Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission: Impossible! music), is to:
(1) Determine which event in your ancestral history that you would love to be a witness to via a Time Machine. Assume that you could observe the event but not participate in it.
(2) Tell us all about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook Status post.
There are so many events I would love to witness with this time machine! Marriages, births, so many end-of-line ancestors to wonder about. But rather than focus on myself, I decided to broaden the scope a little bit.
I want to witness the adoption of Raymond Lawrence Sellers, the son whom my paternal aunt gave up for adoption in 1945. My aunt will turn 95 this December, and she asked me a few years ago to help her find out what happened to her son. I've tried, and I've posted about it several times, but New Jersey has closed adoption records, and no DNA matches have appeared in Ancestry, Family Tree DNA, 23andMe, MyHeritage, or GEDMatch. So why not try a time machine?
If I can witness the adoption, I'll find out the names of the adoptive parents and maybe even what name they gave Raymond when they adopted him. Then I can search for that name and find out whether he is still alive (he will be turning 75 this year if he is), married, had children, and more. And I can tell him that his birth mother wants to talk with him.
No guarantees after that, I realize, but boy, what a boon that would be indeed.
A time machine would be terrific, but I hope some DNA matches appear soon to help you out.
ReplyDeleteYeah, I'm pretty sure I'll see DNA matches before I see a time machine! :)
DeleteThis is the best answer I've read so far.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Lisa.
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