Who Do You Think You Are?

My grandchildren are 8th cousins to Prince George, princess Charlotte and Prince Louis via Michael Middleton - 6th cousin to my father and I am 7th cousin to Kate.

Wouldn’t it be great if we could all have someone to do all that research for us, although maybe I’m in the minority I wouldn’t want to be related to the present royals
I’m Welsh so would like to be related to some noble Welsh people

MayBeMaw your story about the football match reminded me of an episode of The Likely Lads, many years ago. One of their friends was determined to tell them the result, and they went to endless trouble to avoid finding out, wanting to see the match on tv.
After many narrow escapes they finally switched on, only to find that the match had been cancelled, due to flooding, and there was an ice-skating programme on instead.
I hope that no-one has just bought the boxed set. SPOILER ALERT! ?

my heritage is a bit mixed so unable to trace much on my father's side as there is Russian, Dutch and German in the mix whereas mother's family came from the Scottish Borders and have been there since James III was on the Scottish throne.

GreenGran78

MayBeMaw your story about the football match reminded me of an episode of The Likely Lads, many years ago. One of their friends was determined to tell them the result, and they went to endless trouble to avoid finding out, wanting to see the match on tv.
After many narrow escapes they finally switched on, only to find that the match had been cancelled, due to flooding, and there was an ice-skating programme on instead.
I hope that no-one has just bought the boxed set. SPOILER ALERT! ?

I was puzzled by this, so I went looking up thread and see it was actually EMM who had the football anecdote!

I throughly enjoyed this episode.
Josh 's reactions were a joy to watch

Lesley60

Wouldn’t it be great if we could all have someone to do all that research for us, although maybe I’m in the minority I wouldn’t want to be related to the present royals
I’m Welsh so would like to be related to some noble Welsh people

I always think that Lesley. You can only do so much by yourself.

I also wondered if they would mention Richard Rich. Fascinating series and this episode so interesting. I'm so jealous!! JW seems like a really nice person.
I've gone back to Robert 1, Rollo Ragnvaldsson Duke of Normandy through William the Conqueror and Edward 1, and a couple of mistresses! Once you get back to aristocracy /royalty their genealogy is well documented so 'easy' to follow.

Grandma70s

Witzend

My normally very level headed MiL used to say that way back in the mists, her mother’s side was descended from the Irish kings.

My grandmother said that, too. Those Irish kings had a lot of descendants!

So did my Mum. There were a lot of Kings in Ireland, each clan had their own and most of their subjects were related.

I use Ancestry and have found out about my family until the early 1700s. Nothing like the things on Tuesday evening which were fantastic.
Good things like a link with the first black policeman in England,a well known poet and a large famous potery firm. Though I've also found plantation owners involved in the slave trade , a pit axe murderer, a convict sent to Australia for manslaughter and someone stabbed at Appelby Horsefair.All in one small remote corner of England.

Blimey, you all have such interesting family trees. DH’s and mine are all miners, factory workers and farmers, though there is a mill owner who I always imagine as being like the Timothy West character in Brass.

DH’s great-grandfather was left on a doorstep as a baby though, so we’ll just have to assume he was the one with blue blood.

I did have a go, I got as far as my maternal grandmother who married Hugh Jones (several of them) her maiden name was Jones. Haven't been able to get past that, the small town where she lived was absolutely full of Joneses!!Q

Ah yes, Gwenisgreat, I came up with a whole raft of Welsh Edwardses when I started on my mum’s side. Marrying lots of Joneses. At least DH has an unusual last name - I got a lot further with his family tree than I ever will with mine.

farmers

Farmers are posher than farm labourers, Maggiemaybe. As for a mill owner, that is really posh!

I have a Jones in the family tree but he was a wrong'un, Maggie. I think he jilted my great-grandma at the altar when she was very pregnant with my grandmother.
But they "didn't talk about that" and she died before I was born.

Witzend

And a lot on the wrong side of the blanket, I dare say!

Not heard this saying!! Hilarious!

Funnily enough, I've always felt like a princess - some people have said I behave like one at times! Lolol.

From their census addresses I don’t think our farmers were the posh sort, Callistemon. More the scratty old field and a couple of cows level. One had a fair few acres, but didn’t seem to hang onto them for long. As for our mill owner, we lost our chance of riches when great grandma ran off with a miner and got cut off.

I do hope Jones the Jilter wasn’t one of my lot.

I enjoyed the programme, but must say I find it more interesting when the ancestors are a bit more recent.

The revelations in Josh's family tree were amazing. He really didn't seem to know about any of it other than the "Bearings" bank connection which truly paled into insignificance once the researchers moved back into the mists of time. Brought back memories of the WDYTYA which I loved too, when the subject was His Grace the Duke of Walford! and his extremely tenuous link all the way back to Edward I, there you go Josh and His Grace are probably umpteen cousins removed which is something else for him to ponder upon! Josh, I've seen him once or twice, came across as a very nice young man. He's probably stuck into finding out what happened to the children of the unfortunate many times great grandfather who was executed, can't have been very nice to find that out.

Sometimes, it's not always favoured personalities that throw up the most interesting programmes. I'd never watched TOWIE, but thought Mark Wright's family tree made a stand out programme. I also love the ones that have traced their ancestry back to India, notably Alistair McGowan, Billy Connolly and Rupert Penry-Jones.

I’ve just caught up with the episode and it was the best I’ve seen. He seems such a nice bloke and genuinely astounded by all the facts that came to light.

Yes, Josh's attitude and genuine laughter and amazement were what made that programme. He came across as very likeable.

Maggiemaybe

From their census addresses I don’t think our farmers were the posh sort, Callistemon. More the scratty old field and a couple of cows level. One had a fair few acres, but didn’t seem to hang onto them for long. As for our mill owner, we lost our chance of riches when great grandma ran off with a miner and got cut off.

I do hope Jones the Jilter wasn’t one of my lot.

Jones the Jilter ?
I tried to find out if he'd died or just scarpered and married someone else but with a surname like Jones it was impossible. He had a very ordinary first name too.

Poor Great-Granny.

can we mention the Judi Dench one yet or is that on another thread?
I have just watched it. Another brilliant one. Quite different from Josh's but really interesting.

I would love for the team to do mine, however lowly it is.
I have done my own but you eventually get a brick wall usually in the form of a SMITH

Alias Smith and Jones Grammaretto

My family had a less well-known surname but they kept changing it and no, it wasn't a spelling mistake, there was obviously an argument about what it was exactly ?

Smith is my brick wall.
I had success finding a Jones in Wales when another relative contacted me. It is worth putting your tree on Ancestry or the like as somebody else may have the answer.

As for Judi Dench and the Shakespearean link, wow!
I wonder how many tree branches they have to follow to find such an interesting link?

I wonder how many tree branches they have to follow to find such an interesting link?
I'm sure there must be something really astonishing in my ancestry but I just haven't followed the right branch yet ?