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Topic: BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 5 Episode #7: Jodie KIDD (Read 3120 times)
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Abiam
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I can't see a thread for this programme! Or is it me?
I thought it one of the best of the series. Truly inspiring with its ups and downs and to see the records way, way back in Yorkshire.
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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Wendi
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Hi again Abiam !
Well I loved it too, and I have to profess that I did not know who Jody Kidd was when the program started ! too much research, in last years who knows when clothes 
But I echo her ending words, that knowing about her past gave her strength/confidence and it was kinda nice to see a "model" filmed who was commonsensical, articulate and interested.
Wendi 
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"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it! No matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and with your own common sense" ~ Buddha SCOTT ~ Monmouthshire & Glamorgan BUCKLEY ~ Cork & Manchester FRANKLIN ~ Clerkenwell, London BRADY ~ Kildare & Manchester DERICK ~ France FRIEND ~ Kent & Portsmouth TYLDESLEY ~ Lancashire http://www.themanchesters.org________________________________________ Census information posted here is Crown Copyright, from www.nati |
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Abiam
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Hi Wendi,
I did know who she , she is also in Strictly Come Dancing BBC1 Saturdays, racing driver and horse woman. I thought she took the "food hoarding" part very well! I'm ashamed to say I didn't know there was a law against hoarding food in WW1.
But it was the Canadian and American parts that had my interest - not that I have anyone that brave. To actually see the documents for her GGGG.....Mother Hannah was quite amazing in Rowley, Yorkshire,
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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lesleyhannah
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This was another of those episodes where I wished there could be a follow-up. Everything they showed was interesting, but I wanted to know about the Scottish and Irish branches that were never explored.
Just wish they could have a follow up series - WDYTYA Revisited - to explore all the loose ends.
This has been a great series - I'm sure it appeals to people with no interest at all in genealogy. Like Wendi, I'd no idea who Jodie Kidd was, but that wasn't a problem.
I think they said next week's episode was on Monday. I do hope I remember!
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Rewcastle
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No paternal side researched 
But the question is:- Do you say Rowley as in no or now in Yorkshire 
Rewcastle.
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Hackstaple
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Not exactly the girl-next-door unless you have a castle but quite an interesting programme.
My word but she is tall! Everybody she met looked like a Hobbit in comparison.
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Southern or Southan [Hereford , Monmouthshire & Glos], Jenkins, Meredith and Morgan [Monmouthshire and Glos.], Murrill, Damary, Damry, Ray, Lawrence [all Middx. & London], Nethway from Kenn or Yatton. Also Riley and Lyons in South Africa and Riley from St. Helena. Any census information included in this post is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Flakdodger
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I agree too, a programme full of interest and a person who showed real interest (lots of note taking in her little book). Very much in the same league as Ainsley Harriott's programme, it did not come across as 'staged'. She was a game lass to have aired in public the remarkably derogatory remarks about her ancestor made by the King's equerry!
Dave
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kizmiaz
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My word but she is tall! Everybody she met looked like a Hobbit in comparison.
I think they must have deliberately put her with shorter than average researchers! She's only 6ft 1in tall but she towered over all of them. Not one of them could have been above 5ft 6!
It seemed to me that the programme makers were hoping for a blub-fest, but she was so laid back about it all, and seemed to be genuinely interested in the stories but had no real emotional connection to the people. I liked that attitude.
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Grothenwell
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This was another of those episodes where I wished there could be a follow-up. Everything they showed was interesting, but I wanted to know about the Scottish and Irish branches that were never explored.
Couldn't agree more Lesley. I'm loathe to put in this point as I feel comments should be about the programme rather than the person. BUT I couldn't help but feel she showed no interest about her Aitken's scottish and Drury's Irish ancestry. Especially when she was told the birthplace of Beaverbrook's father, it was more of a case of "yes, but never mind that, let's explore Canada". Perhaps I am wrong, but that is the feeling I got. Apart from that though, I enjoyed the programme.
Grothenwell
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kerryb
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I agree that was one of the best episodes this series. Very refreshing - her attitude, no blubbing and very laid back about it all.
I thought it was interesting seeing the story of some very early settlers that have led back to a family in Britain again. Normally settlers storys have descendents that are in America but I imagine quite a few must lead to descendents back in this country, so I found that an interesting aspect of the settler story. The garrison house was great and I learnt something about the early settlers and the sort of life they led.
I liked Jodie Kidd very much, she seemed genuinely interested with her notebook and I really didn't know much about her before
Kerry
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Nick29
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I agree that was one of the best episodes this series. Very refreshing - her attitude, no blubbing and very laid back about it all.
I got the distinct impression that a lot of it just whooshed over her head. Oh dear, so grandpappy was a food hoarder ? Ahh, but he did do so much for the country building all those ships, didn't he ?
So he wasn't doing it to make shedloads of money, then ?
Sorry if I sound negative, but she didn't come across as one of the sharpest chisels in the toolbox. Still a very interesting programme, and the New England scenery looked stunning. I've been to Massachusetts a couple of times - and I'd love to go back. I think the BBC could be in a little trouble letting Jodie's reference to "Indians" slip through
I also have ancestors that were born in Masachusetts and buried here, so that part was pretty interesting.
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Best Wishes, Nick. Research interests: Field - Luton & Islington Hole - Somerset, Suffolk & Surrey Farnish, Parker, Cattermole, Last, Wasp, Church - Suffolk Lewin/Lowin/Lowen - Hertfordhire Martin - Eltham & Greenwich, Kent (London) Stead - Greenwich, London (Kent) & Maidstone Wood - Hertfordshire Census information Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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) when they ended up at the Rowley church in East Yorkshire - a few miles from me, and I have a greatx3 grandmother who was baptised there! Not as early as Jodie's ancestors but I recognised the registers that she looked through. Didn't recognise the archivist though - and I go there often enough!