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I've been looking at Una Stunns tree to see what they may pick up on, you never know what they stop at and find worth researching. He dad's side was from York craft, her dad's mum was adopted aged 6 or there abouts. that's quite interesting as usually it's a step-adoption but this isn's as clear cut. her father's parents were Arthur Stubbs and Annie Robinson b 1885 york though she was adopted and named Annie Horsfall by her adopted family. Her mother was Eliza Robinson b 1863 york.
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very often the interesting history is more about one particular related aspect, they make a general film about the history of an industry, an institution or the military and then apply it generally to the ancestor. it can be useful from a family history point of view but genealogically it doesn;t take you any further back. they very rarely get beyond the late 1800s.
Marianne Faithfull's family looks amazingly interesting, and she lived in Ormskirk when she was little, I never knew that, (I gre up there). That's going to be oe of those trees where an awful lot is already done as it has European aristocracy.
Nigel Havers looks interesting, his maternal grandmother and her parents and siblings are all recorded on the 1911 as 'British Subject by parentage' that might be worht a nosey.
Nigel Havers looks interesting, his maternal grandmother and her parents and siblings are all recorded on the 1911 as 'British Subject by parentage' that might be worht a nosey.
maybe they won't do the adoption mystery on una's dad's side cos he maternal great grandfather is this man, that's the same pic as on some of the trees in ancestry, including the Henson one:
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there's no harm in speculating, this is the aspect that bemuses me with the show, they very rarely find anything directly interesting and I'm interested enough to see what they might find. There is nothing to say they haven't spent their research budget wisely and found vast swathes of interesting stuff. A few bits of speculation from me to while a way the time whilst I am stuck at homne is not going to cause any great distress to anyone lol
Minnie Driver;s tree seems quite difficult, though I;ve found (I think) her father's RAf record, he was awarded the DFM, I hope they feature that side of him as he seems to have been a larger than life character mixing with the hoy poloy and the Duchess of York. He was flitting across the atlantic on the Queen Elizabeth and Queen Mary in the 1950s and 60s when most people still didn;t have a car, and his house in Mayfair sold for 4m 3 years ago. He achieved that from what looks like a very humble birth in the back streets of Swansea. That should all be very interesting and I'm looking forward to seeing if I've got her grandparents right. Quite a challenge this one.
For me it's of more value and enjoyment to look at the trees first and then when the show comes on it is less frustrating at how easy they make it look. So far there seems to be some good meaty topics to get their teeth into, but with the money they throw at research you can never tell what they are going to expand on.
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