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I was bored. switched over at 9.40pm. Sorry :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-(

GP

Too recent - she kept saying 'Oh, I remember visiting...'

She knew too much already,it seems as though they are dragging things out just to make a programme.

Hope it improves ,but I doubt it will.
See more exiting results on here.

Maryb.

It's Brendan O'Carroll (Mrs Browns Boys) next Thursday and I hope this one will be more interesting.

GP

I found last nights boring too. Kept repeating the same findings over and over, and I should think most viewers are adult enough to understand the situations.
Interested in her journey to the I.O.Man, as when we last visited I learnt a lot about Italian prisoners kept there in WW2. Must have been distressing for them being isolated from their families.
From pictures used on programme the buildings on the seafront haven't changed much at all.

Think Tamzin is lucky to know so much from her 'living family',
but it did come across that she was proud of her ancestors.

Just watched some of Julie Walters but gave up half way though. Her family undoubtedly treated extremely badly but episode far too boring I thought.

Have followed with B squared but I really cannot stand the man - who also has my initials! With 13 minutes gone it's time for an early afternoon nap, methinks.
Sorry WDYTYA, but not the best I have seen.

I hope to see Tamzin and Martin's shows.
At least Kelsey Grammer's (US) was good the other day.

The thing for me as many have said its only doing one gen and so they are repeating themselves Tazmin travelled to the IOM and Glassgow and t'other place for 1 Grandparent it also outraged me that she kept saying " they were only icecream sellars" Grrrrrrr but Itianians and we were at War with them and also her great Uncle was only 19 at the time so by my reckoning if Alfonzo came to the UK in 1913 as suggested and his son was born in Italy in 1920 he had been back there.

I have a feeling that Brendan O'Carrolls is going to focus soley on his mother.

I have just been reading that its about Brendans grandfather who was shot and killed. He wants to find the killer.

Oh dear not what I was hoping for
:-( :-( :-(

Jezzzz sounds like WYDTYA New Tricks and Downton Abby all rolled in to one :-(

I believe he came over to Glasgow in 1913 then he was called up into the Italian army in 1916.... So went back

Then returned after the war in 1921

I did like Julie Walters but the same old thing (social history) just went on far too long for me - we could have had at least 4 GG Parents lives analysed
In that amount of time.

Tamzin Outhwaite - well what can I say - it stuck on the one person & was far too up to date and as for speaking about concentration camps on The Isle of Man - I cringed. I dont think i need to know anything else about making Ice Cream. She did not look amused when it splatted her did she. e sounded a very sweet person but not for the subject of an hour long programme.

I may end up giving up on this series as well - I think the last series lost the plot – they promised this series would be better and back to the old format.

Well so far it’s still the same old thing - find an ancestor and do the whole programme on it.

Totally agree Tabitha

Don't know if I am looking forward to tonight's episode
I would have thought he would have found this information
ages ago by paying someone to research it for him if it was
so important he needed to know.
To what point will it make any difference finding the killer.

Emma

I will be watching tonight's programme with interest. :-D

I am just wondering Rose why this one was
taken on, not unless the killer is a ancestor
which I doubt.

My thoughts as well Emma.

I would have thought this story would have hit the newspapers when it happened,& more than likely to have been passed down within the family! & it's not "that" far back really!
I shall most likely watch it but I reckon that the programme is once again going to be stuck on the one storyline & I don't think it's what we as family history researchers (especially those new to the hobby) want to see in a WDYTYA programme.

Joan.

I agree Joan, it's not that he couldn't afford to find this info
himself, it is disappointing that we are only getting one
storyline.

Emma

I would think it is only recently that an irishman trying to research the actions of a Black and tan in 1920 would be able to do so 'safely', ie without arousing the attentions of the 'powers that be' . Call me suspicious but would you have looked into the murder of a Sinn Fein member of your family by the military during the 70s or 80s , which is when he might have been expected to look perhaps? I wouldn't have.

But point taken that it is a storyline that won't appeal to many, unless it has some relevance to them, and not really about genealogy so much as a specific part of history. But then WDYTYA hasn't really shown people how to DIY since the first series or so i don't think? other than a quick shot of someone looking at a census or the details on a cert it does nothing to show a newbie 'how' ...only perhaps 'why' . :-)

With the history as you say Rose of the Black and Tan I
would not have bothered period, as I say to what point
in knowing the killer, some family members of the killer
may not appreciate this being shown.

I'm sure they wouldn't Emma, but the alleged killer is already 'out there' in terms of public knowledge of his actions in Ireland at that time. If he has living family they must already know his history.