Things I have already done or found
Things I would like to have done or found
Things I haven’t done or found
Things I would like to have done or found
Things I haven’t done or found
- Can name my 16 great-great-grandparents (if the adopted ones count)
- Can name over 50 direct ancestors (wait ... does this mean from memory!? I can't even remember my own name some days!)
- Have photographs or portraits of my 8 great-grandparents (again, if the adopted ones count)
- Have an ancestor who was married more than three times
- Have an ancestor who was a bigamist
- Met all four of my grandparents (2 are still living!)
- Met one or more of my great-grandparents
- Named a child after an ancestor
- Bear an ancestor's given name
- 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 (if that's a nice way of saying "farmer," then I have a whole tree full of 'em!)
- Have an ancestor who had large land holdings
- Have an ancestor who was a holy (wo)man - minister, priest, rabbi (nuns count too, right?)
- 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 (it was actually his middle name, but it was the name he went by throughout his life, does that count?)
- Have an ancestor born on 25th December
- Have an ancestor born on New Year's Day
- Have blue blood in your family lines (see my post here)
- 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 (see my post here)
- Have ancestors who signed their marriage certificate with an X
- 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
- Have published a family history online or in print
- 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
I would have marked "have parents from a different country" because that would be totally cool, but that would mean I would have different parents ... and I don't want to hurt anyone's feelings today. (Except that my mom already knows I want to be adopted by Paula Deen).
1 comments:
Thanks, Jenny, for responding to the meme. Of course your Z name counts - it's a forename in my book.
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