WDYTYA series 4 # 7 Matthew Pinsent

[kizmiaz]

 Is it most likely they emigrated one way across the Atlantic? or equally possible there was a too and fro?

In answer to your question, yes there probably was quite a large amount of tooing and froing (that phrase just doesn't look right!?) between the colonies and the home country even relatively far back in the past. What sort of era are you looking at?

Some of the outer edges of the empire would have been visited by trade ships and mail ships on a fairly regular basis, so people would have had the opportunity, provided they had the cash or were willing to work their passage, to travel back and forth.

Unfortunately, this would mean that records were less than accurate if they were kept at all.

Glen

[Guy Etchells]

Just a quick query.

We are now all using the term as if its something that has always been known, but how many of us here had heard the term "Gateway Ancestor" before this show?

I for one hadn't come across it yet, so I wonder if I had just missed something fundamental, or if this isn't necessarily a normal term in genealogical circles, such as this one, however useful it is?

Glen

It was first coined by Major Francis Jones
Cheers
Guy

[Princess Poppy]

I'd heard the term Gateway Ancestor before on a TV programme hosted by Anthony Adolph I think.

Nice to see someone with such an impressive pedigree not too grand to visit a forum.  Well done that man! 

Thought the story about your relative who committed suicide incredibly sad.  What a terrible thing war is.  What it does to people. 

Cheers, PP

[nanny jan]

Just seen the show (kindly recorded by dad as I was rellie-hunting in London) and thoroughly enjoyed it.

I found the WW1 items very moving; all the soldiers I've found in my line came home, although some were badly injured.   Such a waste of young lives.

Welcome to Rootschat Matt!

Nanny Jan

[ludovica]

Just a quick query.

We are now all using the term as if its something that has always been known, but how many of us here had heard the term "Gateway Ancestor" before this show?

I for one hadn't come across it yet, so I wonder if I had just missed something fundamental, or if this isn't necessarily a normal term in genealogical circles, such as this one, however useful it is?

Glen

It was first coined by Major Francis Jones
Cheers
Guy

 Who coincidentally was the source of the information that gave me the proof that I had a Gateway Ancestor ..

[Subaru]

Welcome to Rootschat Matt

I had never heard of a gateway ancestor either.

You'll have realised by now what big fans we are of WDYTYA, you're quite a celebrity

I have to admit though, I'm not a big sports fan, so I had to ask my OH who you were
It just shows by you joining Rootschat how addicted you have become, like us all.

Rosemary

[Lynn H]

Welcome to RootsChat. Matthew.

            What an exellant show. All the Folks on here are great people and will do anything to help, all you have to do is ask

      Thanx again for a wonderful finale to the season

                                     Lynn H.

[geniedi]

I think the programme I saw it in was one Bill Oddie presented called My Famous Family??

It was on satellite telly.

[Princess Poppy]

Hi Geniedi,

Yes, I think you're right!  Bill Oddie presented the programme but I think they wheeled Anthony Adolph on to talk about Gateway Ancestors as the shows in-house expert.

http://uktv.co.uk/press/?uktv=features.item&aid=557140

Cheers, PP