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A brilliant program - really enjoyed this last one. I thought he was going to cry when he found out George had committed suicide.

well i really enjoyed that one .i think its me fave to date.brill.xxxxxxxxxx

Absolutely brilliant! What a nice chappy Matthew Pinsent is too. Now he really did have something to boast about whereas John Hurt was so the completely opposite and totally miffed he was just a commoner.

Well done Matthew Pinsent on a very interesting final show. It's amazing how our perspective on all this history changes when we find out we're connected somehow. I liked the way you could see him working out what the fate of his ancestor was as wife of Herny VIII - divorced, beheaded, died, divorced, BEHEADED, survived! Shock and a real sombre expression on his face. Good stock, me thinks HM Queen should kneel humbly before Matthew when next she meets him! Yeah right!

Take care all,
Lyn x

Ann... never mind Gt Grandpa... can't even find Grandpa lol.

Maddie... they traced him to William Howard, uncle of Catherine Howard (beheaded wife of Henry 8th) and from there to Edward 1st.... William the Conquerer and eventually... God! (All the kings claim to be directly descended from God)

Wasn't it great and yes I too thought they should have had gloves on when handling the old books and scrolls!!!!

How great to get that far back find you are related to Royalty.
I like what Joe said he can't even find his Gt grandad!!!

save the best til last - when is it on again

I missed the tale end of WDYTYA as the phone went - I saw up to the bit where him in the pic was a naturalist with a connection to the marques of ? then she said on a female side she could trace right back too ...... Phone rang then half hour phone call! Missed the end!

What a good show to finish the series on.Isn't Matthew Pinsent a nice chap?

It's nice when they get all that help though ,and all that travelling thrown in!
Brenda

lol Joe, do you think he's got his tree on here then? God that is ;)

Simply amazing. Just goes to show that you shouldn't ignore those female lines that marry into the 'family name'. They can be so easily ignored coz they can be so hard to track back, but so obviously worth it.

*goes back to trawling through my tree* best I've found yet was a schoolmaster back in the early 1800's Although admittedly at the other end of the scale I've only found one link to the workhouse from a sibling of a direct decendent

Realy enjoyed the programme tonight. Even OH was interested! Perhpas he'll be interested in my research now

Kath

Lol Joe!!

Tonights was great,

Caz x

Enjoyed that one I thought it was very interesting.

Does anyone feel as I do that when they're looking at valuable scrolls,papers etc. they should be wearing gloves?

Going to have withdrawl symptons now till the next series lol
Mau ;O)

and that was last in the Series. Shouldn't think that they will find another one to top that !! Descended from just about anyone of power. Meanwhile I can't even find my gr granpa ! while this guy got back to GOD !!! Have to look in Hot Matches again ........ under G.

I was flabbergasted when I found out Helen. I didn't believe it and had to double check everything.

I now know that millions of people share the same ancestry but it makes all history feel personal now.

Sue

Wow! now that one was good. And he seemed genuinely pleased, unlike some of the others.

If that had been me I would have been floating on air for weeks, if not years.

I've got one! My line leads back to Edward I via a different route.

Pity they programme showed the silly long scroll going back to mythology.

It is very possible to find royal ancestry (about 5% of the UK population are likely to be able to do so though many more are descended but can't prove it).

If they had gone into more detail they would have found a descent from Charlemagne via Matilda (wife of William the Conqueror) and then back as far as most genealogists believe is provable to Afranius Syragrius who was alive around 370 AD. No reliable documents survive to go further back.

Interesting programme this time I thought.

Sue

That was the best one this series. How would you feel finding out you were related to royalty?

Helen

Wow, not many of us can say we go back beyond the Magna Carta!

I did have to giggle when the scroll showed his direct descendency from God though lol

Yes Poor George MacPherson, poor lad. But doesn't it go to show the enormous sense of duty all those young men had, that the went through that?

Wow! that made a change from workhouses and slums!!