Haverhill, Massachusetts Home to be Featured on BBC's "Who Do You Think You Are?"

Producers from the British Broadcasting Corp. show "Who Do You Think You Are?" scouted the historic Hazen Garrison House recently as a site for future filming. Someone's family tree led the producers to the house at 8 Groveland Street, but they are not revealing the star's identity. They want to preserve the secret for fans of the show, which is entering its fifth season.

The brick English Manor-style house was built in 1724 by British merchant Richard Hazen. It is about 75 yards from the Merrimack River, where he wanted to build a trading wharf. However, nobody other than the TV show's employees know if the future TV show will feature Richard Hazen or perhaps a later owner.

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Comments

[Boeufdaisy]

Probably they're doing supermodel Jodie Kidd, or her brother or sister, descendants of Richard Hazen (as well as Max Aiken and Mayflower passenger Richard Warren). I don't know why that would be a "secret", though.

[Keith Wilson]

The best thing about this audio feed is that I can click on two or three speaker icons at the same time and listen to a number of Dicks newsletters simultaneously :-)

Keith

[Rose]

I wonder how long it will be before they bring this show to America? I know Tom Hanks and I share a common ancestor (I'm 7th generation, he's 11th). And though I'm not particularly interested in celebrities' ancestors, it would be nice if traced the "Hanks" line. I might find out more (than I already know) about my distant forebears. More importantly, it might ignite even greater interest in genealogy and promote even greater accessibility to the information genealogists need.

One other note: I contacted SRA, the London agency that does the tracing for this show. My line is presumed to have come to America from Cornwall, England in the mid-1600's, but no one to date has been able to prove the link between the Cornwall ancestor and our first DOCUMENTABLE ancestor born in Virginia. I gave them a little of my history in an email and asked for an estimate. They got back to me in less than 24 hours. The estimated cost for the work I needed them to do was $450 USD. I was very impressed with the quickness and precision of their response.