Do you really care what your ancestors did? Watching Patsy Kensit just now and...

[PeaMcLean]

wondering why she's getting soooo emotional about what someone did 200 years ago.

Now, I am only half watching, and I am interested in what my ancestors did, but I don't think it would move me to tears.

She seems to really think that what her ancestors does somehow reflects on her.

Am I odd in thinking that who your great great great great great grandad was does not impact on who you are today.

grrrr, she was getting on my wick !How many times did she have to cry. That said I did some family history earlier this year and got quite upset that the council has mown down my great granparents headstones incase they fell over so I can't find them now. Do you think she really did any of her own research?? I would if it was me, just for personal satisfaction

I don't think she came across as 'not very bright' .

She was moved by what she discovered - family history matters to some people (mainly those who look at their immediate family and think 'god, I must have been swapped at birth surely?')

"When I was growing up, there were lots of secrets"

Speaks volumes about being open within families. I've got some fairly dodgy rellies in my family but i grew up knowing about them. They don't change who I am.

okay then... she came across as unbelievably thick. she did. really. i was being nice before.

I think it is very sad that in her childhood her father was constantly absent because he was in prison, and her mother was ill for so long. Patsy had to go with her mum to her chemo appointments because her dad wasn't there. I think she blames her grandfather for, basically, taking her dad away from his family and making her own childhood so hard.

and all those vicars kissed her mwa mwa stylee

They SO wanted to shag her

she was such a tart with those vicars...

I am obviously the only person on MN who quite likes her.

I have to say that I care about who my ancestors were but, as they were all Romanian peasants, I doubt that I'm ever going to be able to trace them. Probably buried in a pit.

well I must be unbelievably thick too then because I didn't notice

we thought she cried a lot too but I bet she was just relieved that there were actually some good people in her family!

It was quite an interesting one I thought

Whhaaaaa...? Why would she be a tart with the vicars?

i still don't understand why there was nothing AT ALL about her mother.

and why she only cried when someone boastworthy arrived.

next week's boris johnson one is deeply fascinating and genuinely moving, don't know why they didn't kick off the series with it tbh.

all the kissing, bigbad, so inappropriate imo, but suggestive of a long-standing MO. you have read the article below, haven't you? how ANYONE can take that seriously i don't know... 'i couldn't wash my hair! '

wasn't it carried over from last series because of no publicity for candidates? or have i just entirely invented that.

Sometimes they do seem to ignore one side of the family - I guess they had a lot of interesting info on her fathers side and followed that.

I think she cried out of relief and pride fishie.

I don't think she came across as thick ... just not very articulate ... there's a difference surely? (She explained she hadn't had benefit of Uni education)

Thought was an interesting one too ....certainly useful in terms of immaculate record-keeping to have a C of E vicar in the family ...... quite poignant re the muffled bells

I love the programme though the trouble is most of our ancestors were very boring. They have to dig about to find stuff interesting enough to fill an hour long programme. If I was C'leb I think they would have lots to say about my G Grandmother;s huge number of illegitimate children and the fact that my gg grandfather was born in the Work house and worked in the pits under horrible conditons. It's tragic but it's only good TV if they blub on air - remember Jeremy Paxman,,,?

and stupidity.

oooh fishie, i think i might have heard something about that too. deffo watch it, it's really powerful. (unlike patsy's, which was just irritating IMO).

ooh Dilly, I've just called her thick on another thread. And I've finally worked out who you are... (I think).

deffo a difference, counting. but imo thick she was... didn't ask any interesting questions, didn't get to the heart of anything. all just air-kissing and tears, all about Patsy and Patsy's ishoos etc.

actually i much prefer the ordinary stories, as i recall Jezza cried when he realised that his glaswegian grandmother had been thrown off the parish money because someone reported her for having a bastard child. i think this rendered she and her large family (no male figure) destitute. see, to me that's infinitely more poignant than finding out there's a sainted type in the family. as are the crims, actually.

well, yais, wilf. i thought hab might have tipped you the wink on the weaning one the other day.

I couldnt care less what my ancestors got up to, but to be fair, she was finding out things about her father and grandfather, not her great great great whatever. If I found out that my father did not do the profession that I thought he did I'd be really upset

(didnt see it, basing opinion on themildmanneredjanitor's post)