Terraann – This is very powerful dream, and is either a teaching dream, allowing you to realise new things about your whole self, or is a form of realisation of self.
There are usually many parts of us that need integration – even in the one life time we are split off into many parts. That is partly the work of dreams and spiritual investigation. But of course sometimes we meet our ancestors and integrate them; parts of us that ended their life unsatisfied, and need our consciousness of them. This is one of the meanings of resurrection. That is like your feeling that they can finish their lives.
Tony