GeneaMeme

Saturday Night Genealogy Fun

Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music here) is to:
1) Participate in the Ancestors GeneaMeme created by Jill Ball on the Geniaus blog back in 2011!

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?

1.  Can name my 16 great-great-grandparents
2.  Can name over 50 direct ancestors – in software
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 – but my mom’s father died when I was 4
7.  Met one or more of my great-grandparents – picture with one as a 1 1/2 year old
8.  Named a child after an ancestor
9.  Bear an ancestor’s given name/s
10.  Have an ancestor from Great Britain or Ireland – Hammond and Ralston lines
11.  Have an ancestor from Asia
12.  Have an ancestor from Continental Europe – Briles line
13.  Have an ancestor from Africa
14.  Have an ancestor who was an agricultural labourer
15.  Have an ancestor who had large land holdings – if 160 acres is considered large
16.  Have an ancestor who was a holy man – minister, priest, rabbi
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 – at least 2 SMITH lines, 1 Jones lne
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 beginnining with Z
23.  Have an ancestor born on 25th December
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 – Briles – part of 2nd Germanna colony
29.  Can trace a direct family line back to the seventeenth century or earlier -Hammond part of great migration
30.  Have seen copies of the signatures of some of my great-grandparents
31.  Have ancestors who signed their marriage certificate with an X
32.  Have a grandparent or earlier ancestor who went to university – Hiram Currey of Peoria was a lawyer
33.  Have an ancestor who was convicted of a criminal offence
34.  Have an ancestor who was a victim of crime
35.  Have shared an ancestor’s story online or in a magazine (Tell us where) – this Heartland Genealogy Blog
36.  Have published a family history online or in print (Details please) – no longer online but I used The Master Genealogist and Second Site to put my file online
37.  Have visited an ancestor’s home from the 19th or earlier centuries – Briles homestead in Coffey County, Kansas
38.  Still have an ancestor’s home from the 19th or earlier centuries in the family – Briles homestead
39.  Have a  family bible from the 19th Century
40.  Have a pre-19th century family bible – photocopy