Alistair Mcgowan Joke

[robert551069]

On Channel Four's Countdown programme yesterday, Alistair McGowan said that with a name like his he felt sure that he must have Scottish ancestry.
To check, he went on the programme "Who Do You Think You Are" and was surprised to find that this was not true.
He was told that his father had Irish blood and that his mother's ancestors were Chinese.
That made him Caucasian (Cork Asian)

[rojash]

And he gets paid for that?

[VHG]

I know this is in jokes, but when Alistair McGowan DID go on "Who do you think you are" in 2007 he found he had Indian ancestors.

His father was born in India and his father came from mixed British / Indian parentage.

When the British "ruled" India they encouraged British men to marry Indian wives so it would produce a group of children who would grow up and be loyal to the British and be happy to work for them.

Many of these children were then given jobs by the British when they grew up.

Because the indian people married British people they took the British surname, so there is now a whole group of Indian people living in India with "British" surnames.

Alistair went out to India to meet some of his ancestoers and it was strange when he went to one house where the sign on the gate was "McGowan" but when he went in the house the people were all Indian.

I have to say it was a very interesting program.

More here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alistair_McGowan

[VHG]

Here is part one of his Who Do You Think You Are

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R85IkGW3y9c

[VHG]

Here is part 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sxq4JcYv9_A

[kloofnek]

I watched that too...I love Who Do You Think You Are".
I have done my family history back to the 1500`s and certainly came up with some suprises...scandels ...mysteries..you name it!!
I have some many different bloods in me that my friends call me "International"