Three wishes time travel

[Nick29]

NG

I expect if we got far enough back we'd all be related.

Lizzie

That's more or less certain.  Every time you go back a generation, you double the number of people responsible for you being here.  You don't have to double a number many times (starting with 2), before you get a very large one.  You reach a stage where there just wasn't enough people in the country, so we must all share ancestors as you go back.

[Jean McGurn]

 I would like to pop back to a house in Liverpool in 1851 and quiz two sisters about their their lives and who were their children's father(s).

Then fast forward 10 years and quiz 3xg grandparents about their last born child. Was he really their son or was he their daughter's son?

Final wish would be to find answers to all my brickwalls present and future ones.

Jean

 

[Northerngirl]

Jean that last wish is a cheat!!!!

Besides - what else would you spend your time, efforts and greying hair on?!!!!!!!

NG

[Gaille]

ohhhh number 1 is easy! :
I would go back to about 1976, and sit down with my nana & grandad & actualy listen to what they told me about the box of photos I now posses and listen to the stories of the people in the photos!
I would ask nana what REALLY happened to her brother Charlie and HOW he 'Died young' (cos I am realy struggling to find the death date & place unknown of Charles/Charlie Smith in Manchester now!) and I would listen to grandad telling me about HIS parents, and grandparents and their families!
(My excuse is I WAS only 10 at the time & it was all boring to me then!)

Number 2:
lol I would get my mums grandparents and ask them what the **** they were playing at!
they have been a nightmare to trace cos neither of them used all the real details on their marriage cert and she didnt even use her real name!
I would ask gt-grandad what he knows about his father, and was he aware that he wasnt born in 1875 he was born in 1867, he wasnt born in Walsingham he was born in Kings Lynn, and when did he drop the all important 'Hanwell' middle name that told me who his father really was, cos he wasnt Henry Childs as he said on his marriage cert,  he was illigitimate, his mother was born a 'Childs' and only ever married twice!
(lol and while I am at it, did he know his father, cos on his marriage cert he gave the wrong fathers surname, but his real fathers occupation! ?)

Number 3:
LOL can I make this a 'blanket' question?
I would get every one the aforementioned gt-grandmas family together & ask why not one single one of them ever put down WHERE in Ireland they came from and demand to know where it was cos I cant go back any further without it! (McRea from Ireland place unknown is not do-able!)

Gaille

[Northerngirl]

Gaillie
You have my sympathy.  The Irish Lot  are driving me mad too.  I have spent five years saying "yes they were', 'no they weren't, yes they were..." from Northern Ireland and had moved west to 'Hell or Connaught' with their boss when they pee'd Charles II off.  To top it all they had the most un Irish surname of  - Mills.  Mills - I ask you.

As for the mistakes on the marriage certificate: I sent for my cousin's grandparents marriage certificate which happened in 1924 ish.  As he was in Oz he asked me to read it and send the document on.  It had his grandfather James down as William which was the name of the bride's father.  If he had not known about his grandfather and all the other facts it could have sent him entirely on the wrong trial.  When I telephoned the GRO to ask to check the details they told me that the name William was on the original certificate and it must have been a mistake made at registration - Grrhhh!  It would have been interesting to know if my cousin's grandparents noticed and tried to do something about it. 

And lastly as for grandparents being the source of information - well I think my lot must have been signed up with the secret service.  My mother did not know anything at all about her grandparents until I have started doing the family tree. 

NG

[Luzzu]

Like Gaille, I would like to go back to the 1976 and I would listen properly to my gran when she was explaining who, what, where and why and TAKE ACCURATE NOTES.

I would like to ask my gt gran why when she decided to have a sort out she decided to start burning old photographs and documents because they were taking up too much space in the cupboard  .

I would like to ask my 3 x gt grandad Patrick Grant why the records about him are in the name of Grant, Granten, Gralton and Grantham, why he has apparently registered 3 of his children but not the eldest two, and why did he never say exactly where in Ireland he came from.  He has built one massive brickwall  .