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Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - Jill Ball's Ancestor Meme

   It's Saturday Night - 

time for more Genealogy Fun! 


Your mission, should you decide to accept it (cue the Mission Impossible music here) is to:

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, in a Facebook Status post or note.

The Rules, and the Meme list, is given below in my response.


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 in brackets after each item

The Meme:
 
Which of these apply to you?

1.  Can name my 16 great-great-grandparents
2.  Can name over 50 direct ancestors (I am not sure all from memory)
3.  Have photographs or portraits of my 8 great-grandparents
4.  Have an ancestor who was married more than three times (Not one that I know of)
5.  Have an ancestor who was a bigamist (not found one yet)
6.  Met all four of my grandparents (My grandfather died 19 years before I was born).
7.  Met one or more of my great-grandparents 
8.  Named a child after an ancestor 
9.  Bear an ancestor's given name/s
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
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 (My great-grandfather was a minister.
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
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
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 (Not that I have found as of today)
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
29.  Can trace a direct family line back to the seventeenth 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 (Not that I know of)
32.  Have a grandparent or earlier ancestor who went to university
33. Have an ancestor who was convicted of a criminal offense 
34.  Have an ancestor who was a victim of crime
35.  Have shared an ancestor's story online or in a magazine (here on the blog)
36.  Have published a family history online or in print (One day!)
37.  Have visited an ancestor's home from the 19th or earlier centuries (A hope of mine in the future!)
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
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