Three wishes time travel

[genjen]

An interesting exercise is to note down your 3 wishes now, and then check in 12 months time, and see if they're still the same.

Mine will be, Nick. They have been the same for the last five years and I see no way of getting any answers in the future.

[Northerngirl]

Don't dispair gengen just keep chip chip chipping away with that toffee hammer at the brick wall and you'll eventually get a break through!!!!!

[Olly]

Yes, I think I've just added another tiny piece of the jigsaw that is my grandad's life from 1901.

I've been going through my notes and I found a scribbled entry that said his sister Harriet married someone called hughes. Checked it out on LancsBmd and Yes.
This would perhaps make her one of the 2 ladies who notified his death. (on another thread) Don't know why I didn't spot it before.

I never really looked for his brothers and sisters marriages before.

Thanks for making me look through my notes.

See genjen, you have to keep searching!!!!!!!!!

Regards
Olly

[Gemerald]

1) I would ask my 3x Great Grandfather, George Thomas Myatt, who exactly he was. I can find no trace of him at all before his wedding day.

2) I would ask my 3x Great Grandfather, Adam Grosert, what happened to him after he divorced his wife. He disappears after that date.

3) I would ask the son of the above, Thomas Grosert, what happened to his first wife, Christina Heggie. He took her and his son to America and by the time of the next US census he was living with someone else.

I'm sure i could think of a 101 more questions to ask, but those are the puzzles that frustrate me the most!

[LizzieW]

I'd ask

1.  My g.grandfather what his date of birth was, and who his parents were.  Particularly his mother, was she really Spanish or Portuguese and who were her parents.

2.  I'd ask my 2 x g.grandfather what his date of birth was and where he was born and if he really was the son of the people he knew as his parents.

3.  I'd ask my grandfather why he let people think he was an only child and whether there are the photos of his siblings.

For my OH,

1.  I'd ask his 3 x g.grandmother when and where she was born and who her parents were and if she died in 1842 in Glossop.
2.  I'd ask his 3 x g.grandfather when and where he was born and who his parents were and as he died in 1836 I'd ask him the cause of his death.

Lizzie

[little meg]

I'd ask

1. My g.grandfather what his date of birth was, and who his parents were. Particularly his mother, was she really Spanish or Portuguese and who were her parents.
Lizzie

I see at least 4 questions there Lizzie, and that's only in question 1.  - No cheating 

Margaret

[genjen]

But we are allowed sub-sections so just put a little i, ii, iii etc and you'll be fine.

[MarieC]

Like genjen, my wishes have been the same for years and look like remaining well into the future!  Unbreakable brick walls, unfortunately.  My only hope (apart from time travel!) is that a currently unknown rellie comes out of the woodwork and tells me about these people!

MarieC

[genjen]

I could probably solve one of mine if I could afford to send for umpteen birth certificates for John Smith in Co. Durham 1856 - 1861. I could probably work out which was mine then. But given the family rumour that he was adopted or brought up by a different branch of the family, I could just as easily be searching forever.