Wednesday 19th August - Who do you think you are?

Living we New Zealand, we sometimes get the opportunitiy to see other versions of British TV programmes. We are currently watching a series of the Australian version of 'Who do you think you are?'

Australians seem to have a fascination with their families criminal past and seem to deify criminal forebears. We saw an example a couple of weeks ago where an Aussie actor was on the show searching for his roots. He found that he had 2 sets of Irish forefathers. One from Ulster turned out to have done well in Australia and been one of the most wealthy families in Australia at the start of the last century.

The actor chose to research the other branch of his family and discovered that his relative had been transported to Australia as a criminal rather than be executed in his native Munster. His reaction was amazing!

Australians must be the only people in the world who treat their criminal forebears as 'royalty'!