BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 7 Episode #2: Chris Moyles

[bearkat]

I often wonder if any of the featured "celebs" have ever taken the info the BBC provides and carried on with their research.

At least one has joined Rootschat 

[williamscdr]

I often wonder if any of the featured "celebs" have ever taken the info the BBC provides and carried on with their research.

At least one has joined Rootschat 

who is that?

[kooky]

I enjoyed this one. All my 'brick walls' are in Ireland, and although it did not help me much, I have been inspired to go back to Dublin and see what I can discover. A plentiful supply of experts would be good!
Kooky

I don't know who's joined Rootschat either!

[FAB Fiona]

I often wonder if any of the featured "celebs" have ever taken the info the BBC provides and carried on with their research.

At least one has joined Rootschat 

who is that?

I thought rootschatters didn't get caught up in all that celeb thing, so what does it matter who it is?!

[heywood]

My family all enjoyed it - the younger ones who like him and me and my husband because of our Mayo connections - loved seeing Ballina!
We loved the bit where he was almost in despair at being 'English' because Hannah was born in Southampton - I recall my son, as a young child, telling his grandma that if it wasn't for her he would be wholly Irish and not three quarters! This was despite having two English born parents,one English born grandfather of Irish parents and his two Irish born grandparents. 
The last moments in Ypres were so moving for the reasons people have already said. The shock and emotion on his face were I think really genuine and were important that a 35 yr old was coming face to face with the reality of the first World War.
I quite like the slant of this series.

[hmcmillan29]

I thouroughly enjoyed WDYTYA.  Im not a fan of Chris Moyles, but he came across as a relatively normal chap.....loved the fact that his surname means "bald"!!!

Like Thornhill121 mentioned earlier, it would be interesting to know if any of the other "celebs" continued with what they, or the BBC had discovered.  He seemed to have caught the geneology bug like the rest of us!

I also have Irish ancestors and have found it very hard to access records, so I was astonishly surprised to see that you can search and have access to the 1911 Irish census FREE OF CHARGE!!

http://www.census.nationalarchives.ie

Last series was such a disappointment, but with series 7, so far so good.   

Hazel

[Polldoll]

Matthew Pinsent came onliine here and was just lovely .... his  Lineage as I recall went back   to someone born on the original Christmas Eve !!

[LizzieW]

Thoroughly enjoyed it.  I found it much more interesting than the ones where they found rich or Royal ancestors.  I could related much more to this one as I have ancestors who died as young parents from TB, children dying from diarrhoea etc. most living in the slums in Yorkshire, which I guess weren't quite so bad as the ones in Ireland.

I also related to him finding out about his g.grandfather in WWI, I was quite upset when I found out that my g.uncle (who I hadn't known existed) had been killed in WWI and more so in that he doesn't even have a grave, just his name on a monument.

Lucky people with Irish ancestors being able to view 1911 census for Free.

Lizzie

[Lydart]

I'd never heard of this chap, but it was an interesting programme about ordinary people living the hard, hard lives 90% of our ancestors did ...


Matthew Pinsents programme a couple of years ago was one of my favourites, because he seemed so ordinary and nice, even though he was from a slightly more priviledged family than many of us ... and as Poll said, his ancestry went back quite a way (though the God bit was somewhat tongue in cheek !)