The 99+ Genealogy Things Meme

From MoSGA

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 (color optional)

  
• Things you haven’t done or found and don’t care to: plain type
  

• Belong to a genealogical society.
  
• Researched records onsite at a court house.
  
• Transcribed records.
  
• Uploaded tombstone pictures to Find-A-Grave.
  
• Documented ancestors for four generations (self, parents, grandparents, great-grandparents) .
  
• Joined Facebook.
  
• Helped to clean up a run-down cemetery.
  
• Joined the Genea-Bloggers Group on Facebook.
  
• Attended a genealogy conference.
  
• Lectured at a genealogy conference.
  
• Spoke on a genealogy topic at a local genealogy society.
  
• Been the editor of a genealogy society newsletter.
  
• Contributed to a genealogy society publication.
  
• Served on the board or as an officer of a genealogy society.
  
• Got lost on the way to a cemetery.
  
• Talked to dead ancestors.
  
• Researched outside the state in which I live.
  
• Knocked on the door of an ancestral home and visited with the current occupants.
  
• Cold called a distant relative.
  
• Posted messages on a surname message board.
  
• Uploaded a gedcom file to the internet.
  
• Googled my name.
  
• Performed a random act of genealogical kindness.
  
• Researched a non-related family, just for the fun of it.
  
• Have been paid to do genealogical research.
  
• Earn a living (majority of income) from genealogical research.
  
• Wrote a letter (or email) to a previously unknown relative.
  
• Contributed to one of the genealogy carnivals.
  
• Responded to messages on a message board or forum.
  
• Was injured while on a genealogy excursion.
  
• Participated in a genealogy meme.
  
• Created family history gift items (calendars, cookbooks, etc.).
  
• Performed a record lookup for someone else.
  
• Went on a genealogy seminar cruise.
  
• Am convinced that a relative must have arrived here from outer space.
  
• Found a disturbing family secret.
  
• Told others about a disturbing family secret.
  
• Combined genealogy with crafts (family picture quilt, scrapbooking).
  
• Think genealogy is a passion not a hobby.
  
• Assisted finding next of kin for a deceased person (Unclaimed Persons).
  
• Taught someone else how to find their roots.
  
• Lost valuable genealogy data due to a computer crash or hard drive failure.
  
• Been overwhelmed by available genealogy technology.
  
• Know a cousin of the 4th degree or higher.
  
• Disproved a family myth through research.
  
• Got a family member to let you copy photos.
  
• Used a digital camera to “copy” photos or records.
  
• Translated a record from a foreign language.
  
• Found an immigrant ancestor’s passenger arrival record.
  
• Looked at census records on microfilm, not on the computer.
  
• Used microfiche.
  
• Visited the Family History Library in Salt Lake City.
  
• Visited more than one LDS Family History Center.
  
• Visited a church or place of worship of one of your ancestors.
  
• Taught a class in genealogy.
  
• Traced ancestors back to the 18th Century.
  
• Traced ancestors back to the 17th Century.
  
• Traced ancestors back to the 16th Century.
  
• Can name all of your great-great-grandparents.
  
• Found an ancestor’s Social Security application.
  
• Know how to determine a soundex code without the help of a computer.
  
• Used Steve Morse’s One-Step searches.
  
• Own a copy of Evidence Explained by Elizabeth Shown Mills.
  
• Helped someone find an ancestor using records you had never used for your own research.
  
• Visited the main National Archives building in Washington, DC.
  
• Visited the Library of Congress.
  
• Have an ancestor who came over on the Mayflower.
  
• Have an ancestor who fought in the Civil War.
  
• Taken a photograph of an ancestor’s tombstone.
  
• Became a member of the Association of Graveyard Rabbits.
  
• Can read a church record in Latin.
  
• Have an ancestor who changed their name.
  
• Joined a Rootsweb mailing list.
  
• Created a family website.
  
• Have more than one "genealogy" blog.
  
• Was overwhelmed by the amount of family information received from someone.
  
• Have broken through at least one brick wall.
  
• Visited the DAR Library in Washington D.C.
  
• Borrowed a microfilm from the Family History Library through a local Family History Center.
  
• Have done indexing for Family Search Indexing or another genealogy project.
  
• Visited the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
  
• Had an amazing serendipitous find of the "Psychic Roots" variety.
  
• Have an ancestor who was a Patriot in the American Revolutionary War.
  
• Have an ancestor who was a Loyalist in the American Revolutionary War.
  
• Have both Patriot & Loyalist ancestors.
  
• Have used Border Crossing records to locate an ancestor.
  
• Use maps in my genealogy research.
  
• Have a convict ancestor who was transported from the UK.
  
• Found a bigamist amongst the ancestors.
  
• Visited the National Archives in Kew.
  
• Visited St. Catherine's House in London to find family records.
  
• Found a cousin in Australia (or other foreign country).
  
• Consistently cite my sources.
  
• Visited a foreign country (i.e. one I don't live in) in search of ancestors.
  
• Can locate any document in my research files within a few minutes.
  
• Have an ancestor who was married four times (or more).
  
• Made a rubbing of an ancestors gravestone.
  
• Organized a family reunion.
  
• Published a family history book (on one of my families).
  
• Learned of the death of a fairly close relative through research.
  
• Have done the genealogy happy dance.
  
• Sustained an injury doing the genealogy happy dance.
  
• Offended a family member with my research.
  
• Reunited someone with precious family photos or artifacts.