Who Do You Think You Are - Una Stubbs 24th Jul

[Shona]

Blimey, Merry - that article is dreadful.

[Margaret in Burton]

Is anyone going to contact The Genealogist to point out their error?

[Merry]

Originally Posted by Margaret in Burton

Is anyone going to contact The Genealogist to point out their error?

Well, I'm not because they barred me from their site some years ago!

Shona, I hadn't read much of the article when I posted on here. I've just read the rest and you are right - probably one of the worst FH articles I've ever read, for a multitude of reasons!!

[Margaret in Burton]

I've never used The Genealogist site at all, too many horror stories about it.

[Vicwinann]

Originally Posted by Margaret in Burton

Una Stubbs really irritated me.

Ditto Margaret, I found her squishiness very annoying and overdone.
Victoria

[Margaret in Burton]

Originally Posted by Vicwinann

Ditto Margaret, I found her squishiness very annoying and overdone.
Victoria

Someone on Facebook described her voice as a little girl voice. She doesn't talk like that when she's acting.

[Piwacket]

Originally Posted by Vicwinann

Ditto Margaret, I found her squishiness very annoying and overdone.
Victoria

I thought that too, which surprised me as I remember her being particularly feisty in 'Til Death'. But I'd seen her a few weeks ago being interviewed and thought she'd perhaps gone a bit eccentric- with her woolly hat and odd gait.

I enjoyed it - but - it was all a bit pat - no real research shown to try to prove to the viewer (and her) that the facts were correct; and her innocent ooohs & ahhhs grated, especially about things like ''Oh no father -aww!'' and what a Workhouse was. So that seemed to underline that she is perhaps a bit eccentric ..... but there were other occasions where she seemed very sensible. I knew little about her life other than what she'd acted in, whether she was maybe just a lonely soul

so when the repeat came on last night I watched some of it again - and then looked at her Biography.

She's been around the Acting profession for decades, married twice - once to (the lovely) Peter Gilmore (Onedin Line) and then to Nicky Henson (a very old Theatrical family) and has three children - so feel a bit as though I have been duped

Was all that wide-eyed innocence and eccentric behaviour just an act

[Ann from Sussex]

The three sons were mentioned at the beginning of the programme Dorothy and we saw her talking to two of them about not knowing anything of her father's side.

She made me stop and think when she said that she now loved the relations she was learning about. I suddenly realised that, in all the years I've been researching my family and with all the people I've discovered whose existence I never knew of before, I can honestly say that I have never felt "love" for any of them. Fascination and intense interest but definitely not love. I reserve that for the relatives I have known. I felt that statement was a measure of the hyperbole Una Stubbs brought to the exercise and it didn't ring true to me. How does anyone else feel on the subject?

[Piwacket]

Ooh Ann I didn't register the bit about her talking to her sons

I agree about her ''love them all'' Fascination and curiosity - yes, but that's it.

[Shona]

Una is a luvvie, darling.