Who Do You Think You Are - Tamzin Outhwaite 21st Aug

[Merry]

I quite enjoyed that episode. I was shocked that Tamzin appeared not to know that Italy sided with Germany in WW2, especially considering her FH.

I also wondered why Adelmo didn't get himself naturalized so save being interned, but I suppose he would have needed to have already done that before the war started for it to count (and he might have needed to close the shop for a day to do it!).

Am I correct in thinking, firstly Tamzin sounded as if she had just learned something new when she was told her great-grandfather was from Barga, yet whilst they were in Barga she said she had been there many times. It seems unlikely she didn't know her family came from Barga, even if she didn't previously know much about them.

I thought they could have told Tamzin that it was commonplace in the past for relatives to miss family weddings, but I suppose it made for a better story to leave her looking a bit stunned!

I was bothered by the apparent fact that between arriving in Fishburn in the early 20s and 1936 when son Henry died, Adelmo didn't make enough money to buy his son a gravestone, but by the end of the 1950s (with the war, interment and rationing in between etc) he was the richest man in Fishburn and was busy buying properties for his children and giving the town the field for the playground. Can that amount of money be made from ice cream or did he have other business interests?