Just for fun, prompted from the blog Geniaus. Here’s “The Ancestors’ Geneameme”
KEY:
Things you have already done or found: bold face type
Things you would like to do or find: italicize (color optional)
Things you haven’t done or found and don’t care to: plain type
Extra comments and details are in brackets.
Which of these apply to you?
- Can name my 16 great-great-grandparents: no, but I can name 15 of them!
- Can name over 50 direct ancestors
- Have photographs or portraits of my 8 great-grandparents (I have photos of 5: Elizabeth Murphy, Charles Robert Duncan, Cametta Marie Hutchinson, John William Updegraff, and Valentin Stossier. Missing: Maria Pröll, Juliana Rauscher, and Kilian Pirolt.
- Have an ancestor who was married more than three times (I don’t think so)
- Have an ancestor who was a bigamist (I hope not!)
- Met all four of my grandparents (Unfortunately no, Grandma Kate: Katherine Murphy-Updegraff and Opa: Johann Pirolt passed before I was born)
- Met one or more of my great-grandparents (Yes! My dear Nana- Elizabeth Murphy)
- Named a child after an ancestor (No children, but if that time ever comes I’ll definitely consider a family name)
- Bear an ancestor’s given name/s (Yes! I’m named after Grandma Kate)
- Have an ancestor from Great Britain or Ireland (lots!)
- Have an ancestor from Asia
- Have an ancestor from Continental Europe (lots!)
- Have an ancestor from Africa
- Have an ancestor who was an agricultural labourer (lots!)
- Have an ancestor who had large land holdings (The Hutchison family owned and farmed large amounts of land in Indiana, Pennsylvania and Butler, Pennsylvania in the early 1800’s)
- Have an ancestor who was a holy man – minister, priest, rabbi
- Have an ancestor who was a midwife (I don’t think so, but I wouldn’t be surprised)
- 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 (Supposedly my 8th great grandmother is Zerviah Stanley, born in England and died in Portsmouth, New Hampshire)
- Have an ancestor born on 25th December
- Have an ancestor born on New Year’s Day
- Have blue blood in your family lines (I doubt it and don’t really care)
- Have a parent who was born in a country different from my country of birth (My Dad was born in Austria)
- Have a grandparent who was born in a country different from my country of birth (Both of my paternal grandparents were born in Austria)
- Can trace a direct family line back to the eighteenth century (The Hutchison line is my most sourced line going back to the American Revolution)
- Can trace a direct family line back to the seventeenth century or earlier (I do, but not much of it is sourced so I don’t think it counts just yet)
- Have seen copies of the signatures of some of my great-grandparents (yes, thanks to draft records)
- 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 offense
- Have an ancestor who was a victim of crime (???)
- Have shared an ancestor’s story online or in a magazine (https://katiesgrove.wordpress.com)
- Have published a family history online or in print
- Have visited an ancestor’s home from the 19th or earlier centuries (Yes, in 1850 the Pirolt family moved into a home that had been built around 1500. It remained in the Pirolt family until 2002. It’s since been declared an historical site by the Austrian government)
- Still have an ancestor’s home from the 19th or earlier centuries in the family (Unfortunately not, see #37)
- Have a family bible from the 19th Century (no, but that would certainly be great!)
- Have a pre-19th century family bible
Thanks, Katie, for joining the Ancestors’ Geneameme challenge.
How fortunate you are to have had a family home declared an historic site by the Austrian government.