Can You Dig It?
In Aberdeen this morning and a discussion about our new family history series Digging Up Your Roots. The series is attracting hundreds of calls and questions from listeners and I congratulated the presenter Claire White and her camera-shy producer Rhona Brudenell.
I suggested that Claire had a strong case for the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio Scotland quote of the year (so far) when she proclaimed "who would have thought that dead relatives could be so much fun!"
It was interesting hearing what's being planned for the next four programmes. Apparently it's much easier to research family histories in Scotland compared with England and future programmes will look at Asian and Australian records too.
Meanwhile Claire and Rhona took me aside to give me all sorts of macabre details about the skeletons they've found in various family cupboards. They had tales of murder, witchcraft and scandal.
So much for happy families!
