Tonight’s Saturday Night Genealogy Fun posted by Randy Seaver over at Genea-Musings is to fill out the The Ancestors’ Geneameme posted by Geniaus Blog.

This is the list and instructions:

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
6. Met all four of my grandparents
7. Met one or more of my great-grandparents[they met me, but I don’t recall meeting them]
8. Named a child after an ancestor
9. Bear an ancestor’s given name/s [give name one grandmother, middle name another]
10. Have an ancestor from Great Britain or Ireland [many from England, 1 from Scotland, no Irish yet]
11. Have an ancestor from Asia
12. Have an ancestor from Continental Europe [Germany]
13. Have an ancestor from Africa
14. Have an ancestor who was an agricultural labourer [quite a few]
15. Have an ancestor who had large land holdings [how large is large?]
16. Have an ancestor who was a holy man – minister, priest, rabbi
17. Have an ancestor who was a midwife
18. Have an ancestor who was an author [great grandmother wrote and published a poem, my mother is published :D]
19. Have an ancestor with the surname Smith, Murphy or Jones [Three lines of Smith]
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 beginnining with Z [great Aunt Zetta]
23. Have an ancestor born on 25th December [Ruth Terry b. 1750, Mary Terry b. 1752, Meredith Martin b. 1851]
24. Have an ancestor born on New Year’s Day [Bridget Winthrop b. 1529]
25. Have blue blood in your family lines [If Winthrop counts]
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 [ I found census that 2 great grandfather enumerated]
31. Have ancestors who signed their marriage certificate with an X
32. Have a grandparent or earlier ancestor who went to university [Ohio State, Michigan State, Wooster there are others but I am not sure where they attended]
33. Have an ancestor who was convicted of a criminal offence
34. Have an ancestor who was a victim of crime
35. Have shared an ancestor’s story online or in a magazine (Tell us where) [The now defunct AOL Golden Gate Genealogy Forum, also defunct GenealogyForum.org, my own website http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mytree/Tree2.html]
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

If any of my readers would like to do this, post a link!  It will be fun to see how much work we all have done and still need to do.

Happy Hunting!