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

[KGarrad]

Yet another good episode! What a series this is turning out to be!
Joe Lycett seemed very interested in his ancestors Marine life.
And shocked (as he should be) at some of the atrocities performed by British Navy/Marines.

[IgorStrav]

Fascinating! 

And full of those findings where you 'think' you know where an ancestor's story is going and then you discover just how wrong you are.....

But I wanted to find out what happened to Sergeant Elton.

[Keith Sherwood]

I agree with you KGarrad...
Thought there was a calm, gentle narrative to his gt-gt-grandpa's life that Joe Lycett followed appreciatively this evening.  Even if there were some very upsetting episodes.  So many familiar locations to me, too.  St Ives, Wimpole Hall, Greenwich, Portsmouth Historic Naval Dockyard, to name but  a few.  Oh, and the White Swan at Conington, too! Wasn't quite sure at first whether the Yarmouth of the hospital he was sent to was the one on the IOW ( most probably, being nearby) or (Great) Yarmouth in Norfolk.
I was also reminded of the Buffs doing a charity football match on a Saturday at our Primary School in Ely in the early 1970's, when a thick fog descended and with grown men taking on our under eleven school team, it really should have been called off for safety reasons.  But lots of money raised for deserving local causes.
Thoroughly enjoyed this episode, yet again...
Keith

[Martin Briscoe]

Yet another good episode! What a series this is turning out to be!
Joe Lycett seemed very interested in his ancestors Marine life.
And shocked (as he should be) at some of the atrocities performed by British Navy/Marines.

I found him rather annoying.

Was I mistaken but didn't the marriage certificate early in the programme show someone born in India? No more was said about it.

[Jebber]

Another good episode. Joe Lynette seemed genuinely interested.

An interesting  example of the awful working conditions of the child chimney sweeps. The life at sea with all that fresh air must have been a welcome relief, a great contrast from the filthy and claustrophobic conditions up chimneys.

[KGarrad]

Yet another good episode! What a series this is turning out to be!
Joe Lycett seemed very interested in his ancestors Marine life.
And shocked (as he should be) at some of the atrocities performed by British Navy/Marines.

I found him rather annoying.

Was I mistaken but didn't the marriage certificate early in the programme show someone born in India? No more was said about it.

I think you are mistaken.
Where, on a Marriage Certificate, does it show where people are born?

[jaywit]

I think Joe Lycett is very much a Marmite character, you do either take to him or not but I think he did in his own way find the journey very interesting.

Again as with Alex Scott I think there was too much in his history to put across in 60 minutes and I think the way they handled the mental health issues is very much of the moment, a programme 7 / 8 years ago would have handled it differently.

[Keith Sherwood]

As someone who suffers from claustrophobia, I can hardly imagine what it must have been like to have been shoved up one of those Victorian chimneys.  I find it bad enough thinking about what conditions were like crouching in a coal mine then.  Both places of inhumane occupational work for very small children in those days...
Keith

[andrewalston]

I found the story was well constructed using, almost entirely, the sort of records which we commonly use in our own research. Only the Yarmouth records and the list of licensees would require a trip out.

Are there people in our own trees with stories just as good?