... I would love a session with my paternal GGF to ask him who his parents were.
I remember my gt.grandfather who died when I was two years old and I knew he would have been born between June and September 1854 and his given name was Herman who came from "somewhere in Germany". My grandmother was his 2nd daughter named Sophia and I eventually discovered his oldest son KIA in WWI was "Henry". I eventually found one of my mother's cousins who had a note of his family's village.
I had made several journeys to the morman church at Chorley, Lancashire, looking through a german film I'd ordered with no luck but maybe he'd turn up on a 2nd film I'd ordered. In the interim I went to a medium who opened with ...
"I am being drawn to Preston". My ears perked up because one of my brothers lives in Preston village, Yorkshire... but she didn't mention my brother's name, instead it was:
There's a man standing in the road - Albert" ... my ears pricked up again as Albert was another of Herman's sons.
"He's picking up ashes and putting them up into a tree. Why on earth would he do that?"
"He's saying "Francis, Frank", a man's name".
I guessed straight away that the tree & ashes referred to my family tree, but slowcoach me took four days to realise that Chorley is on the road to Preston, Lancashire
When the next film arrived, there was no Herman amongst the baptisms, but there was a baby called Franz (Frank/Francis) with parents Henry and Sophie.
I guess I've been lucky not to have wasted money on a charlatan.
