Who Do You Think You Are? Live 2007
The new annual London family history fair turns out to be a big crowd pleaser with celebrities a plenty.
Ian Hislop cuts the ribbon opening the first genealogy show at Olympia.
This three day event over the May bank holiday weekend has given an injection of new blood into the market.
It was a busy three days at the show with big crowds on the Saturday which quickly sold out.
It
was great to see so much interest in family history and to meet up with
customers new and old.
Of course when our staff weren't serving they had a field day autograph hunting. Julie manages to capture Rolf Harris.
Mark
gets to serve his childhood hero reminiscing about when he saw him sing
"Stairway to heaven" aged 7. Rolf retorts "You'll have
grown a bit since then."
Rolf asks about the various options.
Our son Paul keeps snapping, our wondering eye in the sky reporter.
Sue's wondering if she's shrinking or Paul's growing.
It can be tough in the genealogy world when the competition brings out their big guns.
Julie does it again and captures another celeb ,Neil Oliver this time.
The show had a wide variety of societies and suppliers.
The National Archives gets Tangoed!
Mugging for the camera.
The show interviews prove a great crowd puller, David Baddiel reveals what it was like to find his ancestors on the show.
Colin Jackson
Peter and Dan Snow with Nick Barratt
Ian Hislop
A great show full of interesting new features including celebrity interviews and workshops. Hope you can make it to the next one....Nigel Bayley
See you at Olympia 2nd - 4th May 2008
