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    GROW YOUR FAMILY TREE

    Oct 19, 2021 6 minutes

    We always get so excited here at WDYTYA? Magazine when a new series of our favourite TV programme approaches. Which celebrities will be featured? What stories will unfold? Since 2004, WDYTYA? has inspired a generation of viewers to uncover their own family history. The lead genealogists for WDYTYA?, Sara Khan and Laura Berry, have both worked on the programme for over 10 years now on and off. We caught up with Laura and Sara to ask them if they could share some advice for new entrants to this wonderful hobby. I began by asking what their first steps are when researching a new celebrity.

    “The first thing we do is that one or more of us will go with someone from the production team to visit the celebrity and find out what they already know about their family history, and ask them who else in the family we need to talk to,” says Laura.

    “We also ask the celebrity to talk about their motivations and interests, because it’s

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