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dreamyxo

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Would you rather meet your ancestor or your descendant?
« on: September 14, 2019, 11:50:04 pm »
Would you rather meet an ancestor from 100 years in the past or a descendant 100 years in the future? I'd rather meet an ancestor.  I have a picture of my 3rd or 4th great grandmother and I'd like to know what her life was like.

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Re: Would you rather meet your ancestor or your descendant?
« Reply #1 on: September 15, 2019, 01:04:21 am »
I would say both. But I would prefer to see my ancestor so see my older family members.

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Re: Would you rather meet your ancestor or your descendant?
« Reply #2 on: September 15, 2019, 05:51:03 am »
both would be cool...but would love to meet a lot of my descendants..
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Re: Would you rather meet your ancestor or your descendant?
« Reply #3 on: September 15, 2019, 07:33:32 am »
That's really a hard choice.  I would love to say both, but if I had to pick i think my ancestors.
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Re: Would you rather meet your ancestor or your descendant?
« Reply #4 on: September 15, 2019, 08:32:38 am »
I would love to meet my ancestors. I want to know how they got to where they were.

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Re: Would you rather meet your ancestor or your descendant?
« Reply #5 on: September 15, 2019, 09:14:21 am »
I think ancestor so I can see what was going on back then.

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Re: Would you rather meet your ancestor or your descendant?
« Reply #6 on: September 15, 2019, 09:36:07 am »
I would like to ancestors, to learn more about our family.

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Re: Would you rather meet your ancestor or your descendant?
« Reply #7 on: September 15, 2019, 03:23:04 pm »
Gosh, that's an excellent and interesting question. I guess I'd rather meet my ancestor from 100 years ago than my descendant from 100 years in the future. I'm not sure why, but I'm thinking that the life of my ancestor might be a little more interesting.  :peace:

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Re: Would you rather meet your ancestor or your descendant?
« Reply #8 on: September 15, 2019, 03:27:38 pm »
It looks as though the ancestors have it. It's almost unanimous so far because I concur.

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Re: Would you rather meet your ancestor or your descendant?
« Reply #9 on: September 15, 2019, 03:52:02 pm »
I too would love to meet my ancestors rather than the future to be sure it scares me lol  but to know where I came from I would love to know about

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Re: Would you rather meet your ancestor or your descendant?
« Reply #10 on: September 15, 2019, 08:19:53 pm »
That's really a hard choice.  I would love to say both, but if I had to pick i think my ancestors.

I agree tough choice but would love to know more about the past and how my family started so I guess it is ancestors.

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Re: Would you rather meet your ancestor or your descendant?
« Reply #11 on: September 15, 2019, 09:02:35 pm »
I never really thought about it. Think I would rather meet someone in the future who I don't know one thing about. I heard enough about my family over the years.

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Re: Would you rather meet your ancestor or your descendant?
« Reply #12 on: September 15, 2019, 11:07:43 pm »
Neither. That would manipulate my family history.
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Re: Would you rather meet your ancestor or your descendant?
« Reply #13 on: September 16, 2019, 03:01:05 pm »
I would like to meet some of my  ancestors,  As for descendants, I don't have any as my children passed away before me.
I would  have loved to have had a passel grandbabies and great grandbabies.  But since  that is wishful thinking I just  collect young  people that are same age as my boys would have been. Some  even call me mom. kind od nice.

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Re: Would you rather meet your ancestor or your descendant?
« Reply #14 on: September 17, 2019, 06:18:22 am »
That would be a hard choice!  There are a lot of relatives that passed away long before I was born that I would like to meet.  I would also like to meet my future great and great-great grandchildren as I know I won't be around when (if) they come into the world.  I like to think I will get to meet all one day in Heaven or in the New Jerusalem after the Lord Jesus comes back.
Have a wonderful day!

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