BBC TV "WDYTYA?" Series 6 Episode #1: Rory Bremner

[Nick29]

I found it really interesting too.

I found found myself getting really angry because they had all those fantastic pictures, the medals and the mouthwateringly wonderful Crimean Diary and none of them had taken the trouble to look at them!  Then the BBC came along and did all the work for him.   SO UNFAIR!!!  Pure jealousy on my part.

I did enjoy it though.

Elin

How can you be jealous ?  They only went back two generations ! 

[elin]

How can you be jealous ? They only went back two generations !

Two fascinating generations with a wealth of family material and very rich trail of documentary evidence though.
I am having huge trouble just finding the birth registration for both my great grandmothers. 

Elin

[ostler]

The amount of generations is immaterial. The important thing is the amount of information that makes up an ancestor's profile.

[pjbuk007]

I enjoyed it, and liked the fact it focused on family history.  But also very envious of the family having so many heirlooms.  My own dear Ag Labs and Brushmakers left little personal trace.

[TracyL]

I felt it was something of a waste of the resources of all those BBC researchers!  All the information was already there if only they had taken the time to read it!

Interesting to see what they already had, but would have been of much more interest if we saw some degree of searching for information to uncover the histories.  After all, that is the real focus of these programmes - searching to find information about our ancestors and their stories.  This was a little bit 'on a plate'.

Tracy

[silvery]

I agree with Tracy.

And I didn't find it very interesting at all. 

[ostler]

Maybe it's a sort of taster for the first part of the series?

[Hodgkiss]

I do love this WDYTYA. But that was one boring Episode.

He already had a wealth of information that any of us would love to have. I dont feel like we went on a journey with him.

And frankly, he was boring!

I hope it picks up.

[TracyL]

I just think that if all that information was readily available to him, he can't have really been that interested in his family history in the first place.

Most of us search years for a tiny fraction of that info (usually without success!), so his commitment to the cause was simply not there and came across as such.

Tracy