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 [No, I wish - one day!]
- 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
- Named a child after an ancestor
- Bear an ancestor's given name/s
- Have an ancestor from Great Britain or Ireland [Irish & proud!]
- Have an ancestor from Asia
- Have an ancestor from Continental Europe [Denmark]
- Have an ancestor from Africa
- Have an ancestor who was an agricultural labourer [Diary & wheat farmers, Orange to Inverell, NSW, Australia]
- Have an ancestor who had large land holdings
- 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 [Smith alias Fitzgerald]
- 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
- Have an ancestor born on 25th December [I have a brother-in-law & 2 on Australia Day!]
- Have an ancestor born on New Year's Day
- Have blue blood in your family lines [Related to William the Conqueror but isn't everyone?]
- Have a parent who was born in a country different from that of my birth
- Have a grandparent who was born in a country different from my country of birth [Bournemouth and Islington - London, England]
- Can trace a direct family line back to the 18th century
- Can trace a direct family line back to the 17th century or earlier
- Have seen copies of the signatures of some of my great-grandparents [GGGGG grandparent - Edward Turley Smith]
- Have ancestors who signed their marriage certificate with an X [Jane Maher, partner to Edward Turley Smith]
- Have a grandparent or earlier ancestor who went to university
- Have an ancestor who was convicted of a criminal offence [Many, 7 convicts all up. Crimes ranging from fraud, theft, receiving stolen goods, brothel madam, bushranger, highway robbery etc etc etc]
- Have an ancestor who was a victim of crime
- Have shared an ancestor's story online or in a magazine [AFTC, regional daily newspapers, SMH, Inside History, Irish Wattle]
- Have published a family history online or in print [One Family History: 220 years in Australia - http://irishwattle.com/products]
- Have visited an ancestor's home from the 19th or earlier centuries [Cunningham Creek , home of Thomas Readford in Ilford, NSW. Thomas was father to Harry Readford, the bushranger Captain Starlight]
- Still have an ancestor's home from 19th century or earlier in the family
- Have a family bible from the 19th Century
- Have a pre-19th century family bible
Thanks for participating in the meme challenge.
ReplyDeleteYou only have half the number of crims that I have ;-)