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Old 05-08-11, 09:05
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Default Take one 4xg-Grandparent week 1 - 5 - 11 Aug 2011

Welcome to Take One 4xG-Grandparent!

This is our new weekly challenge to see how much information you can find out about each of your 4xg-grandparents. Because there are so many brick walls at this stage, we are expecting that you will have quite a few missing 4xg-grandparents, and that the ones you do post up will have quite a few gaps to fill in. For this challenge, we ask that you only post a thread if you know the first name of your ancestor. You are allowed to post up to two threads each per week, e.g. your own ancestor and your OH's as well.


This week, we are focussing on your father's father's father's father's father's father.

If you want to take part, just start a new thread on this board and put your 4x-great-grandfather's name in the Title. Copy the following form and fill in the answers that you already have, then over the course of the next week you try to fill in the blanks and everyone else helps you. 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.

Can you fill in all of the following information about that person:

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
Addresses where they lived (including county if in UK) - and please list which censuses you have or haven't found him/her on (if s/he lived in census times!).
Date, place and cause of death
Date and place of burial.
Details of will / administration of their estate - if applicable
Memorial inscription - if any


Adoptive or step-4x-great-grandparents welcome!

Also, something new for TO4G - if you have posted a thread in TO3G for this ancestor's son or daughter, could you please include a link to that thread. If you search for the tag TO3G1, you should find it. Please let me know of any missing / wrong tags and I will correct them.
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Old 05-08-11, 10:07
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B*gger can't do mine or OH's on this. Not a cat in hells chance on OH's and only go as far as 3xgreat on mine. No idea of his parents names. Oh well. *waits for next week*
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Old 05-08-11, 10:32
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B*gger can't do mine or OH's on this. Not a cat in hells chance on OH's and only go as far as 3xgreat on mine. No idea of his parents names. Oh well. *waits for next week*
Will have to join you with the waiting Marg, only at 2x with OH`s and no definate baptism for my 3x GG
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Old 05-08-11, 10:40
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B*gger can't do mine or OH's on this. Not a cat in hells chance on OH's and only go as far as 3xgreat on mine. No idea of his parents names. Oh well. *waits for next week*
Sobs, I don't know who my 3x g grandfather was so not a cat in .ells chance of doing this one (( off to see what I have on OH's side.
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Old 05-08-11, 10:44
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Snap with all of you , hubby have only got back as far as his Dad with the french laws abd mine only back to 3X as well ;;dam ;;
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Old 05-08-11, 11:26
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I can add mine but will have to wait until I get home from work as for some reason, I havnt added certain info on my online tree that I did add to my offline tree
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Old 05-08-11, 11:48
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Ohhhh how exciting, mind you this is one of the very few I can contribute. Thanks Kate
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Old 06-08-11, 11:33
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I don't have any on mine or OH's for this one.

Although I think I will take a look OH's today I had another look at mine and it's a no hoper I think.
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Old 07-08-11, 21:12
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I only know as far back as 2g on my direct paternal line - it's what comes of them all being called Jones!
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