I've been obsessively researching a gentleman using a false name and have quite neglected this blog.
The Ancestors' Geneameme
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
- Can name my 16 great-great-grandparents (Unless one of my maternal gt grandmothers rises from the grave and tells us who fathered her children I'll never know)
- Can name over 50 direct ancestors (56 wheee...)
- Have photographs or portraits of my 8 great-grandparents
- Have an ancestor who was married more than three times
- Have an ancestor who was a bigamist
- Met all four of my grandparents (Like Geniaus, this will have to wait for another life or another turn of the wheel. One grandfather died before his son was married)
- Met one or more of my great-grandparents
- Named a child after an ancestor
- Bear an ancestor's given name/s
- Have an ancestor from Great Britain or Ireland.
- Have an ancestor from Asia
- Have an ancestor from Continental Europe (presumably my 3x gt grandfather was French; anyway the name is French or Swiss)
- Have an ancestor from Africa
- Have an ancestor who was an agricultural labourer (Who hasn't?)
- Have an ancestor who had large land holdings
- Have an ancestor who was a holy man - minister, priest, rabbi (does lay preacher count? my grandfather was one)
- Have an ancestor who was a midwife
- Have an ancestor who was an author (we were still signing our names with an X in the early 20th century)
- 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 (Zacariah, Zachary, Zarah, Zillah, Zonaier)
- Have an ancestor born on 25th December (not yet)
- Have an ancestor born on New Year's Day (not yet)
- Have blue blood in your family lines
- Have a parent who was born in a country different from my country of birth (my mother was born in England)
- Have a grandparent who was born in a country different from my country of birth (my maternal grandparents were born in Norfolk)
- 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 (Lots)
- Have a grandparent or earlier ancestor who went to university
- Have an ancestor who was convicted of a criminal offence (4 convicts in my father's line)
- Have an ancestor who was a victim of crime
- Have shared an ancestor's story online or in a magazine
- Have published a family history online or in print
- Have visited an ancestor's home from the 19th or earlier centuries (In Australia, England, Ireland, Scotland)
- Still have an ancestor's home from the 19th or earlier centuries in the family
- Have a family bible from the 19th Century (Paternal great-grandparents)
- Have a pre-19th century family bible
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