Collecting random bits of genealogy news.
Celebrity Genealogy Stories
Ian Bell has an article in The Herald (UK) covering the hit BBC series ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ and discusses some of the things that Stephen Fry, the English comedian, learned about his family through the course of the show. ‘Who Do You Think You Are?‘ focuses on genealogy and helps people with their family history.
The Herald (UK) has published a review of the Family History/Genealogy-oriented BBC series, Who Do You Think You Are?:
Paxman weeps: an event unprecedented in the history of the BBC. It is, though, one of the strange effects of Who Do You Think You Are? Even emotional bluffers, the hard men of news and current affairs, find their defences inadequate when their forebears rise to greet them.
If and when it’s available in the US, or is shown on BBC America, I hope to catch a few episodes, sounds like a very interesting TV show.
The Sunday Mail (sundaymail.co.uk) has news of the actor Hugh Grant’s genealogy. According to the article, it was suprising for genealogist Anthony Adolph to discover that Grant (full name: Hugh John Mungo Grant) had Scottish ancestry.
The Global Gazette (Canada) has news of a new TV show, Ancestors in the Attic, from History Television. If you are a Canadian (I believe it’s limited to Canadians, although they mention “Canadian connection” so I maybe mistaken), and you can sum up your genealogy story/mystery in 500 words or less, they want to hear from you.
Ancestry.com had these Harry Potter-related tidbits in their monthly update (advertising the new census information from the UK that has just recently become available)