Alistair McGowan - Who Do You Think You Are?

Yesterday, i watched Alistair McGowan's Anglo Indian story on Who Do You Think You Are? and i have to say that it was great! and very similar indeed to my own story. I've seen quite a lot of the WDYTYA shows on the tv but this is the first time that i actually bought one of their dvds to watch at home. A friend of mine had told me about the show last week - picture a noisy little art gallery in a Surry Hills garage in Sydney, with Argentinian wine, latin music, paintings, and chatting about family tree research - chatting about Alistair. Imagine my surprise when said show ends up being the very dvd that i purchased! Well, who'd have thunk it.

Anyway, back to Alistair. I have to say, searching his face, he doesn't look like your typical Anglo Indian but then again ... hmmm, i don't know, something about the eyes ... indefinable, it's there, that mysterious Anglo Indian quality that you just can't put your finger on. Each time i look at his photograph, i'm half expecting him to give a little head wiggle ... "yes yes yes, Celeste, i am understanding what you are thinking" he mumbles "come, let's go for a nice roti ... i know a place ... are you veg or non veg?". Like Alistair, my family were also in a sort whimsical and innocent denial about our Indian-ness ... oh, our brown skin? well, um, there was a Portuguese lady somewhere in our tree, well, apparently so, somewhere, sometime, don't know who she was though ... ahem. Like Alistair, an Indian connection that we expected to find around 1890 ended up in the 1700s! Unlike Alistair though, in several lines of my family tree, British soldiers travelled to India and settled in the 1700s ... maybe his family did too, anyway, I could totally relate to his story every step of the way, it was almost like he was telling my own story. Great show! Lots of laughs. Thank you Alistair :)