Who Do You Think You Are Poll

Here are the results of our 17th Unlock the Past poll - Which "Who Do You Think You Are" TV programs have you watched? Three hundred and nine people voted casting a total of 916 votes. The summary shows a great interest in the series - particularly the British and Australian episodes. Over 80 percent of the voters had watched all or most of the Australian and British episodes - the percentage who have watched the US episodes is much lower so far at least.

 Program                      # votes       % voters

• Australian - all                   164             53.1
• Australian - most                89             28.8
• Australian - a few               33             10.7
• Australian - none                11              3.6
• British - all                        111            35.9
• British - most                   145             46.9
• British - a few                    37             12.0
• British - none                      9               2.9
• US - all                              91             29.4
• US - some                       135             43.7
• US - none                         58             18.8
• Other                               33             10.7

Other comments

• Have purchased many of the DVDs
• Missed some early UK ones. Need more details of doing hard yards and finding ordinary people.
• Australian and British far superior to US shows
• US episodes are too oriented towards the wow factor ie if no one in your family's history has it then your worthless family history is about so much more than this
• Love the British and Australian shows, the US ones thus far have been interesting but a bit drawn out and the constant re-capping after ad breaks is really annoying
• The American ones are not very good. Won't be watching any more of them. Love the Aussie and English episodes.
• US episodes have only just started in Australia - will end up seeing all of them
• In the US episodes the facts are restated after each commercial break throughout the programme, which I find somewhat annoying. Perhaps our US counterparts do not have the same attention span as Aussies and Brits??? ( I say this with tongue in cheek)
• Dislike the American episodes, so staged and fake reactions.
• Enjoy every programme, all so interesting
• Really enjoy the English ones, have a lot of the magaxxines as well
• Welsh episodes
• Good for attracting people to family history, however they don't show enough of the research required
• Can't get SBS
• Prefer the British show. US - only a few shown here so far.
• It's a pity the US episodes are being shown so late on Channel 9. They are not so interesting as the Australian/UK episodes, are repetitious and built around ad breaks.
• Try not to miss any as find them very interesting
• Information can be repeated too often. All the assistance gives an unrealistic idea of how hard it can be to research.
• One US episode watched
• Love the show!!!!!!!!!!
• Just love the show!!
• Fascinating information comes out of these programs and this information is really very helpful for one's own research.
• ALL FABULOUSLY EXCITING
• Wish the Australian ones were available online so when travelling can still watch
• Oz
• All different and most of them very good.
• All shows are well formed with very good guests. some are more interesting than others. The US type repeat what went before too much. However, long may it continue
• US episodes not as good as UK
• Don't like the U.S. ones, after the commercial break they go back over the findings of the past section which you have just watched. Love the others.
• Will they be repeated ??
• None as commercial stations a pain
• Not really interested USA- my family history is all UK based - except one who is French....
• some Canadian and South African on youtube

Where the voters came from

• Australia - 275
• Ireland - 1
• New Zealand - 11
• United States - 1
• Unknown - 21