Who Do You Think You Are - Jodie Whittaker 12th Oct

[ElizabethHerts]

Originally Posted by Olde Crone

What an annoying woman!

I agree with Kate, never seen anyone so pleased to see a death certificate.

The usual assumptions - must have been her employer who did her wrong. Must have abandoned the child to her parents because he was with them on one night in ten years.

I didn't enjoy this one very much!

OC

OC, the first thing that I wanted to post was why would she assume that Walter and his mother didn't see each other or ever live together on the evidence of a couple of census entries. Also, his was probably close to his grandmother.

[Merry]

I've not watched WDYTYA for many years, mainly because it would make me so mad that when the celeb made assumptions about their ancestors, through a lack of understanding of the records, they were rarely given any alternative by the supposed expert. Grrrrr!!

[Guinevere]

I fell asleep during the sword waving. Pointless filler. *grumble*

Quite dull, really.

I loathe Walliams so not sure I'll be able to watch him.

[Olde Crone]

Oooh Gwynne, perhaps it was the sword waving that some viewers might find upsetting, lol.

OC

[Ann from Sussex]

Oh, the sword waving bit really annoyed me, mainly because we were treated to the usual (seemingly obligatory) WDYTYA politically correct shuddering and muttering about what terrible things our ancestors did, applying modern day thinking to an earlier age.

She really blackened the poor old employer's name didn't she, practically saying he was a paedophile without any evidence whatsoever. I hope none of his descendants were watching!

[vita]

I felt the same about employer, & I actually have a case of that happening in my family!

Why would she jump to that conclusion? She cited the age difference - nothing unusual

in that, I'd say.

Also found parts of it quite boring - livened up a bit with the Auckland siide though.

[Ann from Sussex]

Also found parts of it quite boring - livened up a bit with the Auckland siide though.

Lol, that was when I fell asleep! I thought that was boring and I always find WW1 ancestors on WDYTYA boring too. All in all it didn't have a lot going for it for me!