
Geoffrey Robertson , 2008
Jack Thompson  2008
Christine Anu , 2009
Ron Barassi   2009
Maggie Beer  , 2009
John Butler, 2009 
Ben Mendelsohn   2009
Sigrid Thornton  2009
Tina Arena, 2010 
Shane Bourne   2010
Rod Marsh , 2010
 Paul Mercurio , 2010
Magda Szubanski , 2010 
Georgie Parker   2011
Vince Colosimo  2012 
Melissa George , 2012
 Shaun Micallef  , 2012
Kerry O'Brien  , 2012
Michael O'Loughlin  , 2012
John Wood , 2012
Michael Caton  , 2013
Don Hany  , 2013
 Adam Hills   2013 
Asher Keddie   2013
 Lex Marinos  , 2013
Susie Porter  2013
Andrew Denton   2014 
Ray Martin  2015 
Peter Rowsthorn   2015
Dorothy May   2010
Gus Mercurio   2010
John Howard , 2013 (not the Prime Minister)
Rove McManus   2013
John Young   2013 
Rebecca Gibney 2014
Adam Goodes   2014
Amanda Keller  2014
Lisa McCune   2014 
Paul McDermott  2014 
Richard Roxburgh   2014
Jacki Weaver   2014
Toni Collette   2015 
Dawn Fraser   2015 
Luke Nguyen   2015 
Greig Pickhaver  2015
Geoffrey Rush  2015 
David Wenham   2015

From http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1152296/fullcredits?ref_=tt_cl_sm#cast

[DavidG02]

Loved Derek Jacobi in Claudius and Caedfael but he was recently ( 8 or so years ago ) seen in Dr Who as Professor Yana

Great cameo

[ScouseBoy]

He can play comedy parts, as well.

Does anyone remember him in an episode of "Frazier"  ?

[Stanwix England]

"I Claudius" I watched way back when but couldn't understand it.

If you get chance I would try watching it again. I had it on DVD and I think its something that really stood the test of time. You can tell that it was made on a budget because the sets are not great, but I think it's a really compelling drama with great performances all round, including those by Brian Blessed and Patrick Stewart.

[StanleysChesterton]

Not surprising really since its never been shown on UK TV.

Ah, I'm not very good with the telly ... I turn it on as background noise and it's on whatever channel until it annoys me, then I flick round to the next thing that doesn't seem annoying. I never know what's on/when and regularly miss things I'd have liked to have watched

I've got a freeview box on my portable telly, so way too many channels to ever understand what's going on!