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northern_rose
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At least one of my ancestors was glamorous!
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The last series was fantastic (ok not brilliantly filmed but better than the house programmes!)
I just happened to be off work on Monday and enjoyed the first programme and meant to set the recorder. I am now downloading iplayer.
Such a shame it's not gettting a more prime time slot!
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« Last Edit: Tuesday 01 July 08 21:01 UTC (UK) by Little Nell »
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Wilson in the Lancaster area Clegg in Todmorden Adamson in Edinburgh Miller in Edinburgh Nunn in Norfolk and Co Durham Smith in Glasgow Haig in Peebles/Edinburgh Also Nelson, Gardener, Garnett, Blair, Coleman, Aaronson and many more as the branches expand! Census info is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Mogsmum
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Heir Hunters
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I've just discovered a programme on BBC 1 at 9.30 a.m., entitled Heir Hunters
I don't know if anyone else has watched this, but for some reason I find it slightly distasteful. I know these people have a living to make, but there's something in the way they go about it which I feel is just, well - unpleasant.
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Jayson
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I thought the same thing and turned it off.
There's an important lesson here for everyone and that is to make a will. I'd rather burn what money I have than see it go to a distant, greasy handed relation who's only real concern was what they were going to spend it on.
Jayson
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Necromancer
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I'd rather it went to a relation or a deserving charity than the Government - which is what happens if these Probate researchers dont find a beneficiary ....
Distasteful seems a strong word for what they are effectively doing - keeping the money out of the Governments hands 
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Sylviaann
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Isabella Barette
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see also http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,312975.0.html
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Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukNorfolk: Gooch, Loveday, Lake, Betts Suffolk: Gooch, Crosby, Turner Hampshire: Laws, Burrows Kent: Beer Jersey: Barette, de Gruchy East London: Middleton, Gower, O'Farrell, Smith, Weston |
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Abiam
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It's that time of year again!
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I love the programme but fed up seeing the same filing drawers being closed 3 maybe 4 times in every episode is annoying.
And how do they choose a subject if they don't know the value? I fully understand that with Fraser and Fraser's overheads they can't afford to follow Great Aunt Maud's 500 pounds.
I enjoyed the Lord and Lady bit giving hope that maybe they may come across MY poor lost relatives.
Something else - what a greedy grasping government (all) we have that would give a wartime hero a paupers grave when he had over a million in the bank! 
Did they find relatives I missed the end?
Abiam
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Genealogists never die! They just undertake to join their ancestors!
DOBSON,Berks, Wilts.DOPSON, Fyfield, Wilts
SMITH, WEBB, Little Gransden, Gamlingay, Cambs
WEBB, Hatley St George, Hunts
HUNT, Wanborough, Swindon, Wilts
TUBB, Hungerford, Berks, EGERTON, Highworth, Wilts
WISE, South Australia, WISE, Fawley, Berks
WISE, Bray, Binfield, Berks
WYSE, Wise, Maidenhead, Berks
VINCE, VINCENT, St Mary Bourne, Hants, Bucks, Berks
TUCKWELL ANYWHERE!
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Necromancer
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I suspect that does happens - if its a straightforward case. The 2nd episode, where they went to Southampton (I think it was), the chap didnt sign the papers .....
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Aulus
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I record it and it's interesting to watch, as it shows a different (mercenary!) approach to the sort of thing most of the people here are doing for their own interest.
It does surprise me a little that there is sufficient money in it to run a company like Fraser & Fraser and all its employees, let alone them and all their competitors. Presumably these companies work on being able to get a percentage of the estate from the beneficiaries who "sign up" with them (hence why they won't normally say who's died until the beneficiary has signed on the proverbial dotted line). I suppose it must just be the sheer quantity of intestate deaths and the occasional real biggie that makes it viable. Though I expect they also do other work chasing missing people who are beneficiaries in wills, where your average local solicitor/executor isn't going to have the ability (not meant to be a dismissive turn of phrase) to do much more than place a few adverts in the press.
I'm also surprised that we don't see the office-based researchers looking at internet genealogy sites (ancestry, findmypast etc) to see if anyone's already researching the family - but maybe that would count as advertising and Auntie Beeb won't show that.
Was it yesterday's programme that showed them sending their researchers racing round London registry offices? I thought that was just bizarre. You get someone to drive into central London to go to a registry office (inevitably sitting in traffic for ages), when the firm's office is based in central London? Errrmm ... buy an office bicycle or moped and send the tea boy! 
Of course, we don't know how much "drama" is "created" in the editing!
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Lancashire: Stevenson, Wild, Holden, Jepson Worcs/Staffs: Steventon, Smith East London & Suffolk: Guest, Scrutton East London: Palfreman (prev Tyneside), Bissell, Collis, Dearlove, Ettridge Herts: Camac, Collis, Mason, Dorrington, Siggens Marylebone & Sussex: Cole London & Huntingdonshire: Freeman Bowland: Marsden, Noble Shropshire: Guest Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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