The list should be annotated in the following manner:
Things you have already done or found: bold face type
Things you would like to do or find: italicize (colour optional)
Things you haven’t done or found and don’t care to: plain type
You are encouraged to add extra comments in brackets after each item
Which of these apply to you?
- Can name my 16 great-great-grandparents
- Can name over 50 direct ancestors (I can name 108 at last count)
- Have photographs or portraits of my 8 great-grandparents (I have six, but have seen a portrait of the last two, but do not have a copy of it)
- Have an ancestor who was married more than three times (I wrote about Medina Sherer here)
- Have an ancestor who was a bigamist
- Met all four of my grandparents (only three, my grandpa Lee died before I was born)
- Met one or more of my great-grandparents (I saw my Hiby great-grandparents several times before they passed away)
- Named a child after an ancestor (my children's middle names only)
- Bear an ancestor's given name/s
- Have an ancestor from Great Britain or Ireland (my most recent would be Fanny Arnold Harmon, my 2nd great-grandmother)
- Have an ancestor from Asia
- Have an ancestor from Continental Europe (yep, lots)
- Have an ancestor from Africa
- Have an ancestor who was an agricultural labourer (I think nearly all my ancestors were involved in agriculture)
- Have an ancestor who had large land holdings (not sure how large is large, but many had 160+ acres)
- Have an ancestor who was a holy man - minister, priest, rabbi (Rev. Isaac Grindstaff, a Baptist preacher)
- Have an ancestor who was a midwife
- Have an ancestor who was an author
- Have an ancestor with the surname Smith, Murphy or Jones (sigh, yes, at least two different unrelated Jones lines)
- Have an ancestor with the surname Wong, Kim, Suzuki or Ng
- Have an ancestor with a surname beginning with X
- Have an ancestor with a forename beginnining with Z (Zerlinda, daughter of Medina mentioned in #4 above)
- Have an ancestor born on 25th December (nope but a set of great-great-grandparents got married on Christmas)
- Have an ancestor born on New Year's Day (4 relatives, but not a direct ancestor)
- Have blue blood in your family lines
- Have a parent who was born in a country different from my country of birth
- Have a grandparent who was born in a country different from my country of birth (my most recent ancestor of foreign birth is Fanny Arnold born in Warwickshire, England in 1856)
- Can trace a direct family line back to the eighteenth century
- Can trace a direct family line back to the seventeenth century or earlier
- Have seen copies of the signatures of some of my great-grandparents
- Have ancestors who signed their marriage certificate with an X (While I'm sure I do, I'd be happy to just have a copy of a marriage certificate!)
- Have a grandparent or earlier ancestor who went to university (I was the first college graduate in my family, followed by my sister three years later)
- Have an ancestor who was convicted of a criminal offence (I've heard rumors of a bastardy bond filed against a couple of ancestors - sure would like to see the evidence of it.)
- Have an ancestor who was a victim of crime
- Have shared an ancestor's story online or in a magazine (several times here on my blog)
- Have published a family history online or in print (Details please)
- Have visited an ancestor's home from the 19th or earlier centuries
- Still have an ancestor's home from the 19th or earlier centuries in the family
- Have a family bible from the 19th Century (I do have copies of pages from an early 20th century bible that lists some 19th births/marriages.)
- Have a pre-19th century family bible
Thanks, Tracy, for participating in the meme challenge.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on what you have achieved in the last dozen years or so.
I see accroding to Geneabloggers today is your third year anniversary you've been blogging about genealogy.
ReplyDeleteHappy Blogiversary.
Regards, Jim