Another series starts next week on BBC1, first up I believe is Natasha Kaplinsky.

From reviews I have seen seems to be a very moving story.

I watch and record them all.

I watched all of the last series...found them fascinating...

A lot of the stories are good and also the way they do some of the research is very interesting.

I think I missed some of these a month or so ago while I was on holiday. Somebody told me they did one on Nicky Campbell. Is this true? If so did they do anybody else?

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It was a one off one to coincide with the BBC's adoption week.

It was about his search to find out about his adoptive parents I believe rather than his "real" parents.

Think I've got it round the right way!

They are bound to repeat it on one of the satellite channels.

BBC - Press Office - Nicky Campbell launches the Family Wanted campaign

Theres the link about it

If I had a complaint about the programme, and I don't really, it's that they make it look so easy to trace families. As those of us who enjoy this fetish know, it's not always that easy.
Having said that, it's most enjoyable.

You are so right.

If only, how lovely to walk into places and have the original documents given to you to look at and certificates just handed to you from the FRC.

Did you watch that Heir Hunters programme a couple of months back.

Again it made things seem fairly easy, but towards the end of them it transpired it took around 18 months to put the family tree together and claim the inheritance.

I found that as I got less and less interested in the 'trainspotting' name and date collecting and far more interested in the life stories for example why did they move, why did she die so young so far from home and yes it was spooky walking past a row of nailers cottages in the middle of fields and realizing my 3rd GGM lived there, her sister nextdoor and parents on the end. Then to see the BMW parked outside now and the motorway across the valley and wondering what they would make of it.

Blimey sentimentality most unlike me!

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You are right, I found out that my gt.grandfather had been put into the workhouse aged 5.

His two sisters, who I had no idea about until I saw an army document of his, were both put into a fairly nice orphanage, aged 3 and 4.

Their mother had died when the youngest was about 18 months, the father had eventually remarried and died just a few months later.

The stepmother couldn't/wouldn't keep them and so the parish arranged for them to be taken into the institutions.

I couldn't believe when I read the orphanage wouldn't take the boy as the certs showed that he was born around 7 months after the marriage, therefore "not suitable!.

How absolutely horrendous a little boy of 5.

He stayed in the workhouse until he was 14, went back to his home village for a time then joined the Coldstream Guards. He was in for 10 years then pensioned out with ill health and unfortunately died in 1916 aged 42.

He married around 1899 and had three boys.