Many readers have been watching Season 5 of Who Do You Think You Are?
If you are part of
this crowd (or have never caught an episode) you might find this interview by
Thomas MacEntee of Dan Bucatinsky, A Behind-The-Scenes Look at Who Do You Think You Are?, interesting.
“My interview with show co-producer Dan Bucatinsky, who also starred in the popular television series Scandal for which he won an Emmy, provided me with some interesting information
about the celebrities, the research methodology and how each episode is
created, from start to finish.”
I found this answer
particularly interesting and relevant since it highlights that in producing the
show they do run into the same issues that each of us has, that sometimes we
just get stuck in our research ...
“As for having boring ancestors?
“We’ve never turned people away for being boring. We have turned people away
because there is no story, no narrative to follow. A document trail runs dry or
we hit a wall or we can’t confirm a particular lead that we’re on. Like any
mystery, you know, digging into someone’s historical ancestry is about
following clues; it is what makes the show so fun to shoot because it is like a
scavenger hunt. But if suddenly a clue were to run dry, your story would stop. So
we do a lot of research at one time and once in a while someone’s story will
either hit a dead end or it will just be ten generations of potato farmers and
there’s nothing you can do about it.””
After
initially writing this, I also learned that the Genealogy Insider (Diane
Haddad) did an Interview With "Who Do You Think You Are?" Producer
Dan Bucatinsky and you can have FREE access to a Lisa Louise Cooke
Genealogy Gems Podcast where she also interviews Dan Bucatinsky – Episode
113 – An Interview with Dan Bucatinsky of WDYTYA?. These are all
great ways to find out more about what is behind the producing of this popular
show.
Editor’s Note: I have knowingly done research three times for this show.Two of the three times the research trail just went cold in the sense that we could learn a lot about the person and yet not details that make for watchable tv nor could we determine parents or enough details to do much with!.
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