SNGF - A new Meme Going Around

For this week's round of Saturday Night Genealogy Fun Randy has challenged:

Your missin, should you decide to accept it is to:

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 

Which of these apply to you?

1.  Can name my 16 great-great-grandparents
2.  Can name over 50 direct ancestors
[Well, not off the top of my head and I'm not going into my database to count the exact number but well over 50]
3.  Have photographs or portraits of my 8 great-grandparents
[I have a least one photo of 7 of the 8. I hold out hope that there is a cousin out there that has a photo of James C Kelly to share]
4.  Have an ancestor who was married more than three times
[Not that I've discovered but there are a couple of cousins that fit the bill]
5.  Have an ancestor who was a bigamist   
[No bigamists in the tree that I can think of off the top of my head. At least one polygamist cousin]
6.  Met all four of my grandparents [Grandpa Carlisle died when I was a month old]
7.  Met one or more of my great-grandparents
[All had died before I was born]
8.  Named a child after an ancestor
[Both my children are named for ancestors]
9.  Bear an ancestor's given name/s
[I was named for my great-grandmother, Charlotte T.K. Hollington Berry Sanders.
10.  Have an ancestor from Great Britain or Ireland
[Most of my ancestors were from the British Isles]
11.  Have an ancestor from Asia
12.  Have an ancestor from Continental Europe
[Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands]
13.  Have an ancestor from Africa
14.  Have an ancestor who was an agricultural labourer
[A long line of farmers]
15.  Have an ancestor who had large land holdings 
[Define large?]
16.  Have an ancestor who was a holy man - minister, priest, rabbi
[My granduncle was a Baptist minister]
17.  Have an ancestor who was a midwife
[I assume so. Anna Camfield Carlisle was called when a baby was coming but was never refered to specifically as a midwife]
18.  Have an ancestor who was an author
[Several cousins but no ancestors that I've discovered. I do have a DESCENDANT I'm quite proud of]
19.  Have an ancestor with the surname Smith, Murphy or Jones
[Susannah Smith, currenly lots of bricks by her name]
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
[Zerrababel Eager]
23.  Have an ancestor born on 25th December
[A DESCENDANT was]
24. Have an ancestor born on New Year's Day
25.  Have blue blood in your family 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
[My paternal grandparents were born in Canada]
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
32.  Have a grandparent or earlier ancestor who went to university
[Grandma went to business school. Great-grandma went to Normal school]
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 (Tell us where)
[Doesn't my blog count?]
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
[Carlisle home, Buchanan, MI. It was torn down a few years sgo.]
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
[Cousin has the Bible, I'm happy to have photocopies]
40.  Have a pre-19th century family bible