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

By: Lance Lucena

Lance Lucena — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 06:46:06 +0000

I’d probably ask my grandmother on my father’s side, how she raised her 12 children. What are her struggles and her achievements. Also, I would like to ask her, what were her secrets on how she maintained being so regal and cool despite the number of children she had. And I would be thrilled to know her love story with my grandfather, since he was her one and only boyfriend when they got married, and vice versa.

I chose her mainly because I was not that close to her, unlike my grandmother on my mother’s side.

By: Gemma Hooton

Gemma Hooton — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 17:06:13 +0000

I think what would interest me the most is if i went back to the farthest ancestor i had i would ask them what they would want for there future grandchildren and great grandchildren and so on as times was so hard for them back then it would just be an insight into how they thought the future should be to how it really is now.

By: Debra Gallagher

Debra Gallagher — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 14:51:41 +0000

Because she seems to me to have been a curious combination of pious (lifelong Southern Baptist), earthy (could curse to make grown men cower), tough (began married life in an Oklahoma half-dugout; most farm women of her time HAD to be tough), tender (made hot compresses to ease my mother’s “growing pains”) , judgemental (of her sons-in-law) and accepting (young children’s impishnesss made her laugh), I would ask my Grannie Bashie Gaddis Downs (a) is that your real given name or is it a short-form/nickname; and (b) how did you find the strength to keep on during and after your marriage to “Daddy Daddy” J. Downs? Was it just a matter of “do what you have to”…or was there some fundamental guiding principal or motivation for you?

By: tammer

tammer — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 21:20:18 +0000

I would ask my grandfather why he took half his kids and dumped them in California with his sister, never to be heard from again. They moved and were never found. I’m sure there’s family out there, I hope they had a better life the constant moving my dad and his brother had to live with.

By: barbara herron

barbara herron — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 00:44:34 +0000

I would love to speak to my American Revolutionary War Ancestor. What changes he had to have seen. Did he like the King of England? What brought you to a new land? Who were your parents, and your wife’s last name???
I believe I could learn so much about strength,bravery,and humility.
Once I make it to Heaven, I hope to get my chance to ask all my ancestors lot’s of questions. I also have a few for God!

By: Paula

Paula — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 00:17:35 +0000

Only one? With all my dead ends and questions, I couldn’t possibly make a choice! But I know the one question I would ask them all: Who are your parents?

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..