--- On Wed, 15/8/12, Nivard Ovington <ovington1@sky.com> wrote: From: Nivard Ovington <ovington1@sky.com> Subject: Re: [YORKSGEN] wdytya and the errors creeping into the program To: yorksgen@rootsweb.com Date: Wednesday, 15 August, 2012, 23:26 >Hi Nita >I am quite sure they would have delved deeper into the interesting family she comes from, but there is only one hour to squeeze everything in and they do have to make it flow and entertaining >I suspect Samantha got to know a lot more than we did< Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) I have to agree with Nivard. Having myself taken part in a future programme (it's the one featuring John Bishop, the stand-up comic), I endorse what he says. The team start off by researching a particular line and if in the course of this something more interesting comes along they switch to that. I can't give too much away but this is what happened in the case of John Bishop. Moreover, we filmed for something like 3 hours at the SoG and I doubt I will appear for more than about 10 seconds! I had a chat with the producer beforehand and told him that some people in our world were unhappy that they sometimesmake it look all too easy. He agreed with me but the plain fact is that it's supposed to be entertainment for the mass viewing audience and not a specialist series for the likes of us. Showing someone waiting 4 or 5 days for a birth or marriage certificate to arrive wouldn't exactly make for rivetting television! Roy Stockdill Genealogist, writer & lecturer http://blog.findmypast.co.uk/tag/roy-stockdill/
[snip] Showing someone waiting 4 or 5 days for a birth or marriage certificate to arrive wouldn't exactly make for rivetting television! Roy Stockdill [/snip] And wouldn't we all like to turn up at an archive and an expert is there waiting for us who has already found all the relevant references for us to copy down! Of course, as Roy says, it all has to flow and be entertaining, and it does just that, and has raised the general awareness throughout the population for our passion. Perhaps the FFHS could inform us if membership numbers (across all member societies) over the last 10 years have risen, fallen, stayed the same?? Colin