Hi, Now that's a serious question. I will list them in order of importance to me.. There are three people who are at the top of my genealogy wishes. My Great Grandfather John G. Gilpin, b. supposedly in Montgomery Co., OH 14 August - 1822-1828? He just appears in Abington Co., IN and marries Mary Ann Graves in 1850. What would I ask him? Who are your parents and where did you all come from? Next would have to be Richard the Rider or his real name Richard deGuylpyn, b. before 1272 when he was given a land grant for Ulwithwaite Manor in Westmoreland England. There are three questions I'd just have to ask him. Who the heck was Bert deGylpyn. Of course encourging him to explain in detail.. then next Did you really kill that Boar?? And was it you or your Daddy that was at the signing of the Magna Carta, They say one of you did the scribe work as most of the Barons and King John could not read or write. THe third person is also a Gilpin. William Gilpin inherited Ulwithwaite Manor and Kentmere Hall along with about 4000 acres of land. He was a Kings man and fought on the Kings side in the Cromwellian Wars (England's's Civil War) as we know the king lost, so his soldiers were persecuted by Cromwell. William tried tricking them by selling Kentmere Hall to a cousin, but the money was never paid and when the King came back into partial power William's family did not ask to have Williams land returned to him, So the family lost these lands and Heritage (which still stands today...) Then William disappears, some of us believe he went to Ireland and started the Irish Gilpins. I want to know what he was thinking and where he went! Oh my, explaining who I am? and what year it is.. Now I don't think that the year would be as hard to explain as it might seem. The Gilpins through-out History have been learned men, some as Bernard Gilpin were preachers (he was called the apposel of the North and it has been said would have been sainted if St hood was allowed by then in England..) Or if you look at the Artists or even an Ambassador to the Haig (spelling) as one was for Queen Elizabeth I. So you see the Gilpins were learned men.. So grasping the idea of being this far into the future would not be that hard for them.. But, me as a descendant..LOL not sure how they would take that I'd either be well loved or beaten for being way to forward fo a woman! If I could add a non relative.. It would have to be Elizabeth I, Queen of England. Nelda Nelda's websites - Please visit http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/ http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/ http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/ http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/ http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/ http://www.geocities.com/nlp100/myhome.htm http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gillock/