So Who Do You Think You Are?

[jinnyjoe]

I'm sure many of you have watched this series, shown on RTE from an Irish angle and the very brilliant series currently showing on BBC 1 on Mondays at 9pm. The information collated and revealed is startling to say the least. I particularly enjoyed Bruce Forysyths' and last Monday's with Hugh Quarshie. Has any poster traced their genology with shocking results and did you enjoy the shows as much as I did???

[TaxProtester]

The episode on Ryan Tubridy was sickening. He really has delusions of grandeur. He was desperately trying to find a link between himself and the Kennedys of America. None was found. Instead, he claimed and highlighted an extremely distant link to an english monarch.

[jinnyjoe]

The episode on Ryan Tubridy was hilarious. He really has delusions of grandeur. He was desperately trying to find a link between himself and the Kennedys of America. None was found. Instead, he claimed and highlighted an extremely distant link to an english monarch.

I know i had a great laugh from that show, it was ironic though his grandfather fighting in 1916 rising and then the "distant" links to the british monarchy. I'd say he enjoyed every minute of that revelation. Did you watch the BBC version, they are excellent!!! They are often repeated on "Watch" channel 109 on SKY. Great viewing.

[C. Flower]

I know i had a great laugh from that show, it was ironic though his grandfather fighting in 1916 rising and then the "distant" links to the british monarchy. I'd say he enjoyed every minute of that revelation. Did you watch the BBC version, they are excellent!!! They are often repeated on "Watch" channel 109 on SKY. Great viewing.

They say that nearly all of us are descended from Ghengis Khan.

[jinnyjoe]

They say that nearly all of us are descended from Ghengis Khan.

Have to say I don't look a bit like him.

[TaxProtester]

They say that nearly all of us are descended from Ghengis Khan.

Thats probably why most people are selfish, dishonest and callous.

Maybe we need to breed out the bad genes to create a better world.

[TotalMayhem]

Who am I: and if so, how many?

nice read by the way.

[Sidewinder]

We already knew the fascinating tale of me great-great-grandfather - his da was Big House grandee in south Donegal, Grand High Wizard Poobah of local Lodge etc - who fell in love with a Fenian lassie, got disowned by his da, and promptly became a staunch Republican. But then a trawl through the geneology records also uncovered a wide and colourful range of characters in generations past including a radical evangelical Presbyterian Minister in north Donegal, various mad inventors, and for some (possibly related!) reason a surprising number of Yorkshiremen marrying into various branches all over the shop.

The nonconformist genes run deep

[Aspro]

Thats probably why most people are selfish, dishonest and callous.

Maybe we need to breed out the bad genes to create a better world.

Disagree fundamentally. If even to judge by another thread on Ireland's charitable donations per capita, it's obvious most people are altruistic and empathetic. When people act selfishly it's generally because they're forced to compete for artificially scarce resources. In the history of human society it has been the ability to cooperate that has pushed society and culture forward.
http://www.cooperationcommons.com/node/346

[jinnyjoe]

We already knew the fascinating tale of me great-great-grandfather - his da was Big House grandee in south Donegal, Grand High Wizard Poobah of local Lodge etc - who fell in love with a Fenian lassie, got disowned by his da, and promptly became a staunch Republican. But then a trawl through the geneology records also uncovered a wide and colourful range of characters in generations past including a radical evangelical Presbyterian Minister in north Donegal, various mad inventors, and for some (possibly related!) reason a surprising number of Yorkshiremen marrying into various branches all over the shop.

The nonconformist genes run deep

What a wonderful colourful family you have sidewinder, I'd say you got a great kick revealing all those characters, good dinner conversation as well.

[Teu]

Thats probably why most people are selfish, dishonest and callous.
Maybe we need to breed out the bad genes to create a better world.

Lighten up my wanna be tax protesting pal. Just accept you have to pay your taxes and you will feel a lot calmer . . . .

[Slim Buddha]

We already knew the fascinating tale of me great-great-grandfather - his da was Big House grandee in south Donegal, Grand High Wizard Poobah of local Lodge etc - who fell in love with a Fenian lassie, got disowned by his da, and promptly became a staunch Republican. But then a trawl through the geneology records also uncovered a wide and colourful range of characters in generations past including a radical evangelical Presbyterian Minister in north Donegal, various mad inventors, and for some (possibly related!) reason a surprising number of Yorkshiremen marrying into various branches all over the shop.

The nonconformist genes run deep

Interesting stuff, Sidewinder, and nobody can accuse you of not maintaining a long-established non-comformist family tradition.

[MPB]

Lighten up my wanna be tax protesting pal. Just accept you have to say your taxes and you will feel a lot calmer . . . .

Going to be a cheap year for us and a very expensive one for FF if all we have to do is say " your taxes. "

Good man Teu. You are right, I feel better already.

[C. Flower]

Alice Roberts is on BBC1 at the moment talking about human migration - how the world was populated by migration of a handful of African families.

The style of these talking heads "we'll make this academic stuff interesting if it kills us" programmes is irritating, but there are nuggets of wonderful stuff in her programmes and she uses a mixture of archaeology and genetics to map out our progress as a species around the globe.

The programme now is on how humans arrived in Australia 10s of thousands of years ago.

[jinnyjoe]

Alice Roberts is on BBC1 at the moment talking about human migration - how the world was populated by migration of a handful of African families.

The style of these talking heads "we'll make this academic stuff interesting if it kills us" programmes is irritating, but there are nuggets of wonderful stuff in her programmes and she uses a mixture of archaeology and genetics to map out our progress as a species around the globe.

The programme now is on how humans arrived in Australia 10s of thousands of years ago.

Thanks C I'll try catch that programme when it's on next but honestly much prefer the lighter hearted ones, highly entertaining.