Sometimes I’m late to these, but her is Randy Seaver’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun for this week. He had completed The Ancestors’ GeneaMeme from Geniaus.
According to the instructions, 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
- Can name over 50 direct ancestors [with a little help from my genealogy program]
- Have photographs or portraits of my 8 great-grandparents
- Have an ancestor who was married more than three times [Don’t think more than 3, but I have a few 3-timers]
- Have an ancestor who was a bigamist [Not that I found, yet]
- Met all four of my grandparents [Yes, and fortunately, two are still with us]
- Met one or more of my great-grandparents [I, fortunately, remember meeting 3 of them, but 5 were alive when I was a baby]
- Named a child after an ancestor [If you count middle names. Our daughter Aerissa’s middle name is Jean after my mother’s and my grandmother’s middle name]
- Bear an ancestor’s given name/s
- Have an ancestor from Great Britain or Ireland [CORRIGAN, McCANN, THOMPSON]
- Have an ancestor from Asia
- Have an ancestor from Continental Europe
- Have an ancestor from Africa
- Have an ancestor who was an agricultural laborer [Probably a good 75%+]
- Have an ancestor who had large land holdings [I’m told one of my ancestors had a good sum of money, which I also assume land was involved]
- 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
- 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 beginning 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 [Nobility, no, but my great-grandfather, Joseph ZALEWSKI, was a police officer. They’re sometimes called Blue Bloods. My wife’s line has the noblility]
- 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 [More than likely, I just haven’t seen it]
- 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 (Tell us where) [on here, more than likely, many times]
- Have published a family history online or in print (Details please) [Would like to someday]
- 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
- Have a pre-19th century family bible
