New series next week on the Beeb of Who Do You Think You Are?

[bearkat]

This has been a great series, very varied with lots of records shown.

[KGarrad]

I really like this series
I like the way that, due to Covid, the subjects aren't spoon-fed information. They have to actually read the documents

A little bit of a nit-pick, though.
The band Pixie sang with was the Blues & Royals (As seen on the drum) and not the Life Guards.

[doddsie4]

       I thought Pixie Lott was great last night.        She heard the band playing her tune and she instinctively began singing along with them.   She did it so perfectly that I wondered if it had actually been rehearsed beforehand.       
 
       Either way, her singing with the band was terrific.

[radstockjeff]

Very enjoyable. So much less complicated than Alex Scott's story but still very poignant with her grandfather's service in WW1 and also her musical ancestry.

[dowdstree]

I enjoyed Pixie singing with the Military Band.

She seems like a lovely lass with no airs and graces. Different type of Ancestry this week but thoroughly enjoyable.

Dorrie

[Gillg]

Good factual stuff, but I couldn't help being distracted by Pixie's wardrobe changes and yellow fingernails.  I got the feeling that there had been a lot of off screen discussion and prompting with Pixie and the researchers to make the finished programme run smoothly, but they certainly turned up some interesting information.

These programmes have certainly had a very different feel from earlier series. 

[Keith Sherwood]

I was rather fixated by those colourful fingernails too, Gillg, as I was by those worn by Alex Scott earlier in this excellent series...I can't imagine Ed Balls doing something similar when his episode is aired within the next two weeks.  He was excellent in a programme about Care Homes the other night on the BBC btw...
Keith

[candleflame]

This has been a great series, very varied with lots of records shown.

I agree.

[coombs]

I reckon the Italian ancestry rumour came about because Pixie's great gran Maria was baptised at an Italian church in Clerkenwell, and perhaps Pixie's gran assumed that one of her grandfathers may have been Italian, but they were Irish instead, and simply baptised at an Italian RC church.