Thanks to Geniaus
The list should be annotated in the following manner:Things you have already done or found
Things you would like to do or find
Things you haven’t done or found and don’t care to
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 (have 15)
- Can name over 50 direct ancestors
- Have photographs or portraits of my 8 great-grandparents (Not possible to get all of them.)
- Have an ancestor who was married more than three times
- Have an ancestor who was a bigamist
- Met all four of my grandparents (I have 6 grandparents - adopted and birth. All but two were dead before I was born. We lived with the Aussie Grandma and met the UK when when she came to visit in the early 1960's.)
- Met one or more of my great-grandparents (not possible)
- Named a child after an ancestor (not possible)
- Bear an ancestor's given name/s (Dad was named after all of his grandfathers (he had 3 as his dad was adopted by a relative), and did not want to have any child of his named after any ancestors. Took them weeks to name me ;-))
- Have an ancestor from Great Britain or Ireland
- Have an ancestor from Asia - (Richard Saveall born East Indies)
- Have an ancestor from Continental Europe
- Have an ancestor from Africa (Ann Saveall - Richard's mother is said to be negress have found she was from the West Indies. More to do here.)
- Have an ancestor who was an agricultural labourer
- Have an ancestor who had large land holdings
- Have an ancestor who was a holy man - minister, priest, rabbi
- Have an ancestor who was a midwife
- Have an ancestor who was an author - do travel journals from 19th Century count?
- Have an ancestor with the surname Smith, Murphy or Jones
- 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
- Have an ancestor born on 25th December
- Have an ancestor born on New Year's Day
- 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
- 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
- Have a grandparent or earlier ancestor who went to university
- Have an ancestor who was convicted of a criminal offence
- Have an ancestor who was a victim of crime
- Have shared an ancestor's story online or in a magazine (Australian Family Tree Connection Magazine, in RAHS History Magazineand various rootsweb mailing lists.)
- Have published a family history online or in print (have Gedcom files at WorldConnect see ~patwack and ~patientgenie)
- 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 (I wish - Pitt St Sydney tween Market and King, sigh....
- Have a family bible from the 19th Century
- Have a pre-19th century family bible
Thanks for joining the meme, Michelle.
ReplyDeleteGreat to have a contribution from New Zealand.
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