Saturday Night Genealogy Fun - The Ancestors GeneaMeme

From Randy over at Genea-Musings: 

Hello, genea-world!  It's Saturday Night (in the USA!) (Or in Liz's case, it's Sunday afternoon!)  -- time for some worldwide Genealogy Fun!
Your mission, 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.

Thank you to Jill for the SNGF idea!  Jill is collecting Ancestors MeGeneaMeme entries too.

The rules, and the Meme list, is given below in my response.

Here's mine:

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

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'm missing my Drake 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 (Alas I was unable to meet my paternal grandfather, Lusion Keman
       Tapley, who died in 1935.)
7.  Met one or more of my great-grandparents
8.  Named a child after an ancestor
9.  Bear an ancestor's given name/s (I do, but not by design.)

10.  Have an ancestor from Great Britain or Ireland (Tapley is an English name, though I have never   
         found the missing link.)
11.  Have an ancestor from Asia
12.  Have an ancestor from Continental Europe  (Great-Great Grandfather George Schwalls was from
          Germany.
13.  Have an ancestor from Africa
14.  Have an ancestor who was an agricultural labourer (Almost everyone in my family in every line.)
15.  Have an ancestor who had large land holdings.  (The Pages come to mind...)
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
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 beginnining with Z
23.  Have an ancestor born on 25th December
24.  Have an ancestor born on New Year's Day (my great-great-grandfather, George Schwalls)
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

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
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 (On this blog)
36.  Have published a family history online or in print
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