How many people can boast a perfect set of named gt-gt-gt-grandparents?

[Keith Sherwood]

Yes, Paul,
It's amazing how quickly even a basic £6 worth of units disappears on that Scottish website, however good it is.
Anyway, some really impressive tallies on here already...
I got really fed up with an (ex)-friend of mine recently who I proudly showed my mother's side of the family tree to, back to the 16th C, etc.  He took a brief look at it and declared that it was "not a proper family tree".  He apparently understood that a "proper" tree could only be ALL an individual's ancestors, as in parents; grandparents; gt-grandparents, and so on, branching and doubling in numbers the further back you go.
When I told him how difficult this was, even going just 4 generations back - tracing every line - he was unimpressed...
Keith

[RJ_Paton]

  "not a proper family tree".

philistine   


anyway re original question the 4th hurdle gets me on two of the lines ...... now if there was only an easy way to find a farmer in Ireland  with the name I want
(just a pity it appears to be quite common and in at least 7 different counties)

[lovin lass]

i see you have jones in your tree
me 2
now thats even trickier than farmer
havnt got past my grandfather with that one yet

and now im a jones god help my kids when they re trace my family   lots of laughs

[MarieC]

I have all 16 on my Dad's side.  Partly due to Scottish clannishness, which meant that most of the Camerons were there when my cousins and I started looking, and partly our own work. 

Only 12 on Mum's side.  Two other cousins have done a great job with half of those, which include a convict and the daughter of a convict, and a mysterious sea captain who apparently sailed off and disappeared - we don't have a lot about him.  The gaps are in the other half which I am researching, and having trouble with female lines.  I have not been able to determine which Eleanor Cook born in Northumberland one of my gggrandmothers is, and have not found parents for another gggrandmother.  Also missing some maiden names in that ggggrandmother area, we have the people but not who they were before they married.

Soldiering on in hope!

Marie

[Lesanne]

      After my first reply here, I thought about trying
                 the Turner's of Berkshire, just one more time.
           L.D.S. site fed in Tom and 
                                        Flew past 3x Gt and on to 8x Gt.
               Just got to verify it all now.
                                              Lesanne. 

[Nick Carver]

On my father's side, I have just one maiden name to discover - it's proving remarkably elusive. On the maternal side, I have all the christian names, but am missing five maiden names. In the next generation, I have 16 on the paternal side but only three on the maternal side.

I look at it as a challenge. If my children were replying to this post, they could claim a full set. In my family, this particular generation was pretty much all born and married before 1837 and I imagine that the reason this particular generation was chosen is that this is the same for many of the other posters. If certificates are available, life is so much easier.

[claudia99]

Without boasting, I can say I have 25 of a possible 32 gt-gt-gt grandparents (max I can find will be 30 due to one illegitimate gt-gt grandmother!).
My main acievement is that I have 7 out of as possible 8 gt-gt-gt-gt grandparents on my mother's maternal grandfather's side and in total I have 16 out of 64 gt-gt-gt-gt grandparents.
I am also only 35 so I have lots of time when I retire later in life - hopefully not too "later" - to get back further!
My children could boast that they have a complete set on my side of gt-gt-gt grandparents but struggling on hubbies side as they are from Ukraine!
Claudia

[margaret1]

I'm not there yet -

but  I do have all 16  gg grandparents, 10 ggg grandparents (paternal) and 2 gggg grandparents.


margaret

[NigelG]

I've been very, very lucky and have all 32 Gx3 Grandparents and 60 of my Gx4 Grandparents. Only ones to "spoil" the set are the parents of my missing Biddles - John & Maria/Dinah nee McDermott in Birkenhead.

Still soldiering on!