Here are the people featured in Series 1 from 2004. Went out on BBC2.
Bill Oddie
I remember this being a very powerful starter for the series. They explored his mother's mental illness and the hardship the family endured.
Amanda Redman
She was introduced to a relative (I recall there may have been bigamy or a 'woman in every port') who looked so like Amanda.
Sue Johnston
I think her story was connected to the railways.
Jeremy Clarkson
There was a great quote about being the product of hundreds of years of interbreeding and he wasn't happy that a relative hadn't patented the Kilner jar.
Ian Hislop
Lots of First World War stuff (he's still doing that subject).
Moira Stuart
I was fascinated by the black students at Edinburgh University, but I recall that I felt she was rather cold.
David Baddiel
Very engaging and full of twists and turns - the questions over who was his mother's father?
Lesley Garrett
Now, wasn't there some awful mining tragedy?
Meera Syal
I remember her in a Hindu temple as they read out her family tree.
Vic Reeves
Jim Moir's bigamist ancestor.
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