I think in my case if I dreamed of a house it would be wishful thinking! I did have an odd experience though, at the FRC, a couple of years back. I'd gone to do a shedload of research, as you do, including searching for the death of my 4 x great grandmother, Ann Green. I looked in one ledger, June or September of 1881, it would have been, but didn't find her. I was just about to close it and check the next one, when I felt a really strong impression of someone standing just behind my left shoulder, telling me to turn the pages back and look for Ada. Now the Ada in question would have been not quite 18 years old in that year - part of my plans that day were to see if I could find a marriage for her. So I was initially non-plussed at this apparent "silent suggestion" that I should look for her death in the book that I was now holding in my hands. But still, I turned back the pages, found Culling - and there she was. Dead at not quite 18 years old. I sent off for the certificate and found she'd died by "Violent self-poisoning" by drinking carbolic acid. God bless the local studies library at Bethnal Green I think it was - they found me a newspaper report into her inquest and funeral and it made sensational reading. There was a local outcry against her grandmother apparently, because at the inquest, grandma (the aforementioned Ann Green) had tarnished Ada's reputation, in the opinion of the neighbours, by stating that she was obsessed with her appearance, spent too much money on clothes etc and "beautifying herself" and "aping the manners of those who were above her in station". According to the newspaper report, grandma was hissed and catcalled at the graveside, her carriage almost overturned on the way to/from the funeral, and dead cats and dogs thrown at her house during the night after the burial. (where did they get dead cats and dogs, I ask myself?!) and the police had to prevent neighbours from burning an effigy of Mrs Green. And I would never have found out about any of this, had I not had that "silent whisper" to turn back the pages and look for Ada's death.
