I just watched Who Do You Think You Are with David Tennant. It's something my mum watches religiously but although I'm interested in our family tree I didn't think famous people's would be quite the same. David Tennant's wasn't that exciting until he traced his back to Londonderry. It was really nice to hear Northern Irish accents again, I've actually sort of missed hearing them. And they gave a history of Northern Ireland, most of which I knew bits of. I like hearing about how ordinary people lived, so I enjoyed that, it was interesting.

So I thought I'd talk a bit about my ancestors. My mum's been researching her family tree for years, with the help of her mother and me a bit. So we know quite a bit. It's what she's planning on spending lots of time doing now she's retired. My dad's family come from Germany, so we know as much as my grandad knew and that's it. Except I'm probably not related to Nic and one of my ancestors married a Battenburg, so I'm probably millionth in line to the throne.

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Before I give one of them back to the library tomorrow:

782 / 1,550 (50.5%)

Woohoo, I'm halfway through!

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