The list should be annotated in the following manner:
Things you have already done
or found: bold face type
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?
Which of these apply to you?
1.
Can name my
16 great-great-grandparents
2.
Can name over
50 direct ancestors
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 – more than one ancestor, one was a bigamist three
times that I know. All close relations to each other.
6.
Met all four
of my grandparents
7.
Met one or
more of my great-grandparents (A perk of being the oldest of the oldest.)
8.
Named a child
after an ancestor – all of my children
9.
Bear an
ancestor's given name/s
10.
Have an
ancestor from Great Britain or Ireland -unlike most people, one small
branch
11.
Have an ancestor
from Asia
12.
Have an
ancestor from Continental Europe – all the others
13.
Have an ancestor
from Africa
14.
Have an ancestor
who was an agricultural labourer - many
15.
Have an ancestor
who had large land holdings – several more than
160 acres
16.
Have an
ancestor who was a holy man – minister, priest, rabbi – he was also removed
for something he said
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 – Catherine Smith, wish me
luck.
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 beginniing with Z
23.
Have an
ancestor born on 25th December -plenty but nobody direct
24.
Have an ancestor born
on New Year's Day -plenty but not direct
25.
Have blue blood
in your family lines
26.
Have a parent
who was born in a country different from my country of birth – my dad
27.
Have a
grandparent who was born in a country different from my country of birth -
two
28.
Can trace a
direct family line back to the eighteenth century - many
29.
Can trace a
direct family line back to the seventeenth century or earlier - many
30.
Have seen
copies of the signatures of some of my great-grandparents – I collect
signatures
31.
Have
ancestors who signed their marriage certificate with an X
32.
Have a
grandparent or earlier ancestor who went to university – My uncle was first, I
was second
33.
Have an
ancestor who was convicted of a criminal offence A few fights, and hunting off season
34.
Have an ancestor
who was a victim of crime -nothing other than a few thefts. My husband’s had a 5
family members murdered, it was on America’s Most Wanted
35.
Have shared an
ancestor's story online or in a magazine–
Blog, genealogy and historical magazines
36.
Have
published a family history online or in print Three books, working on 4th
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
Wow! You have a lot of yeses!
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