Comments on: Who Do You Think You Are? – Spike Lee’s slave roots http://blogs.ancestry.com/uk/2011/02/23/who-do-you-think-you-are-spike-lees-slave-roots/ The official Ancestry.co.uk blog Wed, 24 Apr 2013 18:23:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Is this the next nation we are going to be a true friend to? Perhaps Labor can devise a way to sell them slaves as well as uranium | ikners.com http://blogs.ancestry.com/uk/2011/02/23/who-do-you-think-you-are-spike-lees-slave-roots/#comment-1960 Is this the next nation we are going to be a true friend to? Perhaps Labor can devise a way to sell them slaves as well as uranium | ikners.com Tue, 15 Nov 2011 22:12:00 +0000 http://blogs.ancestry.com/uk/?p=1785#comment-1960 [...] Who Do You Think You Are? – Spike Lee’s slave roots (blogs.ancestry.com) [...] [...] Who Do You Think You Are? – Spike Lee’s slave roots (blogs.ancestry.com) [...]

]]> By: Chris R http://blogs.ancestry.com/uk/2011/02/23/who-do-you-think-you-are-spike-lees-slave-roots/#comment-818 Chris R Wed, 23 Feb 2011 22:20:46 +0000 http://blogs.ancestry.com/uk/?p=1785#comment-818 "In the UK, we’re used to seeing WDYTYA? celebrities focus on one ancestor, or a small group" Really? I seem to remember Boris following his ancestry through half the royal families of Europe. And what about Matthew Pinsent - tracing his ancestry back to Katherine Howard, and from there to William the Conqueror? Actually many of the UK episodes go back quite a long way. It's the US ones that don't. In fact I seem to remember a UK celebrity who not only traced back to the slaves, but went on from there to find out which part of Africa they came from! I think this article is an attempt to 'big up' the US series - which is a shadow of the UK one. There is far too much of the celebrities spouting homespun philosophy and not enough actual history - but then the US only has about two hundred years of that, don't they? “In the UK, we’re used to seeing WDYTYA? celebrities focus on one ancestor, or a small group”

Really? I seem to remember Boris following his ancestry through half the royal families of Europe. And what about Matthew Pinsent – tracing his ancestry back to Katherine Howard, and from there to William the Conqueror? Actually many of the UK episodes go back quite a long way. It’s the US ones that don’t. In fact I seem to remember a UK celebrity who not only traced back to the slaves, but went on from there to find out which part of Africa they came from! I think this article is an attempt to ‘big up’ the US series – which is a shadow of the UK one. There is far too much of the celebrities spouting homespun philosophy and not enough actual history – but then the US only has about two hundred years of that, don’t they?

]]> By: Roselyn http://blogs.ancestry.com/uk/2011/02/23/who-do-you-think-you-are-spike-lees-slave-roots/#comment-817 Roselyn Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:19:43 +0000 http://blogs.ancestry.com/uk/?p=1785#comment-817 Although it is nice to see the ancestry of celebs, it would also be great if the option was also open to the general pubic. There are many like myself who's has spent many, many years researching BUT have been hampered by the like of finance and resources. Surely, it is easy enough to set that up? We would really feel like "Millionairs" then?!! Although it is nice to see the ancestry of celebs, it would also be great if the option was also open to the general pubic. There are many like myself who’s has spent many, many years researching BUT have been hampered by the like of finance and resources. Surely, it is easy enough to set that up? We would really feel like “Millionairs” then?!!

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