Genes Reunited Blogs
Welcome to the new Genes Reunited blog!
- We will be adding blogs covering a variety of topics. The functionality is not quite finished yet so unfortunately you cannot add comments but we are working on this.
- The Genes Reunited Team will be writing blogs and keeping you up to date with changes happening on the site, but we will also be asking you to write blogs about topics that interest you.
- We will also have guest bloggers that will be able to give you tips and advice as to how to trace your family history.
- The blogs will have various privacy settings, so that you can choose who you share your blog with.
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Posts for TV
Did you see the fourth episode of Long Lost Family on Thursday? It featured two very different but extremely emotional stories.
Long Lost Family – Series 2 Episode 3
Did you miss episode 3 of Long Lost Family, or need a refresh? It was another great watch, so here's a quick recap. In last night's episode Peter Arundel and Maureen Saville were both searching for their birth mothers.
Long Lost Family – Series 2 Episode 2
The second episode of series proved to be another emotional one. We followed two very different stories this week. First of all we met Brenda. She fell pregnant and moved to a Mother and Baby home when she was 3 months gone. She lived there with her daughter Joanne until she was 6 weeks old. Sadly keeping the baby wasn’t an option for Brenda and so she had no choice but to give her up for adoption.
Long Lost Family – Series 2 Episode 1
This week saw the return of ITV1 series Long Lost Family, and the first episode proved to be the emotional rollercoaster reunion we had hoped for. Taking me from a state of sadness and sympathy to one of joy and happiness as the relatives are reunited and I reach for yet another tissue to dry the stream of tears running down my face.
Last Thursday saw the last in the series of Find My Past, and what an episode it was.
During World War One, 306 British Soldiers were sentenced to death for cowardice or desertion. These men were taken out, tied to a post, and shot at dawn by their own side. Today it is believed that many of them were suffering from shell shock and in 2006 all of them were officially pardoned by the Government.
This week Find My Past reunited three people whose ancestors were all linked in some way to Jack the Ripper. Jack the Ripper was the name given to the unknown serial killer who brutally murdered 5 prostitutes in the Whitechapel area of East London in 1888.
This week's episode of Find My Past focused on the Mutiny that occurred on board HMS Bounty on 28th April 1789.
The latest episode of the Find My Past TV Show featured the D-Day invasion. The show uncovered British troops on their way to Normandy to take part in the D-Day landings.
The Battle of Britain was the first major campaign to be fought entirely by air forces. From July 1940 coastal shipping convoys and shipping centres were the main targets until the Luftwaffe shifted its attacks to RAF airfields and infrastructure. As the battle progressed the Luftwaffe also targeted aircraft factories and ground infrastructure.
