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Permalink Reply by Debra Honor on June 25, 2011 at 2:16pm I wish I could go back and accept the box of pictures that a relative had offered to me. I wish every picture given to me had the names and dates of the people and places.
Permalink Reply by James P. LaLone on June 27, 2011 at 7:41am
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Permalink Reply by wendy chamberlain on June 29, 2011 at 11:31am i wish i could have met my artist great-grandfather Charles Leaver Shaw
Permalink Reply by Jeff Zupan on September 10, 2012 at 12:48pm Two things actually, but closely related.
1 - That census takers had legible handwriting
2 - Census transcribers/indexers could read
Permalink Reply by Pat on September 17, 2012 at 5:41pm absolutely agree with this one!...have been doing family tree for over 6yrs now, and the hardest part has been trying to decipher Ireland's 'I''s , Scotish 'S''s and the main one I'm looking for is 'F' for foreign parts, which can look like an I, S and F !!!! Like occupation being a Dreffmaker!....drives me cravy! My wish is to find my g.g. grandmother who was born in France, and married a Casey in around 1827.
Permalink Reply by Jenny Snyder on September 13, 2012 at 10:47am I wish I could live just one day in the life of the person I am researching. (with a video recorder to get everything I was experiencing)
Permalink Reply by Gary Lee Jenkins on November 22, 2012 at 8:02pm I've taken my family tree from a handfull of names to approximatly 30,000 names with all types of stories, and pictures. But the one person I can not get pass the basic birh and death is my own mother. The death certificate that I Finally found was incorrect. Unless my father and her were getting a divorce at that time! Well my father was having an affair with another women when she died. I have not even got to my mothers dark side yet. I was warned not even to go their on my mothers side. Ho! boy do I have some questions to ask my mother if she was still alive. I'm digging real hard in the information that I have, and may be able to write a good book when I;m done. For my great grandmothers second husband was killed, and here third husband was put into jail for a big robbery. I love the old news papers for where they led you. They are like going back in time.
Permalink Reply by Al Dawson on December 6, 2012 at 9:06pm Ohhh I would never wish for my research to be completed - then life would have less meaning :) Torn between knowing the real father of my great-grandfather Charlie POUNDS or being able to go back in time to the summer of 1879 to my beloved Toronto and save the life of Newman Hall SMITH.
Permalink Reply by Lora on December 17, 2012 at 12:43pm I would wish to find out where my Dad was from 1931 (birth) to 1940. He just falls off the planet in the 1940 census. I know he was in a childrens home in California, but this brick wall is a nasty one!
Permalink Reply by Al Dawson on December 17, 2012 at 8:36pm Lora - you have no address or name for that that home? There are tricks to find someone missing in the census (usually a transcription error) if you have an urban address. Or know someone else who was in the home. I KNOW, too much to ask...
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