Hello, I have always had an interest in finding out about the siblings of an ancestor. It goes along with what was going on in the world - or in their town - when the ancestor was living. I don't need to find out everything about the sibling, but it would be nice to find out who they married and how many children they had. After all those children would be my ancestor's nephews and nieces. And, my "wish" - as someone else said - is that the descendants of those nephews and nieces might have more information on my ancestor than I do. And I'd like to mention half-siblings. My grandmother eloped at Age 17, probably because she was pregnant. She lost that baby, and then a 2nd baby, and then had a daughter and 2 sons. The first husband and she divorced in 1935, and she was already pregnant with the man who would be her 2nd husband. She then had her 2nd daughter and another son. This aunt and uncle are only about 8-9 years older than I am. The reason I'm mentioning this is that this aunt knew her mother much more than I did. My father did not get along with his parents, so we didn't visit all that much. And, my aunt knew her mother's mother more than I did. So she can tell me lots of stories about her mother and grandmother, and I would never have heard them. Part of what I am saying is that there are more than 4-5 children in a family, and they are spread apart in ages, the younger children in the family knew the parents much longer than their oldest sibling - in some cases. Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) List Administrator (My aunt lost all 4 of her siblings during the 1990's. Her younger brother "dropped dead" at Age 60. He didn't like to go to doctors. An autopsy showed he had undiagnosed heart disease, undiagnosed lung disease, and undiagnosed cancer at the time of his death. My aunt is relatively healthy.) (This is another case of "life-threatening diseases" coming down from the KIDDER / WILKINS ancestors near Calais, Maine. Or, as I was advised several years ago, my parents and their siblings inherited "weak immune systems" from their ancestors.)