SNGF: Ancestor's GeneaMeme

 For tonight's Saturday Night Genealogy Fun, Randy Seaver at Genea-Musings suggested:

1)  Participate in the Ancestors GeneaMeme created by Jill Ball on the Geniaus blog.

2)  Write your own blog post, or add your response as a comment to this blog post, in a Facebook Status post or note, or in a Google+ Stream item.

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

[I've added some notes in brackets]

The Meme:

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  [I have photographs of 6 of my 16 gg-grandparents]
4.  Have an ancestor who was married more than three times  [several]
5.  Have an ancestor who was a bigamist.  [I am unsure the correct term was chosen here. Bigamy is always a crime, by definition. Someone who has a polygamist ancestor doesn't have a bigamist ancestor, as long as it was legal.]
6.  Met all four of my grandparents [3/4]
7.  Met one or more of my great-grandparents  [1]

8.  Named a child after an ancestor. [No children yet. Getting married next year...]

9.  Bear an ancestor's given name/s [My Hebrew name 'Baruch' is after my great-grandfather Barney]
10.  Have an ancestor from Great Britain or Ireland
11.  Have an ancestor from Asia [No identified ancestor]
12.  Have an ancestor from Continental Europe
13.  Have an ancestor from Africa [No identified ancestor, though I'm sure if I were able to trace my ancestry back far enough...]
14.  Have an ancestor who was an agricultural labourer [Both of my maternal grandparents grew up on a farm.  I have to go a few generations further back on my father's side.]
15.  Have an ancestor who had large land holdings
16.  Have an ancestor who was a holy man - minister, priest, rabbi [Methodist and Mennonite]
17.  Have an ancestor who was a midwife [A great grandmother practiced midwifery in Chicago after emigrating from Transylvania]
18.  Have an ancestor who was an author [Ancestry's OneFamilyTree states Chaucer as my 18th great grandfather, but I have disproven that relationship. I do have a close ancestor who published a book on legal matters.]
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 [I used to believe all my blood was blue, before it was oxygenated. However, this scientific myth is allegedly inaccurate. OneFamilyTree would tell you I have royal ancestry, but I haven't verified my lines.]
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 [1/4]
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 [All 8 I believe.]
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 [Both of my grandfathers. One of my grandmothers took college courses, though she didn't get a degree. My other grandmother enrolled at a university, but changed her mind, and didn't attend.]
33. Have an ancestor who was convicted of a criminal offence
34.  Have an ancestor who was a victim of crime. [No serious crime I can think of offhand. Not counting petty theft.]
35.  Have shared an ancestor's story online or in a magazine [I'm a genealogy blogger. That's what I do.]

36.  Have published a family history online or in print

37.  Have visited an ancestor's home from the 19th or earlier centuries [Have plans to do so next year.]
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