My response to the Geneameme from Jill Ball at: http://geniaus.blogspot.com/
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?
1. Can name my 16 great-great-grandparents [yes, and then the brickwalls start after that]
2. Can name over 50 direct ancestors [yes]
3. Have photographs or portraits of my 8 great-grandparents
4. Have an ancestor who was married more than three times
5. Have an ancestor who was a bigamist
6. Met all four of my grandparents [yes, but met one at age one, so no memory of it.]
7. Met one or more of my great-grandparents
8. Named a child after an ancestor [game him my maiden name as middle name – does that count?]
9. Bear an ancestor's given name/s
10. Have an ancestor from Great Britain or Ireland [both]
11. Have an ancestor from Asia
12. Have an ancestor from Continental Europe [yes]
13. Have an ancestor from Africa [don’t we all? not in recent genealogical history though – mtDNA]
14. Have an ancestor who was an agricultural labourer [Virginia & Kentucky tobacco farmers]
15. Have an ancestor who had large land holdings [Kentucky & Virginia]
16. Have an ancestor who was a holy man – minister, priest, rabbi [preacher]
17. Have an ancestor who was a midwife
18. Have an ancestor who was an author
19. Have an ancestor with the surname Smith, Murphy or Jones [ oh yes]
20. Have an ancestor with the surname Wong, Kim, Suzuki or Ng
21. Have an ancestor with a surname beginning with X
22. Have an ancestor with a forename beginning with Z [Zachariah & on with middle name Zara]
23. Have an ancestor born on 25th December
24. Have an ancestor born on New Year's Day
25. Have blue blood in your family lines
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 eighteenth century [ yes]
29. Can trace a direct family line back to the seventeenth century or earlier [ yes, my Salem witch family]
30. Have seen copies of the signatures of some of my great-grandparents [yes]
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 [Salem witches gggggg aunts; not direct]
34. Have an ancestor who was a victim of crime [ again, Salem witches – this was actually crime against THEM]
35. Have shared an ancestor's story online or in a magazine (Tell us where) [blog & website:
http://www.nhalaw.com/debbie/ and http://debs-midlife.blogspot.com/
36. Have published a family history online or in print (Details please)
37. Have visited an ancestor's home from the 19th or earlier centuries
38. Still have an ancestor's home from the 19th or earlier centuries in the family
39. Have a family bible from the 19th Century
40. Have a pre-19th century family bible
