Comments on: WDYTYA – 3×01 – Martin Sheen – The Nitpicker’s Version

By: Banai Lynn Feldstein

Banai Lynn Feldstein — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 18:40:26 +0000

Joleen, your comments are true of every episode. They always leave gaps and skip around the family looking for the best story for TV.

For genealogists, we love the hunt, and finding any ancestor is a good story to us.

By: Joleen

Joleen — Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:57:54 +0000

Thank you for this frank analysis. While there was interesting information presented because of the research into Martin Sheen’s family, I was disappointed that so many gaps were left in the process. I was also left with questions regarding his direct line individuals. The activism angle served well for the stories they opted to share, but I would like to have learned more about his U.S. relations before hopping the ocean. Still, interesting and worth watching.

By: Banai Lynn Feldstein

Banai Lynn Feldstein — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:18:24 +0000

Thanks for the details. I know that some people do the research along with the show (especially when they’re searching through records on Ancestry). I just analyze what I see on screen, though I do make a few exceptions occasionally.

By: e. silveira

e. silveira — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:30:57 +0000

..”I couldn’t see clearly if his father was born in Tui”..
..”I thought they had mentioned that town name, Parderrubias, earlier”..

Indeed, Parderrubias, a litttle hamlet at Salceda de Caselas council – http://tinyurl.com/6m4hqsl – , at the Tui outskirts, in the very south of this very old Galician realm and Kingdom, is the place where Francisco Estévez Martínez, Ramón Estevez/Martin Sheen father, was born and breed.

..”A third book revealed that Matias was sentenced in September 1936, to be released in 1966, and was released in 1940″..

Right. Matias Estevez was released from the Pamplona’s San Cristobal jail in 1940 (where he previosly has arrived from the San Simon Island concentration camp, – http://tinyurl.com/6wzv5ze – , located at the Vigo Bay, not far away of his Parderrubias hometown, where he was confined in 1936) , but he remained in house arrest until 1969.

I hope to have been useful with these small clarifications to what has been a really good television historical research episode. Regards.