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:
- Can name my 16 great-great-grandparents
- Can name over 50 direct ancestors
- 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
- Met one or more of my great-grandparents [just one -- Mary Sudie Eppard Rucker]
- 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
- Have an ancestor from Africa
- Have an ancestor who was an agricultural labourer [seems like all of 'em]
- Have an ancestor who had large land holdings [not sure how large is large]
- 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]
- Have an ancestor who was a midwife
- Have an ancestor who was an author
- Have an ancestor with the surname Smith, Murphy or Jones [if you count people who married INTO the family]
- 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 beginning with Z [15 to be exact! Zachariah, Zephaniah, Zada, Zebedee, Zibiah, Zenith and Zella, to name a few]
- Have an ancestor born on 25th December [and her name is Mary Christmas Rucker]
- 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 [probably]
- Have a grandparent or earlier ancestor who went to university
- Have an ancestor who was convicted of a criminal offence [horse thief and a murderer]
- Have an ancestor who was a victim of crime [being murdered by your brother-in-law surely counts]
- Have shared an ancestor's story online or in a magazine (Tell us where)
- Have published a family history online or in print (Details please)
- 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]
- Still have an ancestor's home from the 19th or earlier centuries in the family
- Have a family bible from the 19th Century
- Have a pre-19th century family bible
You certainly win the prize for the most zzzzzzzz's.
ReplyDeleteThanks for taking part in the challenge – it's given me an opportunity to meet new genealogists and hear about their ancestors.
I must have forgotten the house belonging to a sister of our 4th great grandfather?? Details pleas :-D
ReplyDeleteI guess Thomas Frazier's book doesn't make him an author?
Fun challenge!