"Who do you think you are?" October

[brigidmac]

I enjoyed it .

Interesting that an 8 year old miner could rise to be a mine owner..

[avm228]

Well it turned out that Jodie is (distantly) related to me  Through her Auckland side. She was a nice subject and seemed really engaged with it all.

[Phil Goater]

Just experienced one of those peculiar coincidences: earlier today on the way back from a break on the Isle of Wight my wife and I called in at Winchester and visited the Cathedral and the Horse Power military museum. Switched on the box and there was the museum!  Never ever seen any reference to It on the tele before! At least Jodie was aware of her uncle Walter - I only discovered the details of my father’s older half brother after he died and he lived to well over 90!

Phil

[brigidmac]

It was her great uncle and she didnt know about him till her father showed herhis mothers notes
And didnt know he was grandmas half brother til researchers found birth certificate

My mother found that my gran had a half brother when she died but didnt know how to look for him .

[Gillg]

Quite enjoyed this episode, but it did seem to concentrate on very few aspects of Jodie's tree - the gt-uncle and the mine workers/owners.  It was interesting how the family had explained the grandmother's middle name - Verdun - in memory of gt-uncle Walter's death in WW1, only for it to be discovered that he didn't die at Verdun at all and that the name was simply a historical reference to the battle.

[Pheno]

Probably true also what was said about the naming of children after battles: I had an aunt with the middle name Mons.

Pheno

[BumbleB]

Look at the births in 1900 with a forename of Mafeking.

[pharmaT]

Probably true also what was said about the naming of children after battles: I had an aunt with the middle name Mons.

Pheno

Not a battle but I have a Horatia in my tree, she was born on the first anniversary of Trafalgar.  No previous Horatias or Horatios have been found in the tree so far.

[bearkat]

Quite enjoyed this episode, but it did seem to concentrate on very few aspects of Jodie's tree   

This seems to be the format of recent series.