Who Do You Think You Are?

Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine is a companion to the BBC series and provides valuable advice on how to trace your family history.

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Diane Morgan discovers her forebear was "a bit of a hussy" on Who Do You Think You Are?

2 weeks ago | whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com | Rosemary Collins

Actor and comedian Diane Morgan, best known for playing ill-informed TV interviewer Philomena Cunk, was born on 5 October 1975 in Farnworth in Bolton. At the start of her episode of Who Do You Think You Are?, she jokes that she “never thought in a million years” she’d be invited to be on the family history programme after making fun of it on her series Mandy.
Your chance to nominate your inspiring female ancestor for a blue plaque

3 weeks ago | whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com | Rosemary Collins

Members of the public are being invited to nominate women in their family to be commemorated with England’s iconic blue plaques. Leading family history website Ancestry has partnered with Historic England for this year’s National Blue Plaque Scheme. Historic England took over responsibility for the Blue Plaque Scheme across England in 2023. As of 2023, only 15% of blue plaques in London commemorated women.
Get the perfect Father’s Day present with this incredible DNA test offer

3 weeks ago | whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com | Rosemary Collins

Leading family history company Ancestry has an unmissable offer on its DNA tests to celebrate Father’s Day on 15 June. Ancestry’s DNA test, which allows users to find family matches in a database of over 21 million people and receive estimates of their ethnic ancestry, is on sale for £49 versus a standard price of £79.
Did your ancestor take part in a riot against the closure of an abbey in Kent?

3 weeks ago | whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com | Rosemary Collins

English Heritage is hoping to trace the descendants of 31 men who took part in a riot against the closure of an abbey 500 years ago. More than a decade prior to the Dissolution of Monasteries, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey had already started suppressing some of England’s smaller monasteries to fund planned new colleges at Oxford and Ipswich. In 1525 he ordered the closure of Bayham Abbey, near Tunbridge Wells in Kent. Incensed, local people turned to violence in support of their abbey.
Will Young discovers his "very, very remarkable" grandfather's ordeal in the 'Great Escape' prison camp

3 weeks ago | whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com | Rosemary Collins

Pop star and actor Will Young was born on 20 January 1979 in Wokingham. At the start of his episode of Who Do You Think You Are?, he says he never knew his paternal grandfather Digby Young, who died before Will was born. Will thinks he was a POW in the Second World War. “I’ve got more and more excited by this,” he says. “I think that’s ‘cause I know nothing. I wonder who these people are.”To start, Will visits his Aunt Wiggy.
Fred Sirieix discovers his grandparents' 'extraordinary' WW2 love story on Who Do You Think You Are?

1 month ago | whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com | Rosemary Collins

First Dates maître d' Fred Sirieix was born on 27 January 1972 in Limoges, France. He’s lived in Britain since he was 20 and calls both countries home. Now, he’s returning to France to trace his family history on Who Do You Think You Are? Visiting his parents, he looks at an old photograph of his grandparents, known as Pépé and Mémé. The family story is that Pépé was in a forced labour camp in Burgundy in the Second World War where he met Mémé.
US biotechnology company to purchase 23andMe

1 month ago | whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com | Rosemary Collins

Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, a leading US human genetics and biotechnology company, has announced that it will purchase troubled DNA testing company 23andMe for $256 million. 23andMe announced it was filing for bankruptcy in March. The company had seen its share price plummet since it went public in February 2021. It also suffered a major data breach in October 2023, when hackers breached about 14,000 customers’ accounts, gaining access to the data of 6.9 million people.
Titanic: Our Secret Histories: What is it, and when is it on TV?

1 month ago | whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com | Rosemary Collins

Titanic: Our Secret Histories is a new documentary telling the stories of the passengers and crew who perished and survived in the 1912 sinking of the Titanic. Titanic: Our Secret Histories will air on Channel 4 on Saturday 18 May 2025 from 8pm to 9pm. On 15 April 1912 RMS Titanic, a British ocean liner thought to be ‘unsinkable’, sank in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean on her maiden voyage.
From Dunkirk to slavery, Layton Williams discovers stories of courage and survival in his family tree

1 month ago | whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com | Rosemary Collins

Actor, singer and dancer Layton Williams was born on 13 September 1994 in Bury, Greater Manchester. Aged 12, he moved to London to star in Billy Elliot the Musical. “Moving to London at the age of 12, I loved it,” he says. “I started to meet people that were like me. All I’ve known is being gay as a negative thing, and all of a sudden this new world opened up to me.
"It sounds like I want him to be shipwrecked!" Ross Kemp discovers the truth about his great grandfather's extraordinary life on Who Do You Think You Are? | Who Do You Think You Are Magazine

1 month ago | whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com | Rosemary Collins

EastEnders actor and documentary presenter Ross Kemp was born on 21 July 1964 in Essex. At the start of his episode of Who Do You Think You Are?, he says he’s particularly interested in finding out about his great grandfather ‘Pop’: “The big story was always that he was shipwrecked at least twice during his career as a merchant seaman, and I’d like to find out if that’s true.”Ross goes to visit his parents. His mother Jean reminisces about Pop, her grandfather.