Who Do You Think You Are

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Could Ronnie Mitchell BE more surprised. Every two minutes.

We had to stop watching because of her incessant surprise.

SHARP INTAKE OF BREATH!

PREGNANT PAUSE!

Yes she was rather surprised, quite a lot of the time wasn't she?

I actually really like her though, I thought it was interesting

I thought it was interesting and the researchers had managed to find a bloomin good story, but yy to her being VERY surprised and reading things VERY slowly!

I've had to stop watching WDYTYA, having researched my own family tree & know how frustrating it is it drives me nuts seeing how simple a massive team or professional researchers make it look.

I said to DH that all around the country there are family history buffs desperately trying to find out what happened to Gertrude Finkle Presumably they couldn't find any descendants for her to meet.

Thought it was funny that Gt Grandma went from that to Cruella DeVille and back again.

I know!!!!!! I kinda felt sorry for Beatrice, losing a perfectly good surname and becoming a Finkle.

I watched it too! She was quite annoyingly surprised at everything. If that was my family tree I would be chasing Gertrude Finkel and finding rellies all over the place.

But I agree with Tigress, it is really annoying how these people make it look simple. I have an ancestor I am desperate to trace back on, but he has a very common name (or at least used a common name). To make things confusing - or probably to avoid debt - he alternated between his first and middle names as a 'christian name' and the name he used on the census isn't the name on his son's birth cert. I don't have an exact year of birth, and there are about 25 people living around the area he would have been born in, all with similar names, all of the appropriate age.
To complicate it, he married twice, and I don't have surnames for either wife, nor details of d.o.d for first wife, so at the moment I am stuck.

Poor Anthony. I teared up at that point.

I thought it was great - glad it's back on!

I really enjoyed it but the constant overreaction to every piece of news was annoying. I wish they had tracked down some finkle relative in America.

I love WDYTYA. I began tracing my family history but had to give up at 1844. Far too complicated without masses of spare time, money and expertise. If I were famous this is the one show I would be begging to go on.

I was disappointed there was no meeting up with a Finkle. The constant surprise was a little bit annoying, but I was too busy having hair envy to let it bother me too much.

If I was famous I would beg to go on the show too. Or if I won the lottery I would hire a genealogist. A relative of mine traced one side of my family back years. I've tried to look in to the other side but problem is my gran can't even remember where she was born and she's Irish so makes it harder. On DHs side his gran was adopted in 1924 and we would love to trace her birth family but all we have is her mothers name. It's very frustrating to see it look so easy on tv.

Seemingly the researchers get the celebs to agree to being on the show and some have been declined for not having interesting enough family trees :)

'Oh that's where the blond hair comes from' she exclaimed I was thinking a bottle, myself...

I always find the reactions weird "sob they're dead?" Well yes... they were born in 1648 what did you expect???

We have some interesting stories in my family I'd love to investigate. My grandad is descent from a very famous person who history records as childless. His family are the only people with the surname because they took her title as their name (like William and Harry being known as "Wales") so it shouldn't be too hard to go back, but I doubt I'd be able to find out how they got the baby away from it's mother without history ever recording it!

I forgot that asterix is bold

Best one I've seen for ages - again hair envy distracting from her constant surprise though. Did notice how slowly she worked out someone's age though- was it the little boy who died? Effectively it was 10 minus 2, not that difficult surely?

I didn't mind the constant surprise so much, it was her rush to judge someone she knows only the tiniest details about (and I suspect she doesn't know much about what women's lives were like 100 years ago). 'That's a very cold face' - ffs, it was a poor quality newspaper photo. 'How could she have another baby when she had two children in an orphanage?' - well there was no contraception in those days for a start! I wanted there to be some sensible women's history person to gently explain to her that some things were quite different in those days and women didn't always have the same choices that we do.

One thing that always irks me about this is when they say that such-and-such relative came from Scotland, or Wales, or Canada, or Outer Mongolia (possibly a slight exaggeration here) and then the celeb says 'OOh, so I have to go to X to trace them?' and hauls off to to some record office where they meet an expert who logs them into an online genealogy site that they could have used at home...

I was impressed she worked out his age so fast - I am crap at anything involving numbers, perhaps she is too?

tunip my mum said the same - it would've cost a FORTUNE for them all to sail back and get the girl from the orphanage, so different from these days when everything is done possible to keep mother and child together.

I watched it too, as I'm a bit of a family history nerd, and have seen all the previous series. Yes, the incessant 'gasp' and I'm so excited! was mighty irritating.....but what with the 'what does that say? Can you read that for me?'

I know handwriting in old records can be tricky but most of what they showed was perfectly clear!

Not coming back when her son died could possibly be because of how long it would have taken to find out then how long it takes to get back on a boat? Probably wasn't even worth coming back when she found out.

Confuddled/Valium - yes. Also (I can't remember what she was doing at that point) either she's earning her own money and might need to carry on earning in order to eat, or she's married and may need to do what her husband says (or both).

They probably did find relatives and they refused to be on the show.

Sensible people these Finkles.

She was on the stage and in the "the show must go on" tradition, that'd be taking a lot of time out of the show that wouldn't be productive for anything.