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Emilia Fox, Who Do You Think You Are?

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MelinaM · 08/09/2011 11:51

I love her, and found this to be another interesting family! ...I do think they could have popped Laurence on though Wink Grin

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ripstheirthroatoutliveupstairs · 09/09/2011 11:22

I thought that was the best of the series so far. Willy was a twunt, imagine leaving his wife and four children.
Can't wait for Alan Chatty man whose surname escapes me.

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Thumbwitch · 09/09/2011 12:33

Alan Carr?
Have they done June Brown yet, I quite fancied seeing hers but have probably missed it.

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ripstheirthroatoutliveupstairs · 09/09/2011 12:52

That's the one, Carr.
Yes, June Brown was one of, if not the first. She is bloody nails that woman. Not a single tear shed which was disappointing. I do like a good cry or at least well up.

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Thumbwitch · 09/09/2011 12:59

ahh shame.
I saw the JK Rowling one which was very interesting, I thought - I learnt some stuff about the war with that one! Those poor people in Alsace, having to choose to swap nationality or leave. (God, it was Alsace, wasn't it?)

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TwoIfBySea · 09/09/2011 15:42

Two of my dad's sisters would have been like those old Aunts had they lived longer (as it was one got to her 70s and the other 80s but still I wish they were here now.)

Really interesting story and Emilia was lovely.

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MelinaM · 09/09/2011 16:24

Yes, Alsace was the place in questionSmile

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TLD2 · 09/09/2011 16:29

Loved last night's one. The JK Rowling one annoyed me, she was so up her own arse, too emotional and false for me. "I feel an affinity as I'm a single mum". Yeah a privlieged one, hardly council house made good is she?

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Thumbwitch · 10/09/2011 06:32

Oh yes, TLD2, I know what you mean - but her actual story was interesting, not her.

Mind you I have just gone onto BBC iplayer to try and watch something else, and I could do it happily yesterday, and can't today. Same system, nothing's changed - but I can't play any of the programmes. I don't get a message about it, I don't get anything - just a blank black box and no play button. Anyone got any ideas?

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nickelbabe · 10/09/2011 12:52

i have to say, that Alsace one was very interesting, but I was Shock that JK knew nothing about Alsace changing hands so often!
I thought Everyone knew that!

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edam · 10/09/2011 12:58

JK Rowling was a penniless single mother when she wrote Harry Potter. She does know what it's like to be hard up.

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Thumbwitch · 10/09/2011 13:08

nickel, I didn't know either Blush

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edam · 10/09/2011 13:10

I thought everyone knew JK Rowling was a rags to riches story, but apparently not...

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edam · 10/09/2011 13:12

I was really jealous of the Larry Lamb story where they traced his mother's biological parents. Because my mother was adopted in 1945 and we can't trace her mother beyond the electoral register that year. Private adoption, court records destroyed in a fire in the 60s, no adoptive relatives still living to ask, no records at all for the mother's first name, middle name and surname beyond '45. Very frustrating - my Mother would love to know but without a team of genealogists and private detectives we are stuck.

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nickelbabe · 10/09/2011 13:40

just me then Thumby ? Grin

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Thumbwitch · 10/09/2011 13:45

I'm no great one for either 20th C history or European geography, Nickel - very weak areas for me! So I expect there are a lot of people who do know that stuff but I am definitely not one of them.Blush

I'm good at other stuff though...

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grouchyoscar · 10/09/2011 13:48

Rips, June Brown did request some personal time at the graveyard of the boxer's mum. I feel she felt deeply for a lady who was left alone in her final years.

Another cracking WDYYA series again

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AyeBelieveInTheHumanityOfMen · 10/09/2011 13:48

I've just been to Samson Fox's house (Grove House) - there's on open day on. Good timing, because I wouldn't have bothered if I hadn't seen the programme, Spent all my time looking for corrugated boiler flues. And that is something I never thought I'd ever say,

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Thumbwitch · 10/09/2011 13:54

I'll tell you what I did think was really sad about the Emilia Fox one though - was that she hadn't seen her Great Aunts in 20 years - such a shame. I know not everyone keeps up with their extended family but still - she just gets to know them again and one dies, and I wouldn't be surprised if the other one isn't far behind. :(

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ripstheirthroatoutliveupstairs · 10/09/2011 15:13

grouchy, I am clearly horrible then, she let the cameras film her which was odd.
Thumb I agree with you with regard to the old Aunts. Hasn't been to see them for ages then turn up with a film crew. Is it possible that Mary was calling the camera people buggers?

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kitya · 10/09/2011 15:24

Do you when its repeated? I deleted it because I thought it would be boring!! Wasnt she with Vic Reeves for a long time or am I imagining it?

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Voidka · 10/09/2011 22:14

I thought that Thumb. Also at the end it showed the younger of the two Aunts had passed away. I wonder what happened to Mary since then because it looked like she was being looked after by her sister.

I think she was with Vic Reeves for a time, and they starred in the remake of 'Randall and Hopkirk: deceased' together.

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grouchyoscar · 11/09/2011 19:33

Rips, no you are not horrid at all, I just remembered she took a flower, a picture of the boxer and a stone then asked the cameras to leave

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Gay40 · 11/09/2011 19:39

I love WDYTYA. watching it is a religion in our house, and we always have a discussion about our family trees afterwards.
I wish we had the money to research our own family trees.

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TwoIfBySea · 11/09/2011 23:32

I'm lucky that my dad's sister researched our family tree. This was back in the 80s so you can imagine the work involved. She spent years and must have been a fortune. I knew already that my great-granny (dad's dad's mum) was a right character & in widowhood had an, um, associate with someone from the Lipton (tea) family. Dad: I remember her always getting a huge hamper at Christmas. Me: I bet she did!

Always went by her full maiden name as well. The minx.

Auntie got as far back at the late 17th century where it turned out our family didn't originate in Ireland but had turned up there as Huguenot refugees. France to Ireland...perhaps not the cleverest ancestors then for escaping persecution from the Catholics.

Anyway, I don't think it costs as much now, you don't have to do the travelling my Auntie did for sure!

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ripstheirthroatoutliveupstairs · 12/09/2011 06:35

My mum has done loads of ours. She's always been interested and once she retired there has been no stopping her.
She has managed to find out about her side back to about 1730 and my Dads is up to 1630 or something like that.
She does tend to spend the winter doing it though. summer is for the garden and bowls, winter is for the genealogy.

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