General Chat

I just do not like Graham Norton,so any programme with him in I give it a miss..

Mo

Nudging this up because the BBC are showing repeats of Series 4. which I missed the first time around!
I thought tonights Griff Rees-Jones episode was brilliant..wondered whether anyone else had seen it?
Mary

Yes! Not one of the best programmes! Could do with help looking for my long lost relatives!!

Jean I am totally with you an that suggestion. I am rather poor and would love to win a competition to have my tree done. It might make exciting viewing!
Celebs should pay their own way and make way for the little folk hey. GR should run a competition.

I'll be honest here and say I did enjoy the programme.

OK Graham Norton might have been disappointed that there wasn't a long line of nobility or something in his family, but I found it fascinating that there were so many members of his family directly involved in recorded historical events. Much more interesting than my ag labs and railway workers.

Having said that, I do get Kris's point about his seeming to take the mickey in his show after. That' not really very fair of him.

As for the point about helping ordinary people with their family history, it would be a good idea, but television is business, and would an unknown non-celebrity pull in an audience? I'd watch it, and so would most members of this site, but we are few in comparison.

As much as i like watching WDYTYA, i would enjoy it a lot more if it was a non-celebrity.
Why can't the BBC run some sort of competition, where the prize is help in your family research, I'm sure it would be a lot more fun.
I object to my license fee being used on this programme, when the likes of Graham Norton have all the work done and paid for, and they aren't even that interested.
I, among hundreds of others struggle to afford to carry on my research, but i do it because of the deep interest i have in my families past lives.

Rant over.

Jean

PS......sorry to bat on.....but I do like this programme......did anyone notice that he was not over enthusiastic about having an English ancestor, and a Yorkshireman to boot.......the number of celebs, when finding out they have Irish or Scottish roots are usually very pleased......but from him, not a word....

I agree that it seemed far too easy for him to research all the way back to late 1600's, but it does seem that the church etc. kept good records......I have not even tried with my Irish ancestors who moved to Scotland.....Scottish BMD records give valuable help, but I think I will have no such luck with the poor Irish Catholic relations who left Ireland to find work in the coalfields of SW Scotland....

It gave a false impression......if we all had a team of genealogists and church archivists working behind the scenes, perhaps we should smash through our brick walls.....one think made me sit up though.....his Reynolds relations.....one of my relations was a Reynolds, but from Leitrim, and a Catholic.....so back to the drawing board....

I like Graham Norton's humour, especially the priest he played in Father Ted, but to learn that he had ridiculed this programme upsets me, and agree that perhaps someone more appreciative of their efforts could have been found......

My Irish ones on my mums side where dropped off by an alien craft and picked up again leaving no trace behind them.

Completely Boring as with the Person.Somebody more deserving and interesting should have been researched.As it was it seems he came from a long line of *******s and lived up to it with his inane comments During and After the programme. *M*.

I fell asleep and missed the end
catherine
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I can't find my Irish family after the 1851 census think they went back to Ireland but I do not have a clue where in Ireland they came from thank goodness the greatgrand/mother stayed and did not go back with them.
Margaret

Is that why my tv license is £135 due next month?

I wonder if these celebs get paid to take part in the program as well as all their expenses paid and the research all for free?

...and me rosemary this is what my brick wall is about x

His family was easy to trace because they were protestants, I am finding it difficult to go back more than 3 generations because catholic births/marriages /deaths were only registered by the church not the state.

yep totaly agree like someone said he got to find things easy where some of us searching irish records are waiting along time much prefered last weeks.
nice to see you kris xxx

I watched the show last night too. Well nothing exciting came out of it I agree but then I should imagine it's the same as most of the population, But what made me cross was how easy it was for him to find his Irish ancestors I've been trying for about 5years and not found One ancestor's records in Ireland! Hmm!

Norah

He may have found the results "boring" but I really felt that it was an insult to all of the people that had helped

Morning Kris

Sorry but I watched it and agree with him. I always look forward to the programmes and wouldn't miss them ,but I was very disappointed with his WDYTYA
I found it very boring too.

One of my least favourites of the series I'm afraid.

Don't know if it was because I was too tired or not but I found myself 'drifting' off!

Mau