I saw this last night, after having read this thread.
I thought Ann Reid was an entertaining lady. She was quite right to be horrified that her ancestor was transported for 7 years - an extreme sentence for fraud, even if it was truly fraud (who can really tell at this distance of time, without hearing the arguments and seeing the people involved).
And I found the information about Transportation fascinating, given that a relation of mine was transported at much the same time, although on the Eden to Australia rather than Tassie.
If I have one comment, it is that drunkenness can be upsetting and violent as well as entertaining.
Perhaps Annie has been fortunate in only seeing the latter - I know in my own history that hard-working men drinking their wages away in the pub, and then returning worse the wear to their wives and laying about them with their fists, were the root of the abstinence movement. My own parents saw that.
If you research your family, there are often things you come across which shock you. Sometimes there are crimes in the past, and you feel horrified that they are 'in your family'. If I was being filmed whilst discovering these things, I might well laugh (even in a horrified way), and endeavour to minimise them at the time.
At least Annie's ancestor did his best on the transportation voyage, survived his 2 years probation, and then made a success of himself. He was a bit of a bad lad, perhaps, but he certainly had a very severe punishment.
