Genealogy Chat

thanks for that Horatio i didn't know that there was a web site will take a peak in mo. You are right ,i dont tell people stuff cos they do think you're a bit strange. Hubby is a complete non believer and really gets grumpy if you mention anything, its all in your head he says, comlpetely closed mind. i have had other dreams like i said but i know they were just dreams this was so real and powerful, it was definately different to the others back soon yvette

No, lots of people have had After Death Communications or ADC's as they are commonly known. Try googling After Death Communication you will find lots of websites dedicated to the research of this subject. These experiences are quite common but lots of people don't like talking about them in case people think they are going barmy! They happen all over the world! Cheers, Horatia

i have another as well but we might be getting into the realms of most haunted. About a year or so after my grandad died i was living in bristol, and because my dad was on his own (divorced), we would always phone each other every sunday morning. One saturday night i had the most vivid dream, my grandad was standing in my room, next to my bed, i was in bed looking up at him, he was telling me to ring my dad as he needed me, i was saying to him i cant its like 3 am in the morning, anyway while speaking to my dad on the phone the next day, i yawned, dad said i'm tired too someone rang me in the middle of the night and when i picked up the phone there was no one there!!! i had not been sleepwalking and i checked our phone bill and i had'nt rung, its funny though as i have had dreams about rellies before but this one was so powerful his voice etc has this happened to anyone else or am i just stark raving bonkers as my hubby says

I have nothing to add to your convent story but how about this for a bit of spookiness. I went back to Needham Market, Suffolk where both my great grandmother and great grandfather were both born and lived until adulthood and then they both moved to London. I was driving around looking at the place when all of a sudden a lorry appeared bearing the surname of my great-grandfather! I looked the company up on the net, wrote to the chap and he was a descendant of my great grandfather's brother! Before that I had woken up with my grandmother's favourite song playing incessantly in my head. My husband said this was a sign that my grandmother was impatient that I make contact with her relatives and visit Needham Market! Cheers, Horatia

This may not be quite so spooky but my mother who always bought any jewellery secondhand as she insisted it was better value bought a signet ring for my husband, not knowing that the date engraved on the inside was his actual date of birth.

I have another one, i don't know if this is urban myth or not so judge for yourself, When my grandmother was 16yrs old and living in Scotland, She went to work in a cigarette factory and her best friend went to work or join a convent,The friend was in a small room cleaning on her hands and knees, when she heard shouts of Fire! She opened the door to be confronted by a wall of flame, she couldn't get out,in the room was a life sized statue of st Joseph so the girl got on her knees and prayed for help....... this is were it gets dodgy....After praying she looked up and noticed the statues eyes or hand(can't remember which now)move and direct her to a blank wall, suddenly a huge hole opened and the girl stepped through it to an outside courtyard and when she turned around it was a wall again, There was supposed to have been numerous deaths of nuns in the fire and the girl was one of the few survivors, has anyone ever heard this story before? as there would be some record of a fire in a convent wouldn't there?... MOE!

yes me to, i believe stuff like that happens for a reason to, and thats a great story, i sadly lost my mother in law this time last year, it was all very sudden- cancer, my hubby had a really hard time, we eventually managed to get away for a weekend, just camping, went to the clubhouse in the evening, the entertainer was a singer and played guitar, during the course of an hour he sang/played the 2 songs which were mum in laws faves and we had them played at the funeral, but really strange choices for an entertainer to play in a club, patsy cline, crazy and an acker bilk tune strangers on the shore, nothing like the rest of the modern stuff he was doing!!! yvette, got another to tell but need to use the phone back later

yvette, i always believe things happen for a reason, this could be a rellie. i read a story a few years ago of a man whose wife had died and he had a bad time getting over her, his children tried to help him and because he liked doing jigsaw puzzles of boats they bought him one of a pleasure cruiser in somewhere like Holland. after their dad completed the picture he realised everything looked familier and then noticed it had his wife and himself in the picture, they had it taken a few years before when on holiday, so they sent to the company and got a copy of the picture, some photographer had taken it on board the cruiser and sold it to the jigsaw company...This to me is his wife saying i am ok isn't it lovely?....MOE!

I love stories like this and they are quite common in genealogy/family history! Thanks for sharing. Cheers, Horatia

The thing that got me started into family history was when my grandad gave me some old postcards back in 1974 when i was 12 so i have been doing this for sometime. I went to a huge postcard fair on the spur of the moment at york racecourse on my way back home from a weekend break. It was one of the biggest i had ever seen, there were loads of stalls i couldn't possibly look at them all so i just chose a few at random looking at the cards from surrey. Only looked at a few stalls as i was in a hurry, picked up a few and on the back of one it had been written and posted and guess what it was to a mrs storer in ealing london, well that was my name and not very common, i really got goosebumps, what were the chances of coming across that?? yvette