BBC Who Do You Think You Are ? - New Series

[Beeonthebay]

Have the Aussies made a series yet?

Yes I think the lat one made was the 6th or 7th series.  Unfortunately the BBC seems to think we'd only want to see the US series.  I've seen several but most I bought online and had posted to UK. They do appear on youtube but quickly get deleted for copyright infringement.

Oh yes that's right we had a convo about this before lol.  I managed to see about half of the one about Magda Szubanski but couldn't pick all of it up......

[Beeonthebay]

I've been watching some of the old Who Do You Think You Are U.S.A on the W channel early mornings and afternoons. I don't know of half the people featured but they're  quite enjoyable.

The W channel you say?  Off for a scout and to set up some recordings   Thank you and Cheers.

[Bearnan]

Yeah that's right, three episodes this morning,  if only I could stay awake!!

[coombs]

I agree with any comments that WDYTYA is made more for the shock and wow factor, the Bambi style tear jerker instead of what us genealogists like, which is seeing them trawl through census records, BMD records and being told their birthplaces, how they lived etc instead of just one person.

[JAKnighton]

I agree with any comments that WDYTYA is made more for the shock and wow factor, the Bambi style tear jerker instead of what us genealogists like, which is seeing them trawl through census records, BMD records and being told their birthplaces, how they lived etc instead of just one person.

That's not what I like, that's what I do. I'm not interested in watching people sift through documents, I'm interested in the stories behind them. Granted, more recent episodes end up being more of a biography of a single person, but I like how older episodes would weave the records into the narrative rather than focus on the records themselves.

[Isobell21]

Who Do You Think You Are' Has taught me how to research my family.I will always be grateful. I see the program on Sunday night on the W channel.

[Isobell21]

Declan Donnelly
Bernard Cornwell
Paul O'Grady

Would love to see

Paul O'Grady
Colin Firth
Somebody off Corrie 
David Jason
Ricky Tomlinson
Caroline Ahearn
Shirley Bassey
Tom Jones

and many more

I would also like them to give Michael Parkinson a real shot and see if his family are really *that* boring, surely there must have been one interesting or juicy bit in there??!!

I would love to see Tom Jones.

My Jones Grandfather was born in Shropshire.

[marcie dean]

I agree with any comments that WDYTYA is made more for the shock and wow factor, the Bambi style tear jerker instead of what us genealogists like, which is seeing them trawl through census records, BMD records and being told their birthplaces, how they lived etc instead of just one person.

That's not what I like, that's what I do. I'm not interested in watching people sift through documents, I'm interested in the stories behind them. Granted, more recent episodes end up being more of a biography of a single person, but I like how older episodes would weave the records into the narrative rather than focus on the records themselves.

I think that they should do a programme for us mere mortals not just celebs

[Isobell21]

I like the format of working from behind it keeps you moving in the right direction if I had not watched WDYTYA I would not be it the right family.
I have a great-grandmother in 1891 Census,Mary Jane b. Ardwick (that is it) no nee name.All census taken 1871-81-91- are the same(no added info except the birth of each child.
So I start looking for marriage info, two years prior to the birth of her 1st.born.
Mary Jane and my great-grandfather in Manchester.
I find the registration which give me her nee name,then I find the marriage at the Cathedral it confims she is Mary Jane b. Ardwick and it gives the name of her Father,how hard can it be to find birth reg.
I can not find my 2nd great-grandfather in census of Ardwick 1861-51-41.
So I go back to 1861 census looking for Mary Jane now I have her nee name.
There she is living with her Uncle and Aunt,she is identified as their niece, she must be the niece of the wife ,her name is different from the head of household,but I am sure this is her,in the 1891 census her last child bears the name of the Uncle.
So now I am searching the marriage of he Aunt and Uncle,lo and behold I find the marriage reg.and the name of her Aunt is her nee also,born in Ardwick.
Now I find the Aunt and Uncle in 1851 census,but the lower half is decayed.
Aunt and Uncle are in 1841 census of Ardwick,below them my 2nd greatgrand parents with my 2nd great grandfathers name is a transcribed in error. Mary Jane is 3mo.old.
I never would have found them had I not found the Aunt and Uncle 1st.