If you could shout at someone from the past....

[jaybelnz]

A long term brick wall -  I would shout at the Registrar, (or other responsible person who didn't put the maiden name) of my 3x Irish Great grandmother's 1845 Dublin marriage certificate. -OR - maybe, if it was the case, the person who caused the fire that destroyed the Archives!

[Genetrix]

I'd like to ask my grandfather why he changed his surname. I wouldn't have been able to even start my family research if my father hadn't casually mentioned it just prior to his death. Felt completely betrayed as I've been wearing the wrong tartan all these years. GRR

[ms_canuck]

I would ask my grandfather why he deserted my grandmother, father & uncle.  He stayed with the 'other woman' and her sister until his death in 1963 - and left money to them in his Will!  I added the info into my tree - but it would be nice to have both sides of the story.

I also would not be here if not for WWII - my parents met because my mother was evacuated from London to North Wales (she was 18) to stay with two maiden aunts.  My Dad was a painter, and was outside a house painting when my mother walked by.

Ms_C

[CelticAnnie]

I would not dare raise my voice to my great great aunt and her husband, who were housekeeper and head attendant at Burghill Lunatic Asylum for many years. But I should very much like to politely ask them if they would be kind enough to write subjects' names on the backs of all the photographs in their photo albums (which have come down to me) -- unfortunately, I now have no idea who the vast majority of these people are.

CELTICANNIE

[louisa maud]

Whilst I was looking after my mother during her chemo treatments the council suggested she had her kitchen decorated, what an upheaval for an 83 year old , so we were cramped up in her lounge with a box of photographs, she wrote as much as she could on the huge amounts of photographs, what I will do with them now I just don't know as I don't think my family want them. I do have one of my grandmother hop picking, the way the photo is taken she looks as  if she is pole dancing, I have named it " little granny pole dancing".
 makes me smile

Louisa Maud

[Viktoria]

People who ,when they write on the back of group photographs,by turning them actually put the wrong names on the backs of those photographed.
So:left to right, -Mrs Red,Mrs.Orange.Mrs.Yellow. Mrs.Green, as you look at it but by writing in that order on the reverse, Mrs .Red is on the back of Mrs .Green.

Red,Orange ,Yellow, Green,front. Green ,Yellow, Orange, Red.back.
So if the names are done in the order on the front  they are actually reversed.
But we don’t know that for sure.
Oh, if only we knew.
Viktoria.