Comments on: If You Could Ask Any Ancestor One Question - Who and What Would it Be?

By: Tom Billings

Tom Billings — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:51:43 +0000

I would choose my GGGrandfather, John Wesley Billings from TN, and would ask him why he was so secretive about his ancestry and past and please, please tell only me. ;^)

By: kate avery

kate avery — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 00:07:36 +0000

i would ask my grandma costa why she left my grandpa bowen and why did she marry seraphino costa? was she ever legally divorced from my grandpa and why all the secrecy in the family?.

By: A. Spence

A. Spence — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:47:20 +0000

It would be my great grandmother Bessie. I would want her to tell me about her parents. I don’t know much about them and wish I asked before she passed.

By: David Sparks

David Sparks — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:04:16 +0000

I would like to share the short story about my father when he was 9. Somehow my Grandma dumped all 8 children Somewhere in Calif. to fend for themselves,,,it is a black spot in everyones lives..as no one is alive to talk about it…whew it is a real booger. There is something about a murder between Arkansas and CA.? All this was between 1924 & 1933.I would love to ask her(Mollie)what happened…I was born in ‘48 and didn’t know my Dad until I was 19. He served in the Army & the Air Force.I am proud of my DAD,He was a Master Sergant.David..

By: David Sparks

David Sparks — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 23:52:16 +0000

Hi Robert, since I do not have a computer I can’t order stuff from you as such…I can however learn from your great you tube things and it does serve me well.You have a wonderful disposition about life…! I’ll share the same heaven you are headed for.I am lousy at typing (Never Figured it out)But i can spell…some…some…there.Laughing is permitted…well I am researching Cherokee lineage…as I am trying to get the cards.Thank you for your super help…!!Sparky

By: Jacquelene

Jacquelene — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 01:11:15 +0000

you see it be my grandmother.mrs olealer Felder Johnson.all i no is that she was born in tx on sep23 1911 and i love her so much she pass dec 11 1994.what i have on her is that.her family go from the town goodwill.and her dad name was Jim or will Felder.my grandie was a Indian.and some of her Family was from Gabriel S Felder.but i need to find a son name.Adlai the son of Rufus H Felder.NEED YOUR HELP THANK YOU ALL.

By: Gay Gantvoort

Gay Gantvoort — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 01:08:02 +0000

My Gr Gr Grandfather, Samuel Morrison, his wife and 6 weeks old son left Newtownstuart, Tyrone, Ireland in 1832 to immigrate to Philadelphia to join his brother. The family story tells of his ship ending up in Nova Scotia and the family walking to Philadelphia.

Though curious about what ship, where the really landed, if his father came with him or at another time, the question I would ask for the details of their journey. To me the imagined ordeal seems mind boggling.

By: phyllis

phyllis — Sat, 26 Jul 2008 15:07:31 +0000

My grandparents abandoned my mother and her sister when they were small children; my mother was never able to find out why and/or what happened to them,she was haunted throughout her short life (she died at 49 after a lifetime of pain and suffering).

I would ask my granndmother; what happened ; Why Grandmother? Where did you go?

By: Casey

Casey — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 02:52:24 +0000

My great great grandfather, Theodore Washington MOORE was born in 1821 in Muskingum County, Ohio - at least as far as I can find out. I would ask him about his parents, since I can’t find out who they were. Census entries that show TW say his parents were born in Ohio, but since Ohio wasn’t a state until 1803, they would have been pretty young when he was born. My dad always said MOORE was spelled MOHR until WWI and that we were of German descent. However, as far back as the 1850 census, my MOORE was spelled the same way as today. So if Grandpa TW could tell me about his parents, I could clear up a few mysteries.

By: Joann

Joann — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 14:39:54 +0000

I would ask my GGrand father, David Monroe Bibb, where he was born, in 1827.
I have proved it was in the State of Virginia
but unable to pinpoint the county. He joined
the Civil War in KY in 1861, resident of Crittenden Co., was in Army only months when
he got pneumonia, was sent to Nashville to
recuperate, but not recovering well was sent
home to his wife and six small children,
the youngest 6 mos., where he contacted measles
and died, June 21, 1862. His widow, Lucinda Grubbs Bibb drew pension until her death in 1903.