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My Famous Family

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United Kingdom

How it feels

A TV show where everyday people discover they are related to famous historical figures. Hosts Bill Oddie and Guy de la Bédoyère help trace the family trees of ordinary members of the public to ancestors like Queen Victoria or Florence Nightingale.

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What happens

My Famous Family is a British television programme on genealogy, co-hosted by Bill Oddie and Guy de la Bédoyère. Each episode shows an ordinary member of the public with a famous ancestor: Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale, George Stephenson, Lawrence of Arabia, or the Duke of Wellington. It was broadcast in 2007 on the UKTV History channel (now called Yesterday), one of the UKTV channels. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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