Saturday Night Genealogy Fun: Expanded Ancestor's Geneameme

You've heard of the game of 20 Questions, right?  How about 70 questions?  That's how many Randy Seaver is asking readers to answer for today's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun.

Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission:  Impossible! music), is:

(1) Jill Ball created a 40-question "Ancestors' Geneameme" in 2011, and Linda Stufflebean recently expanded it to 70 questions on her Empty Branches on the Family Tree blog.

(2) Let's do Linda's expanded list this week for SNGF.

(3) Copy and paste the list of questions below and replace my answers with your own.

(4) Share your answers as a comment on this b;og post, in your own blog post, or on Facebook or Google+.   Please leave a comment and al ink to your answer in a comment on this blog post.

Ok, here are my answers.

1. Can name my 16 great-great-grandparents  Yes
2. Can name my 32 great-great-great-grandparents  No
3. Can name more than 50 ancestors  Yes
4. Have photos or portraits of my 8 great-grandparents  Yes
5. Have an ancestor who was married more than three times  Yes
6. Have an ancestor who was a bigamist  Not that I know of
7. Met all four of my grandparents  Yes
8. Met one or more of my great-grandparents  Yes, rumor has it
9. Bear an ancestor’s given name/s  No
10. Named a child after an ancestor  No
11. Have an ancestor from Great Britain or Ireland  Yes
12. Have an ancestor from Asia  Not that I know of
13. Have an ancestor from continental Europe  Yes
14. Have an ancestor from Africa  Not that I know of within recent history
15. Have an ancestor who was an agricultural laborer  Yes
16. Have an ancestor who had large land holdings  Not that I know of
17. Have an ancestor who was a holy man:  minister, priest, rabbi  Yes
18. Have an ancestor who was a midwife  Not that I know of
19. Have an ancestor who was an author  Not that I know of
20. Have an ancestor with the surname Wong, Kim, Suzuki, or Ng    No
21. Have an ancestor with the surname Smith, Murphy, or Jones   Not that I know of
22. Have an ancestor with a surname beginning with X  No
23. Have an ancestor with a forename beginning with Z Yes
24. Have an ancestor born on 25 December  Not that I know of
25. Have an ancestor born on New Year’s Day  Not that I know of (whose New Year?)
26. Have an ancestor who shares your day and month of birth  Not that I know of
27. Have blue blood in your family lines  Yes
28. Have a parent who was born in a country different from my country of birth  No
29. Have a grandparent who was born in a country different from my country of birth  No
30. Can trace a family line back to the 18th century  Yes
31. Can trace a family line back to the 17th century  Yes
32. Can trace a family line back to the 16th century  Yes
33. Have seen signatures of some of my great-grandparents  Yes
34. Have ancestors who signed with an X (or other mark)  Yes
35. Have a grandparent or earlier ancestor who went to university  No
36. Have an ancestor convicted of a criminal offense  Not that I know of
37. Have an ancestor who was a victim of crime  Yes
38. Have shared an ancestor’s story online or in a magazine/periodical  Yes
39. Have published a family history online or in print  Yes
40. Have visited an ancestor’s home from the 19th or earlier centuries  Yes
41. Have a family Bible from the 19th century  No
42. Have a family Bible from the 18th century or earlier  No
43. Have an ancestor who was part of a multiple birth (twins, etc.)  Not that I know of
44. Have a family member who closely resembles an ancestor  Yes
45. Have an ancestor who owned their own business  Yes
46. Have an ancestor who belonged to a trade guild  Not that I know of
47. Have an ancestor who moved more than 100 miles away from his/her birth home, EXCLUDING immigration to another country  Yes
48. Have an ancestor who gave birth to twelve or more children  Yes
49. Have an ancestor with a rare/unusual/uncommon forename  Yes
50. Have an ancestral family who changed their surname  Yes
51. Have a passenger list or travel manifest for an ancestor  Yes
52. Have an ancestor who was adopted  Yes
53. Have an ancestor who adopted a child  Yes
54. Have a naturalization record for an ancestor  Yes
55. Have an ancestor who received a military pension  Yes
56. Have a school record or school census for an ancestor  Yes
57. Have an ancestor with a gravestone still in existence from the 18th century  Yes
58. Have an ancestor with a gravestone still in existence from the 17th century or earlier  Not that I know of
59. Have an ancestor who had only one child who survived to adulthood  Yes
60. Are descended twice from one couple  Yes
61. Are descended three times or more from one couple  Yes
62. Are descended from an American president or other political figure  Not that I know of
63. Are descended from a person famous in history, other than in politics  Yes
64. Have an ancestor with a rare/unusual/unique surname  Yes
65. Have an ancestor who you have found mentioned in a pre-1870 newspaper  Yes
66. Can name the ship on which at least one ancestor emigrated  Yes
67. Have a female ancestor who worked outside the home pre-World War II  Yes
68. Know of at least one ancestor who returned to the ancestral home after emigration  Yes
69. Know of at least one ancestor who permanently returned to the ancestral home after emigration  No
70. Have an ancestor who was survived by 50 or more grandchildren  No

So I have 43 yeses out of 70.  I was expecting more.  Guess I have work to do!