He is not an ancestor but the person I have been researching is Fred J Noonan, Amelia Earhart's navigator. I would dearly love to ask him 'who brought him up when his mother died?' This for me supercedes 'what happened on that fateful July day?' Jackie ----- Original Message ----- From: "gen-Quest" <gen-quest@comcast.net> To: <ILroots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, November 04, 2010 6:33 PM Subject: [ILROOTS] Who would you invite to your Thanksgiving Dinner? > > Those of us in the USA will soon be celebrating Thanksgiving. > > If you could have one of your ancestors from Illinois join you for > Thanksgiving dinner, which ancestor would you invite? What questions > would > you ask him or her? > > Please send a post to the list telling us about your ancestor - and please > remember to include dates and locations. > > Karima > List Administrator > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > List Guidelines: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~illinois/Illinoismailinglist3.html > > Visit the Illinois GenWeb Project's - Unknown IL Counties Web Site at > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilunknow/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ILROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message