New game - Take One Great-Grandparent

[kiterunner]

Our new research game, starting this weekend.


The idea is that each week everyone who wants to take part focusses on one great-grandparent - with a weekly poll to decide which one, first poll being on this very thread. The g-gs that have already had their go will be left out of subsequent polls.

This is how it's going to work, when we have the poll results to see which great-grandparent we're starting with.

Can you fill in all of the information:

Name - "official" name and what they were known as
Date and place of birth
Names of parents
Date and place of baptism - if applicable
Details of each of his or her marriages - if any
Occupation(s) - if any
Military service - if any
Addresses where they lived
Date, place and cause of death
Date and place of burial / cremation.
Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable
Memorial inscription - if any

Adoptive or step-great-grandparents welcome! If your great-grandparent is still alive then sit that week out or use your partner's great-grandparent instead.

The idea is to see what blanks need filling in, and get help with filling them. If you're lucky enough to have all the information already, then you can still post it up if you want, so that search engines can pick it up.

[Guinevere]

I've voted for my favourite ancestor.

[Rosie Knees]

tagging this for later so I can decide and vote.

[Uncle John]

I've voted for the one I know least about.

[Jennifer Eccles]

I voted for the most trickiest one.

[Merry]

I've voted for my favourite ancestor.

*frets as to who that might be* :o

I've selected with a bit of paper, blindfold and pin :D

[Rosie Knees]

I shall choose one of my dad's GPs

[Phoenix]

Voted for my mum's favourite grandparent. Can't fill all the boxes, but do have plenty of stories.

[Lynn the Forest Fan]

I'm lucky n that I know a bit about my g grandparents, so it was hard to choose, but I have done. :)

[Rosie Knees]

Got to be a Foster .... :D

[Georgette]

I've chosen too :D

[Joan of Archives]

Omg if you can find OH's mother's father's father I will be thrilled lol!! :d

[Phoenix]

I've just realised *gulp* when my father's father's father was born. Blow the military service. Suffice it to say that his uncle was in the militia;)

[Katarzyna]

Trickiest one for me too!

[Muggins in Sussex]

I only know who two of them were, so have voted for one of them :d

[Phoenix]

Out of curiosity, why are the men more popular than the women? Back in the 1700s some women get very shadowy, but my great grandmothers all have clear personalities, even if none were in the army or made wills.

[borobabs]

Oh well have voted but think I have done it wrong ;;Its my G.Gradfather William Baker

[Rosie Knees]

can sks enlighten me; what happens when the thread closes tomorrow?

Sorry to sound thick lol

[maggie_4_7]

I know a lot but is this just confined to England and Wales Family History?

[peppie]

No Idea what I'm letting myself in for but I voted :d

[kiterunner]

The idea is that starting tomorrow, everybody who wants to take part copies out the form from post #1 of and fills in all the info they already have about whichever great-grandparent has come top in the poll (at the moment, father's mother's father is in the lead).

Then you post up a new thread on the Research board with a prefix of [TOGG] (don't worry if you don't know how to do this because you will see the option as soon as you click on the New Thread button; just select [TOGG] from the prefix dropdown menu. If you forget then we can add it for you anyway).

Put your great-grandparent's name in the thread title - or if you don't know their name put whatever you like, lol. Fill in the info that you have and then we can all get busy trying to fill in the blanks for ourselves and for each other.

[JayG]

I know a lot but is this just confined to England and Wales Family History?

Hope not Maggie, the one I voted for was born in America.

[marquette]

Am I too late ? i don't know what the time is, over there in England !

[Muggins in Sussex]

Hi, Marquette -:) - The game starts tomorrow, so you are not too late :)

It's 6.34 on Friday morning here and the game starts on Saturday

[kiterunner]

It starts this morning, actually, as soon as I've posted up the instructions! And it covers all the world, definitely not just England and Wales. I for one am certainly hoping for help with other countries.

[Mary from Italy]

Oh dear, I don't think I'd better participate in this one. I've got loads of information about the person I thought was my father's mother's father (who's listed as her father on her birth cert), but some recent information suggests that his wife was playing away...

[Phoenix]

Have to say this game is very good for highlighting what I thought I knew BUT HAVEN'T WRITTEN DOWN:o

[Margaret in Burton]

Well I think it's a brilliant game. Got mine sorted already thanks to Jackie.

[Durham Lady]

Fiddlestick! am I too late, hadn't made my mind up so didn't get around to voting, was sure I had more time!!!!!
Also can someone tell me what TOGG means? I noticed it on the main threads page too.

[Phoenix]

Take One G Grandparent - and I hope you're not too late, as I'm off home to dig out old certs!

[Tilly Mint]

Great idea.....and to start with my g grandfather is my biggest wall !!

[kiterunner]

Daphne, you're not too late to take part - just read the sticky thread at the top of this board and all should become clear.

[HarrysMum]

Can we do our OH's as well????

[Margaret in Burton]

Can we do our OH's as well????

I was going to ask that. :D

[kiterunner]

Yes, you can.

[Margaret in Burton]

Yes, you can.

Ooh thanks. I'll do OH's James Cox then in a bit

[Rosie Knees]

Thanks for this game.

It has brought to light the fact that I hadn't located my bloke's death. Just found him on BMD and it's so sad, he died the quarter before my dad was born so Ada, dad's mum, would have been pregnant with dad when HER dad died.

Have ordered the cert now.

Wonder if he left a will?

Margaret, my OH's mum was a COX. Farndon, Notts being the ancestral village.

[Margaret in Burton]

All OH's Cox's were Ashby

[HarrysMum]

Thanks Kite...........

[kiterunner]

Due to the unexpectedly large number of participants, we've moved the threads onto a new board of their own:

http://genealogistsforum.co.uk/Forum/forumdisplay.php?f=21