From: "Brian Binns" <bnbinns@gmail.com> > I won't spoil it for those who have yet to view it - especially our overseas > friends - but last night's episode of WDYTYO featuring Leicester's Gary > Lineker was very interesting. As I said when I first posted last Monday, I > sent it to both the Leics list and the Notts list because I had come across > the surname Lineker in Nottingham quite often. And there it was on Gary's > tree - the Lineker side had indeed moved from Nottingham - Basford to be > accurate - to Leicester. The shot of that side of his printed tree was only > on the screen for a few moments as the programme proceeded to concentrate on > Gary' s grandmother's side of the family. The research also highlighted what > a wonderful source of information the online searchable Newspaper sites are > for fleshing out your tree. I know they've added a lot ot my knowledge of my > ancestors. > > > > Brian Binns< I agree with Brian, particularly his comment about what a marvellous source of online information the newspaper websites are. The British Newspaper Archive is utterly brilliant and worth every penny of the year's subscription! One of my lectures is about researching from newspapers and I always make the point that you should never assume that your ancestors had to be of the "great and the good" to appear in a newspaper. I point out in my talk that if they did anything at all of interest in their community they were almost bound to have what Andy Warhol called their "15 minutes of fame" and have it reported in print, whether it was in the BMD announcements - "hatched, matched and despatched" as we in the newspaper business called it - or if your ancestor belonged to a club, institution or sports club, was in the army or navy, committed a crime, got murdered or killed in some messy way, belonged to a local council, trade union or some other body, and a myriad other things, they are almost bound to have appeared in a newspaper. In my own researches I came across a report of a great-great-uncle who won second prize in a comic vocal contest in Bradford in the 1870s singing a song about a milkmen and appearing in costume - not exactly world-shattering news but fascinating to me! I also found a paragraph about a great-great-grandfather, a police officer in Scarborough who kept hens in his spare time and one of them had laid a monster egg!!! The odd thing was that while he was in Scarborough, the report was in a newspaper in Leicester, 120 miles away. I have often noticed this with Victorian newspapers, i.e. that reports of an incident in one place often figured in papers at the other end of the country and, though I spent over 40 years in the newspaper business myself, I have never quite fathomed out how this happened in the days before wireless telegraph and the internet! -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE

Mind you last night's WDYTYA (I got it wrong in my initial post!!) did contain a glaring error. Gary was perusing an 1841 entry, oddly enough on the set of Match of the Day, when he commented that the male descendant shown as aged 50 was much older that his wife, shown as 40. There was no "expert" around to correct him. I found some very interesting newspaper stories about my grandfather which I have put together into a talk that I am premiering in November! In other words, I haven't done the talk yet - and it's my first time doing one. I also unearthed a small piece of social history which I will share with this list at some time, but not before the talks so as not to spoil it for those who are attending. Brian Binns -----Original Message----- From: leicestershire-plus-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:leicestershire-plus-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of roy.stockdill@btinternet.com Sent: 22 August 2013 10:55 To: leicestershire-plus@rootsweb.com; nottsgen@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [LEI] [NTT] Who do you think you are? From: "Brian Binns" <bnbinns@gmail.com> > I won't spoil it for those who have yet to view it - especially our > overseas friends - but last night's episode of WDYTYO featuring > Leicester's Gary Lineker was very interesting. As I said when I first > posted last Monday, I sent it to both the Leics list and the Notts > list because I had come across the surname Lineker in Nottingham quite > often. And there it was on Gary's tree - the Lineker side had indeed > moved from Nottingham - Basford to be accurate - to Leicester. The > shot of that side of his printed tree was only on the screen for a few > moments as the programme proceeded to concentrate on Gary' s > grandmother's side of the family. The research also highlighted what a > wonderful source of information the online searchable Newspaper sites > are for fleshing out your tree. I know they've added a lot ot my knowledge of my ancestors. > > > > Brian Binns< I agree with Brian, particularly his comment about what a marvellous source of online information the newspaper websites are. The British Newspaper Archive is utterly brilliant and worth every penny of the year's subscription! One of my lectures is about researching from newspapers and I always make the point that you should never assume that your ancestors had to be of the "great and the good" to appear in a newspaper. I point out in my talk that if they did anything at all of interest in their community they were almost bound to have what Andy Warhol called their "15 minutes of fame" and have it reported in print, whether it was in the BMD announcements - "hatched, matched and despatched" as we in the newspaper business called it - or if your ancestor belonged to a club, institution or sports club, was in the army or navy, committed a crime, got murdered or killed in some messy way, belonged to a local council, trade union or some other body, and a myriad other things, they are almost bound to have appeared in a newspaper. In my own researches I came across a report of a great-great-uncle who won second prize in a comic vocal contest in Bradford in the 1870s singing a song about a milkmen and appearing in costume - not exactly world-shattering news but fascinating to me! I also found a paragraph about a great-great-grandfather, a police officer in Scarborough who kept hens in his spare time and one of them had laid a monster egg!!! The odd thing was that while he was in Scarborough, the report was in a newspaper in Leicester, 120 miles away. I have often noticed this with Victorian newspapers, i.e. that reports of an incident in one place often figured in papers at the other end of the country and, though I spent over 40 years in the newspaper business myself, I have never quite fathomed out how this happened in the days before wireless telegraph and the internet! -- Roy Stockdill Genealogical researcher, writer & lecturer Famous family trees blog: http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/ "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about." OSCAR WILDE ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LEICESTERSHIRE-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message