Jill Ball at Geniaus initiated a great meme for us bloggers entitled:
The Ancestors’ Geneameme
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
Here are my answers
- Can name my 16 great-great-grandparents
- Can name over 50 direct ancestors (getting close)
- Have photographs or portraits of my 8 great-grandparents (not quite – working on this!)
- 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 (Great Grandpa Frank Woodland)
- Named a child after an ancestor
- Bear an ancestor’s given name/s
- 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
- Have an ancestor who had large land holdings – maybe not large but land holdings for sure.
- Have an ancestor who was a holy man – minister, priest, rabbi
- Have an ancestor who was a midwife (my Grandmother Isabel Irvine – nurse and midwife who delivered 30 babies!)
- Have an ancestor who was an author (my Grandmother Isabel Irvine recorded her family history)
- Have an ancestor with the surname Smith, Murphy or Jones (nope, but finding my Irish Kerrs is like searching for a needle in the haystack)
- Have an ancestor with the surname Wong, Kim, Suzuki or Ng (my daughter in law might)
- Have an ancestor with a surname beginning with X
- Have an ancestor with a forename beginning with Z
- Have an ancestor born on 25th December
- Have an ancestor born on New Year’s Day
- Have blue blood in your family lines – nope, but does a being a descendant of une fille du roi count? 🙂
- Have a parent who was born in a country different from my country of birth – no
- Have a grandparent who was born in a country different from my country of birth – yes two, Ireland and Scotland
- 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
- 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 (Tell us where) – blog posts! Also published my Grandmother Irvine’s story in local gen society newsletter the Chinook.
- Have published a family history online or in print (Details please) – again blog posts. In print – Isabel (Woodland) Irvine: Women Pioneers of Saskatchewan by B. Joan Miller and Robert F. Irvine.
- Have visited an ancestor’s home from the 19th or earlier centuries (on the wish list!)
- Still have an ancestor’s home from the 19th or earlier centuries in the family
- Have a family bible from the 19th Century – my mother in law has one which belonged to my father in law’s family
- Have a pre-19th century family bible