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

[Kazzaqld]

My son can almost make this, he is just missing the maiden name of one great-great-great-grandmother, but otherwise it's a perfect set.

I can get a perfect set, my husband is missing the lady with no maiden name, and a branch of his HUGHES family I can't get out of NZ!

John or maybe Robert HUGHES who married Susan JONES - the only information I have is that they were from England - wow that's a biiiiigg help! 

[XPhile2868]

I currently have -

All my grandparents
All my great-grandparents
10 great great grandparents
14 great great great grandparents

and some branches there are a few other people i know of, but most of these i only know either the first name of or i dont know their spouse.

[Nick Carver]

It's always great to hear how others are getting on. I am very lucky in that I have stumbled across some reasonably well documented rellies but to put my achievements into perspective, I still have 5020 10xg grandparents to trace and 10023 11xg grandparents to go! I suspect the number will not have declined appreciably by the time I shuffle off this mortal coil, but it won't stop me hunting.

[JillJ]

I have 15 of the 16 possible g.g. grandparents with very little chance of getting number 16 due to an illegitimacy, and I have 20 g.g.g. grandparents.  Still enough to find to keep me busy for a while!

Jill

[AngelFish]

I have all 16 of my G G Grandparents, due to my Grandmothers helping me draw a family tree for my school home work when I was about eleven years old.

So I guess I had a bit of a head start with my research.  I am very pleased I kept that homework! 

 

Angelfish

[marionjl]

I have 16/16  but only 27/32 - one missing guy due to illegitimacy; one unconfirmed maiden name, and (aarrrghhh) the rest are DAVIES & THOMAS in South Wales.   I'm only persisting with the missing maiden name, the others are now filed in the "forget it" drawer! 

Considering it took me more than 15 years to pin down one very elusive gt grandmother,  whose birth was unregistered, and who gave a new version of her name and date of birth each time she was asked, I'm pleased to have got this far.  Now that more records are online, filling in that branch has been much easier than in the ole days of packed lunches and what my mother used to refer to as "reading dirty books"!

Marion in Wiltshire

[Paul E]

Welcome to Rootschat, Marion!  I like the idea of a 'Forget It' drawer.  Wish they'd let me have one at work!

Paul

[Shaztoni]

I've 30 of 32, missing two wives 

[Keith Sherwood]

Hi, Marion,
Can't say that I've ever heard that expression:"Reading dirty books" as applied to family history.  What did she mean, exactly...?  Dirty, as in well-thumbed, I imagine.
Anyway, welcome, I think you're going to find time spent on the website a lot of fun...(almost better than one's nose in a dirty - sorry, I meant "good" - book).
Very best wishes,
Keith