"Who Do You Think You Are", Series 14: #5 Emma Willis

[tillypeg]

Why didn't she ask the researcher where the photos of the great greats came from?  I was shouting at the TV telling her to ask!  .... or did I miss that bit?

I came across the occupation "Inspector of Nuisances" for the first time just last week when I found someone lodging with such a person.  Had to Google it to discover the day to day work they would have been involved in.

[Bearnan]

I really enjoyed this episode, Emma obviously loves Birmingham like I do, it's home. Her ancestors lived on the same streets as mine at around the same time.

[iluleah]

Why didn't she ask the researcher where the photos of the great greats came from?  I was shouting at the TV telling her to ask!  .... or did I miss that bit? [/quote


So it wasn't just me who thought that

Nice person and voiced her emotions about her beloved city and how she felt about 'liking' or 'not liking' what she heard/found out about an ancestor  and I could empathise with those feelings

[mulvenna]

It is always a rare treat when WDYTYA find themselves in Ireland (where all my known ancestors lived). Usually it means the ancestors are landed ascendancy but it was a double jackpot Emma having a relatively famous catholic ancestor too.

I thought it was a bit cruel to apparently make her read out the gruesome crimes of her Dunlavin ancestor in the manner they did.

Fair play to Emma for taking such a revelation on the chin.

Gerry

[Finley 1]

Yes - an interesting programme

xin

[kooky]

I enjoyed this. I smiled several times. I have ancestors from Birmingham and Ireland, so was interested. I was particularly intrigued by the Registry of Deeds in Dublin. Also Emma did not seem to realise that John Grenham is the author of a definitive guide to Irish genealogy!
Kooky

[jc26red]

I enjoyed this. I smiled several times. I have ancestors from Birmingham and Ireland, so was interested. I was particularly intrigued by the Registry of Deeds in Dublin. Also Emma did not seem to realise that John Grenham is the author of a definitive guide to Irish genealogy!
Kooky

The Registry of Deeds is a brilliant place, though everything is now online (family search)  The books are copies but still very old.... the original deeds with signatures and seals are kept under lock and key. If you find one that is significant to your family, you can order a copy of the original... It used to cost €20, but that was quite a few years ago now. 
It's worth looking, tenants are mentioned in them, but you need to search the place name rather than grantor name.  Landowners and gentry can have literally hundreds of Deeds to their name.

[annaS]

Most of the way through but not riveted by it or I would have watched it all in one go instead of a bit at a time.  Not one I would want to watch again although I do like Emma.

Charles Dance has been the best one for me so far this series.

I agree with Millipede on this one  Anna

[fallingonabruise]

Was looking forward to this one, but couldn't get into it, but the thing that annoyed me was when the baby was found at a different address than the parents (the hair dealer) and it was assumed that it had been sent away from the dirty yard to live elsewhere, without saying that the census is just who was in the house that night, the baby could have been watched by a friend /relative etc and back home the next morning