Family History Programme on BBC 2 Tonight

[Rhododendron]

Apologies if this has already been posted but a new Documentary series starts tonight on BBC2 entitled "The Secret History of My Family".
Its the first of four and is described as "charting 200 years of social history by exploring different family trees, beginning with the Gadbury sisters, a trio of pickpockets raised in 1830s Shoreditch".

[Rhododendron]

Sorry. Forgot to add it is on at 8 p.m. for one hour!

[rosie99]

Mentioned here earlier

http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?topic=742842.0

Thank you for the reminder 

[Rhododendron]

Thanks Rosie.  I'd just got home and read the TV listings and not viewed all the previous posts on here.

[rosie99]

It is never a bad thing to be reminded about these programmes. 

Rosie

[Rhododendron]

Too kind, Rosie :-)

[rosie99]

I already have it on record but OH had spotted it, not me. 

[StanleysChesterton]

I'll be watching it.  I hope it's interesting.  It took them 2 solid years to do the research - that surprises me as they'll have had greater access to more records, more readily - and a budget. 

I like this stuff, but I do give a gentle sigh as I know nobody in my tree will get a small sniff of a mention, so it won't unlock little dusty corners of my tree.

It'd be exciting if it filled a blank spot for somebody on Rootschat though, eh!  How exciting..."that's the man my great-great-aunt's sister from her second marriage married the brother of...."