It's hard to get back into the swing of things when your routine has been seriously disrupted. So I didn't quite post for last week's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun, although I intended to. But I'm gamely trying again this week, as Randy Seaver brings back a meme from 2011 for this week's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun (which we did a variation on in 2017).
1. Participate in the Ancestors GeneaMeme created by Jill Ball on the Geniaus blog back in 2011!
2. Write your own blog post, or add your response as a comment to this blog post or in a Facebook Status post or note.
The Rules:
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 after each item.
Okay, here are my answers.
5. Have an ancestor who was a bigamist (so far)
6. Met all four of my grandparents
7. Met one or more of my great-grandparents (so I was told)
8. Named a child after an ancestor
9. Bear an ancestor's given name/s (but have the initials of two of my great-grandfathers)
10. Have an ancestor from Great Britain or Ireland
11. Have an ancestor from Asia
12. Have an ancestor from continental Europe
13. Have an ancestor from Africa (do I count what shows in my DNA?)
14. Have an ancestor who was an agricultural labourer (many)
15. Have an ancestor who had large land holdings
16. Have an ancestor who was a holy man: minister, priest, rabbi (ministers and rabbis!)
17. Have an ancestor who was a midwife
18. Have an ancestor who was an author (would be nice)
19. Have an ancestor with the surname Smith, Murphy, or Jones (plenty of cousins, but no ancestors)
20. Have an ancestor with the surname Wong, Kim, Suzuki, or Ng (I have some Wongs in extended family, but that's it0)
21. Have an ancestor with a surname beginning with X
22. Have an ancestor with a forename beginning with Z
23. Have an ancestor born on 25 December
24. Have an ancestor born on New Year's Day (whose New Year?)
25. Have "blue blood" in your family lines (everyone with ancestors from Western Europe is descended from Charlemagne, right?)
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 18th century
29. Can trace a direct family line back to the 17th century or earlier
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
33. Have an ancestor who was convicted of a criminal offence (I think so)
34. Have an ancestor who was a victim of crime
35. Have shared an ancestor's story online or in a magazine (oh heavens yes)
36. Have published a family history online or in print
37. Have visited an ancestor's home from the 19th or earlier centuries (in beautiful New Jersey)
38. Still have an ancestor's home from the 19th or earlier centuries in the family (I believe so)
39. Have a family bible from the 19th century
40. Have a pre-19th century family bible
I had two ministers in my tree that I lost when I had to prune out the wrong Judith Haskell. I lost the Rev. John White and the Rev. John Wise. I was sorry to see them go.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite ancestors (I've written about her three times?) is the Quaker "minister" who prayed and testified from her knees when she became too elderly to stand for a sermon.
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