A host of people responded to my Ancestors' Geneameme challenge and I had enormous fun reading the posts. Thanks to the genies from all around the world who took part in this challenge.
I couldn't be a party pooper so am responding as well.
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
Which of these apply to you?
- Can name my 16 great-great-grandparents (If I work bck branch by branch I can recall their names)
- 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 (Have to wait till I go to heaven! Met my two grandmothers and they were both around for my wedding. Can't remember the grandfather I met)
- Met one or more of my great-grandparents (Have a photo with Granny Pusell - she died when I was a bub)
- Named a child after an ancestor (Not intentionally)
- Bear an ancestor's given name/s (Wish I did - Change by Deed poll?)
- Have an ancestor from Great Britain or Ireland (all the pre-Australian ones)
- Have an ancestor from Asia
- Have an ancestor from Continental Europe
- Have an ancestor from Africa
- Have an ancestor who was an agricultural labourer (Who hasn't?)
- Have an ancestor who had large land holdings (Grandfather had 48,000 acres out of Cobar and walked away when times were tough)
- Have an ancestor who was a holy man - minister, priest, rabbi
- Have an ancestor who was a midwife (A direct ancestor on mother's side - can't find it in my database)
- Have an ancestor who was an author (Many were illiterate)
- Have an ancestor with the surname Smith, Murphy or Jones (All three names are in my tree)
- 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 (4 in the tree - no directs)
- Have an ancestor born on New Year's Day (7 in tree - no directs)
- 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 (Don't hink they could all write)
- Have ancestors who signed their marriage certificate with an X (Lots)
- Have a grandparent or earlier ancestor who went to university (My generation is the first to go to university)
- Have an ancestor who was convicted of a criminal offence (Over a dozen)
- Have an ancestor who was a victim of crime
- Have shared an ancestor's story online or in a magazine (Tell us where) Geniaus Blog
- Have published a family history online or in print (Details please) Geniaus website
- 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 (Would love to find one)
That was something very informative for me, the information that you have provided has added a lot to my knowledge about the subject. Thank you
ReplyDeleteIt's good to read your responses too Jill. With all those Z names did you have non-conformists in your tree?
ReplyDelete@cassmob - I'll have to go back and look at the Z names info - I was surrised at how many there were too.
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