BBC "Who Do You Think You Are?" Gareth Malone (WDYTYA Series 12 Episode 5)

[Rishile]

first building their family tree, then trying to get all the documents available relating to their ancestors.

This is a painstaking task, which often leads to dead ends and brick walls.

Sometimes, we're extremely lucky - a vital clue will simply fall into our hands. [/i][/b]

This sounds like my research to me 

[DavidG02]

It certainly would be interesting to see a list ... and the reasons why they were scrapped. That would almost be a programme (or two) in itself I would think

Even if they showed the dead ends so that people don't think it is ''easy''. The frustration a lot of ''us'' have is that we ( most of us) know the frustration of finding dead ends and shows like this make it seem easy.

I also think it would highlight record sets that many wouldn't think of.

[Finley 1]

MAYBE   there should be a NEW prog..........   
Just going all out to break down the Brick Walls (idea  copyrighted as of this moment by me xin  )

But it would be (well for me) interesting to see how they would actually go about sorting out the dead ends we have come across.   

It would suit being called... Humpty's remains (cos he fell off the wall when it fell down)

Should start a new post with ideas for the new version of Humpty's Shell

( I know crazier by the minute )

xin

[ankerdine]

Ha, ha, a lot of broken shells!

It's been said before that many of us RCs have interesting trees and stories. As we are not famous then these stories wouldn't appeal to the usual viewer. I, for one, really enjoy hearing other folks' tales.  Friends are quite shocked when I relate details of OH's ancestor going to prison for stealing, my gypsy relatives travelling the roads, never mind the illegitimate births and husbands running off with other women! It's all happened to the best/rest of us too!

Judy

[ScouseBoy]

Gareth had a rather Superior attitude,I thought.
He seemed to lookdown  on ordinary people'

[SuzyWoo]

Hi,

I have just been watching the Gareth Malone episode of Who Do You Think You are.

About halfway through the programme he is searching for a family that he traces to Leeds.

He searches for them online and brings up a copy of a marriage certificate on a website.

I was not aware of any such website existing and wonder if anyone could shed some light on which website he was using.

Many Thanks

Sue

Moderator Comment: topics merged

[jan57]

 Hi ,  Gareth  was   looking  at the West Yorkshire, England, Marriages and Banns, 1813-1935  On Ancestry 

[ScouseBoy]

There is already a WDYTYA      Gareth Malone thread,  perhaps you could not spot it?

But I do not recall that bit, sorry.

[SuzyWoo]

Hi,

Thankyou Jan for your reply.

Sorry I had missed the earlier Gareth Malone thread, I'll have a good read of it now.

Many Thanks

Sue