Vicki Hilb's Page

"I wish I could go back in time and ask my great-great grandfather, Nicholas Eastin, who his parents were."

"To find a Sister I never knew"

"Thanks Al, I responded."

"Lora - sent you a private reply - 1940 seems your best bet.  Merry Christmas!"

"Hi Al, I have nothing.  At this point we are guessing.  We have photos of him and my aunt in some kind of childrens home.  We have tried to be picture detectives with magnifying glasses and all that and have come up with…"

"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…"

"I WOULD LIKE TO FIND OUT WHY MY DADS' FATHER ADOPTED OUT THE 5 GIRLS: MARIE, MERLE, ELIZABETH, RUTH AND THE BABY SHIRLEY (WHO WAS RENAMED MARGUERITE LATER AFTER SHE WAS ADOPTED, AFTER MY GRANDMOTHER DIED IN CHILDBIRTH)"

"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!"

"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…"

"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…"

"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…"

"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)"

"Two things actually, but closely related. 1 - That census takers had legible handwriting 2 - Census transcribers/indexers could read"

"i wish i could have my artist great-grandfather Charles Leaver Shaw  "

"I wish I could meet someone who truly knew the person I'm seeking.  Who could tell me how they walked, dressed, what they thought was funny.  Their loves and pains.  IHow they feel in love...or out of love.  Their hard…"

"I wish the people who sign up on the various groups on Genealogy Wise would actually participate!"