Genealogy Chat

Just doing some set design work,back later.

Sounds like Tina has enrolled as banker on Lead or no lead,allowing her to sing down the blower to our bearded presenter The computers used to track all the information and scores for these shows is also owned by Heather,Merry and myself. It's called 'Family Tree Breaker' Merry gets a retainer for back up facilities in case of pooter problems in our Norfolk HQ

PS - OC, please can I join too? Although, admittedly, it does not worry me unduly when people get it all wrong. I just sit and hug myself, singing quietly 'I know better than you do, I know better than you do'. Tina

How about 'House Doctor goes on Location, Location'. GR member is assisted in finding house that g-g-g grandma was born in, then de-renovation team move in and rip out all the plumbing, electrics, wallpaper etc and return it to the way it would have looked back in 1830. All this, of course, while the hapless owners are away on a short holiday. Imagine their surprise when they return and are ushered in wearing blindfolds, so as not to spoil the surprise. Just think of the tears of joy they will shed! Problem with all these ideas is that, if it really catches on, there will be nobody left on this board - we shall all be glued to our TV sets. Tina

Possible theme tunes 'Annie,i'm not your daddy' 'Billie Jean' 'Living next door to Alice' (special adoption remix) 'Emma' and 'It started with a kiss' (by Hot Chocolate) and anything by the Thompson Twins. (sorry i'm a child of the eighties music era)

Heather Ancestry want to know how much to sponsor the first three series?

And for the horror fans............. You watch as a hapless researcher locates a grave,digs up an ancestor and beats them silly in an effort to discover when they were born......... Beat the Ancestors and for the physchics discover your family past in.......... Most Hunted

Damn, cooker bell is dinging.

Live from Norwich,the best family show going,find the marriage reference to win BIG prizes,including fridge magnets. Mr and Mrs and Find your wills online,are you due some money Its Family Fortunes I just hope the audience figures are better than this thread!!

To get my full moneys worth out of the beard, we could provide a hapless contestent with 24 family trees submitted by members in the USA - and said to be hot matches with theirs. A whole hour of fun and laughter as they have to decide which of the trees containing Adam and Eve is a match - 'Real, not Real'?? And a block buster series of 'Lost' based on a party of ageing GR members flung together in Kew . '24' - Can Glen get to Norfolk, check out every Elmer in the county and back to Scotland before Mrs Glen notices his kilt is empty?

Let me join, and give the IGI a kick. I've seen the parish records, I know stuff they have about my family is incorrect, but will they correct it? WIll they 'eck!

Sorry, got called to water wilting plants. Whilst doing that Glen, I thought if Im going to let my beard grow for one show, what about another based on dubious IGI records submitted by LDS church members - 'Seal, no Seal'? I have to say there are endless opportunities for money er for education here Glen. The books, brilliant idea and I guess wed do merchandising to go with them. Ed the dead thread maker? With the follow up edition of 'Ill be back'.

Boy this is getting better. Just imagine,a weekly series with cliffhanger endings, (puts on theatrical deep deep voice) 'will she make it from the baptism in time to pop the next one out?All will be revealed next week in Who the hell were they?' Then there is the kids book range Heather and i have been writing,with cute and cuddly characters such as Bob the birth ref hunter Derek death index Mary the marriage maker and finally St George House Square,the district officer Oh the possibilities,could be a geographical education tool as well

Its not even as if I am asking anyone to suspend disbelief - its THERE, in the Parish Register... Oh, sorry, forgot - no need to buy certs, look at PRs, its all there on the Net in black and white. (But the death isn't....) Glen, can I offer up my Holden family as per IGI submitted tree for your first programme of 'Who the Hell were THEY?' My 4 x GGM had 44 children, married her own son, (five years before he was born) joined the Mormon Trek, where she married again (twice on the Trek), the third time to a man called Presley, which of course makes me related to Elvis. Whilst in the wagon train, she absented herself several times to nip back to dear old Blighty, give birth to a few more children, sometimes five in a year and no twins. She died in England but that didnt stop her rejoining the Trek, where no-one had missed her, cos she had also given birth seamlessly on the Trek as well, in her absence. In one spectacular year, she gave birth to two daughters, a day apart, walking 12 miles in one direction to have one baptised, coming home, dropping the next and walking the same day 8 miles in the other direction to have the other baptised - with the same name. Spose it stopped all the confusion - if you have 44 children, you'd better give them all the same names, then you wont forget any. Miracles never cease, cos she had her last child at the age of 69, two years after she had died. OC

Luckily I didn't hear that.......................... Glen.......a membership fee of minus £10, means Olde Crone gives me the £10 and not the other way about!! Merry

But Glen, just a word from the Master, look at Phoenix' thread re personalised family crests/coats of arms - now that could be big money for us. Oooh did I say that out loud? Luckily O.C.'s intellectual sounding heading for this thread may confuse the 'we dont want this to be a chat board' contingency.

I love it. All my years of sweating over this boy and suddenly my lifes work is coming to fruition but have I created a monster? (The way the menopause is treating me, I could do the presenter for Lead no Lead)

Don't stop me now!!! You trace the history of a has been celebrity via booking references taken from their agent.Of course sources of out-takes are used (censored returns) and references from their agent,staing which stage they died on! 'Who do you think you were?'

Heather, HEATHER where for art thou Heather. Got a whizzo idea for a TV Series,but need you on board,it's been signed up for 6 years worth or re-runs on UK TV Docs and UK TV Gold and it's all ours!!!! Plotline Take all internet cockups for family trees,add dry ageing presenter et voila!! 'It'll be alright on the net!' Good eh? Also a quiz show based format. You have 22 birth refs and no idea which one is any good,you discard them at random till only one is left. 'Lead or no lead' Really needs a presenter with a beard for that one though. Glen

please may I sign up too? My qualifications are... Another member of the family submitted a marriage, with all references, to the BMD site and is therefore now on Ancestry. Only problem is, this marriage didn't take place in this country! The reference was for a birth! Sue