You rub the
magic lamp and to your wondrous eyes a magical genie appears.
He agrees to
grant you one wish!
Without a second
thought,
you ask him to
restore the 1890 census.
Murphy's Law
The will you need is
in a safe onboard the Titanic
You finally find the
wedding record for your gggrandfather only to discover
he married Mary SMITH whose father was John SMITH and
mother was Mary JONES!
You have finally found
the information you needed to solve the family mystery
you have been working on for 2 years and your elderly
aunt says " I could have told you that!"
You find an old family
photo album and upon close examination, there are no
names on the pictures.
You learn that your
great grandmother's family bible (passed down through
the family for 3 generations) was sold at an estate sale
in New York City.
You find your family
in the census and write to the county where they lived
for 40 years, only to receive a letter stating all the
county records burned.
You learn there is a
county history on microfilm of the county your ancestors
originated. It has 16000 pages and is not indexed.
The public ceremony in
which your distinguished ancestor participated and at
which the platform collapsed under him, turned out to be
a hanging.
