Who Do You Think You Are (UK) - series 22 announced

[coombs]

The Chalmers line on an Ancestry tree has been traced back to the mid 1700s, and all from the Hampshire or Sussex area. You never know, there may have been an Irish sailor or something in the line somewhere but it is quite a long way back. Or they were friends with Irish people, and the tale of the Kemp's Irish blood got garbled.

[BillyF]

I did find the "Kemp" episode more interesting than I had anticipated.
TY

I agree            I also agree !!

[coombs]

Not one of my favourites but I guess it depends what subjects you are interested in.  The US history part I enjoyed.

I agree, but it "is" made to look easy, when we all know how difficult it can be. I can`t remember an episode where someone has said just how many hours it took(takes) to find a record.

I`ve spent all day on occasion at the archives only to leave without finding any success.

Mishal was a breath of fresh air not saying "wow"  ( or even worse wowsers) once ! Jerry Hall springs to mind!!

With more coming online, it can still be hard if not impossible to find, say for example, a link between 2 families in the same area once you get back to the 1700s. I still like to do FH the old fashioned way, and I plan a trip to the Society of Genealogists soon.

[KGarrad]

I did some research for WDYTYA a few years back.
Manx Parish Registers of the relevant time didn't always enter Occupation or Abode.
So, the baptism I needed was narrowed down to 1 of 12 possibles, with nothing to distinguish between them! (It was quite a common name  )

[ThrelfallYorky]

I know that feeling! Sometimes you think EVERYONE with a certain surname was obliged to have the same parents and first names, just to confuse us all!
TY

[coombs]

I think it is impossible to untangle them, and you may never know for sure who was who if some families lived in the same area and had children of same names. In genealogy you have to perhaps admit defeat with some lines, rather than waste time on a wild goose chase. In those days they were not too worried about people tracing them 300 years down the line.

I one workplace I had about 8 or 9 people with the surname Smith over the years, and 4 or 5 working there at the same time. I had the same surname as another colleague, much less common than Smith, and got asked if he was my "old man". I said no, it is purely coincidence.

2 other colleagues, 2 people came originally from Grimsby and moved down to Norfolk, but one of them said he did not know the other one when they were one living in Grimsby and they were the same age. In 300 years their descendants may falsely assume they were related, or pals, and moved to Norfolk together for work.

[jaywit]

Tuesday 27th May. At last something different.

Fred Serieix  OK not many of us will be researching French ancestors but a different slant on World Wars 1 and 2 both times their own home country being invaded.

The researchers did suggest records could be difficult to find but they did come up with some.

[ThrelfallYorky]

OH found - and I'm afraid I agreed with him - the "Serieix"  one so bad that we changed to watch something else. Usually there's something more interesting in most of them. Ah well. Can't have good ones each time.
TY

[KGarrad]

I enjoyed the Fred Serieix episode.

The program showed some of the differences between our records and those of other countries.
My paternal tree goes back to the time of Edward VI - 1550.
Something that didn't seem to be possible with French records?

Even seeing a different slant on WW1 and WW2 was interesting! And I usually get bored with UK WW1 and WW2 stories.