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I'm not who I thought I was!
Do you know anything about your ancestors? In Britain and other English-speaking countries, people take a lot of interest in their origins, and finding out_____1_______and writing up your family history – complete with family tree – has become a real hobby. Many Americans, Australians, Canadians and people from other former British colonies come to Britain to look up their family records and to discover where their ancestors lived and_____2_____they did before they emigrated. There are many websites which can help them trace their family history and even professional researchers who will scour official records and documents and build______3_______a picture of people who lived and died hundres of years ago.
The BBC television programme Who Do You Think You Are? Traces the family history of well-known personalities. Each programme begins____4_______the celebrities saying what they know about their ancestors, and what is interesting in the fact_____5_____in the course of the programme a good number of them discover that they were completely wrong. Many are surprised and even shocked by their family history. ____6_______makes more fascinating TV viewing. Ainsley Harriot, who starts in a TV cookery programme, thought his family history was a straightforward account of black slavery, but he was completely mistaken. He knew that his ancestors on his mother's side were slaves brought from Africa to Jamaica, but he also found out that his paternal great-grandfather_____7_______been a white Jamaican slave owner, who purchased his first slaves_________8______the age of four! Harrior was astonished to find that ancestors of his had been________9____the perpetrators and victms of the African slave trade. Programme producer, Tom McDonald, says "We do always warn everyone that history has a habbit____10_____taking surprising twists and turns – and they might not always like what they find!"

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