family dinner affair

A Family Dinner Affair?

If you could have dinner with four of your ancestors, who would you

chose and why?

A difficult question to answer, if you ask me. So, who would I chose

to have dinner with? Well, I would definitely invite my Civil War

ancestor, Adam. Why? Well, I have a lot of questions to ask,

especially questions about his children, siblings and parents. I'd

want to confirm who his siblings were and the names of all the

children. Also, I want to ask him about his service and his childhood.

As you can see, I have a lot of questions to ask him. Plus, I want to

see what he looks like as I don't have a picture of him and get an

idea of what his personality was like.

And now for the difficult part: choosing the other three ancestors to

invite. Do I split my invitation by gender or by the parental side

that the ancestor came from? It is definitely a complex decision to

make.

I definitely would like to invite one of my German - speaking

ancestors, not only to ask him or her questions about his or her

family, but also so that I could (technically speaking) practice

speaking German. I realize that is an impossibility, but since it is

an imaginary situation, it could be a hypothetical possibility. I am

not sure, though, which German ancestor I would invite.

I suppose for the last two ancestors, I could invite Jacob and Barbara

Detwiler. I definitely have questions to ask them about their parents

and family members. Plus, I would like to know what convinced them to

move to Michigan.

Of course I do have two other ancestors that I could invite. Again, I

would be asking those two ancestors the same questions that I would be

asking Jacob and Barbara.

As to whether I would want to want to eat a home cooked meal or a meal

at a restaurant, I think I would prefer a home cooked meal as that

meal would give me an idea of what my ancestors ate, the economic

status of my ancestors and, of course, the ethnic heritage of my

ancestors.

As to which era I would want to eat in, I would rather eat in the era

of my ancestors because as a history major, I would find experiencing

my ancestors' eras as exciting and adventurous, and because eating in

their eras would give me an idea of what their lives were like. Plus,