Sunday, October 16, 2011

Ancestors Geneameme

 Jill at Geniaus has given us a challenge.  I'm up for it.  Here are the rules:
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 (color 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.
Here's mine:
  1. Can name my 16 great-great-grandparents
  2. Can name over 50 direct ancestors
  3. Have photographs or portraits of my 8 great-grandparents
  4. Have an ancestor who was married more than three times
  5. Have an ancestor who was a bigamist
  6. Met all four of my grandparents
  7. Met one or more of my great-grandparents [just one -- Mary Sudie Eppard Rucker]
  8. Named a child after an ancestor
  9. Bear an ancestor's given name/s
  10. Have an ancestor from Great Britain or Ireland
  11. Have an ancestor from Asia
  12. Have an ancestor from Continental Europe
  13. Have an ancestor from Africa
  14. Have an ancestor who was an agricultural labourer [seems like all of 'em]
  15. Have an ancestor who had large land holdings [not sure how large is large]
  16. Have an ancestor who was a holy man - minister, priest, rabbi [great-great uncle John Jollett, minister at Jollett United Methodist Church, in Jollett Hollow] 
  17. Have an ancestor who was a midwife
  18. Have an ancestor who was an author
  19. Have an ancestor with the surname Smith, Murphy or Jones [if you count people who married INTO the family]
  20. Have an ancestor with the surname Wong, Kim, Suzuki or Ng
  21. Have an ancestor with a surname beginning with X
  22. Have an ancestor with a forename beginning with Z [15 to be exact! Zachariah, Zephaniah, Zada, Zebedee, Zibiah, Zenith and Zella, to name a few]
  23. Have an ancestor born on 25th December [and her name is Mary Christmas Rucker]
  24. Have an ancestor born on New Year's Day
  25. Have blue blood in your family lines
  26. Have a parent who was born in a country different from my country of birth
  27. Have a grandparent who was born in a country different from my country of birth
  28. Can trace a direct family line back to the eighteenth century
  29. Can trace a direct family line back to the seventeenth century or earlier
  30. Have seen copies of the signatures of some of my great-grandparents
  31. Have ancestors who signed their marriage certificate with an X [probably]
  32. Have a grandparent or earlier ancestor who went to university
  33. Have an ancestor who was convicted of a criminal offence [horse thief and a murderer]
  34. Have an ancestor who was a victim of crime [being murdered by your brother-in-law surely counts]
  35. Have shared an ancestor's story online or in a magazine (Tell us where)
  36. Have published a family history online or in print (Details please)
  37. Have visited an ancestor's home from the 19th or earlier centuries [there's a house in Greene County, Virginia that belonged to my 4-great grandfather's sister.  I've seen pictures but never have visited]
  38. Still have an ancestor's home from the 19th or earlier centuries in the family
  39. Have a family bible from the 19th Century
  40. Have a pre-19th century family bible
Hey, not too bad!





2 comments:

  1. You certainly win the prize for the most zzzzzzzz's.
    Thanks for taking part in the challenge – it's given me an opportunity to meet new genealogists and hear about their ancestors.

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  2. I must have forgotten the house belonging to a sister of our 4th great grandfather?? Details pleas :-D

    I guess Thomas Frazier's book doesn't make him an author?

    Fun challenge!

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