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View Poll Results: Which great-grandparent should we all focus on this week?
Father's father's father 5 17.24%
Father's father's mother 1 3.45%
Father's mother's father 7 24.14%
Father's mother's mother 3 10.34%
Mother's father's father 4 13.79%
Mother's father's mother 2 6.90%
Mother's mother's father 5 17.24%
Mother's mother's mother 2 6.90%
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Old 12-11-09, 07:19
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Default New game - Take One Great-Grandparent

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.
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Old 12-11-09, 07:25
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I've voted for my favourite ancestor.
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Old 12-11-09, 09:45
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tagging this for later so I can decide and vote.
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Old 12-11-09, 10:04
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I've voted for the one I know least about.
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Old 12-11-09, 10:21
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I voted for the most trickiest one.
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Old 12-11-09, 10:34
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I've voted for my favourite ancestor.
*frets as to who that might be*

I've selected with a bit of paper, blindfold and pin
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Old 12-11-09, 11:42
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I shall choose one of my dad's GPs
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Old 12-11-09, 11:50
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Voted for my mum's favourite grandparent. Can't fill all the boxes, but do have plenty of stories.
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Old 12-11-09, 13:33
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I'm lucky n that I know a bit about my g grandparents, so it was hard to choose, but I have done.
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Old 12-11-09, 15:01
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Got to be a Foster ....
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