A blog about genealogy and thoughts about the various roots and branches of my family tree as well as the times in which my ancestors lived.Included are the West, White,and McFarland families.WARNING:DO NOT TAKE ALL OF MY FAMILY RECORDS AS GOSPEL. ALWAYS CONFIRM YOUR OWN RESEARCH!
Saturday, October 15, 2011
THE ANCESTORS' GENEAMEME
Geniaus has come up with a new geneameme, The Ancestors' Geneameme
and the instructions to fill in the information are as follow:
Things I have already done or found: bold face type
Things I would like to do or find: italicize (colour optional)
Things I haven’t done or found and don’t care to: plain type
Can name my 16 great-great-grandparents (I'm missing the last name of
2x great grandfather Michael McFarland's wife Nora)
Can name over 50 direct ancestors
Have photographs or portraits of my 8 great-grandparents
Have an ancestor who was married more than three times
Have an ancestor who was a bigamist
Met all four of my grandparents (Never met my Mom's father)
Met one or more of my great-grandparents
Named a child after an ancestor
Bear an ancestor's given name/s
Have an ancestor from Great Britain or Ireland (Many)
Have an ancestor from Africa
Have an ancestor from Asia
Have an ancestor from Continental Europe (Germany)
Have an ancestor who was an agricultural labourer
Have an ancestor who had large land holdings
Have an ancestor who was a holy man - minister, priest, rabbi
Have an ancestor who was a midwife
Have an ancestor who was an author
Have an ancestor with the surname Smith, Murphy or Jones
Have an ancestor with the surname Wong, Kim, Suzuki or Ng
Have an ancestor with a surname beginning with X
Have an ancestor with a forename beginnining with Z (Zerviahs Holt & Abbott)
Have an ancestor born on 25th December
Have an ancestor born on New Year's Day
Have blue blood in your family lines
Have a parent who was born in a country different from my country of birth
Have a grandparent who was born in a country different from my country of birth
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
Have published a family history online or in print
Have visited an ancestor's home from the 19th or earlier centuries
Still have an ancestor's home from the 19th or earlier centuries in the family
Have a family bible from the 19th Century
Have a pre-19th century family bible
Some of the things that I haven't done are simply things I can't do for
various reasons even if I wanted to do them, like meeting all four of
my grandparents.
Another interesting meme! Thanks, Geniaus!
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family history,
genealogy
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Thanks, Bill,for your response to the meme.
Yes, it's sad that so many of us didn't get a chance to meet our grandparents.
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