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What parts of your family history do you know little to nothing about?


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  • 2 years later...

Most of it. As my family and relatives don't care much about that sort of history so nobody really knows


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The farther back my relatives date back, the less I know. I know only a few tidbits about my great grandparents and beyond. I recently received some heirloom handkerchiefs from France that were sent to my great, great (not sure how many ‘greats’) grandmother by her son, who died of pneumonia in France in WW1. There’s a lot of back story there I’d like to know but what I just mentioned is the extent of it. I know about a relative from all the way back to the Revolutionary War because one of my late great aunts did exhaustive family research, but otherwise I’d know nothing. I know lots of little things, like a girl who married at the age of 13 (back when that wasn’t such a big deal), and my great great grandmother who built bombers in WW2, and my great great grandpa whose involvement in the war, and subsequent (legal) name change, remains shrouded in mystery to this day. But so many fascinating details have been lost. I wish I knew more.

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I know very little. I know that my mom's side of family immigrated from England to the USA in the early 20th century (or late 19th). That was a mistake. Since then my mom's side of the family history is mostly back in the mid-south region of the country (Oklahoma and Kansas), although some family is in California. Further back then England IDK. My dad's side is a mixture of the mid-South and the midwest. IDK much more than that. I don't know any further back.

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I'd like to know more from both of my parent's sides.

I have a good idea of my mom's but she doesn't talk about hers as much when I bring it up since the falling out with my grandma, which is understandable.

On my dad's, my grandpa was an orphan and passed away when my dad was still a kid, so there's that. I don't know much on my grandma's side there either. There's a claim about being related to President Ulysses S Grant, but I think that's a partial cover up for the one African American descendant we have that we know nothing about.

I've done a 23&Me test but you have to assign which side of the family tree is your mother and father's. I've gotten test for them, but my dad won't take it, and my mom did, but wouldn't reveal the results. Also, I'm supposed to be 6.5% Cherokee? Genetics aren't passed down perfectly, but that's not insignificant, yet it doesn't appear on my report.

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Anything after great grandparents gets kinda fuzzy. Despite never getting to meet them I do know quite a bit about my great grandparents just from what my own parents and grandparents have said. Also have gotten my hands on some stuff my great grandparents had owned or wrote. Like a map my great grandfather made showing where he went while in Europe during WW1.


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I hardly know anything from my mother's side. About the only story I even remember being told was that my grandfather once traded his first generation Camaro for a Ford Pinto.

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I know barely anything about my family. Nobody talked, but given how fucked up everyone is it's probably nothing good. mlp-rshock.png.ece15bbb3f2412add9ffb62ee1571d87.png


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Don't know all that much about my mum's side of the family, and it really bothers me. And she's the only person I could ask and I cut her off so now I will never know, even though I wish I could ask more about my grandparents and great grandparents. :scoota-sad: I want to know what that side of the family was like during WW2, I suspect a lot of the family bullshit also had to do with the aftermaths of WW2 because it was a preeeeetty major site of, well, the Holocaust... my mum seemed disturbingly fixated on WW2 history and visiting Auschwitz as a kid traumatised her, she was too disturbed to come with us as an adult. She's usually very shut off, even my dad doesn't know much about her childhood. She never discusses it, but it sounds she was the family scapegoat while her mentally disabled sister was more favoured. (I don't know if the 'mentally disabled' part is actually official or if my mum is a bit of a jerk, I may have to ask my sister's mum. I do know my aunt from that side and her husband are, uh, a bit eccentric. Hmmm)

Gonna put stuff from what I DO know in a spoiler tag as it may be upsetting to people. TW for mentions of suicide, abuse, torture, brutality, etc lol. I will not be graphic of course.

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I know a bit more about my dad's side from my sister's mum, and it's messed up. My paternal grandma was an abused orphan and I've had one uncle die by suicide after a motorbike accident where a child he had on his bike got killed because of him, another uncle beaten to death by cops apparently. And an uncle that died as a baby before he was baptised so they had to bury him under a tree because the Orthodox church wouldn't bury him in their graveyards. I think I have an aunt(?) who was psychiatrically abused and dumped into an asylum by the rest of his sick family for ""being crazy"", and my dad got her out. Good on him.

My sister's mum's family included partisans, my sister's granddad was tortured and psychiatrically abused for his leftist organising and views by the junta and who fought in my country's civil war and tried to e.g. smuggle food for children during a great famine. I won't go into detail but it's noooot pretty. But it also made me feel proud to be considered a part of that side of the family, too, he seriously cared about people. Poor man got pretty severe PTSD and was suicidal from the war and torture and there were things he saw he took to his grave. I wish I could have met him, he died before I was born. His wife, my sister's grandma, had a dad who was away for my sister's grandma a lot of her childhood as he lived in South Africa and had a business. His business partner got involved in some South African mafia there and long story short they lost everything and the mafia threatened with death any lawyer who tries to claim what belonged to this great granddad, so nobody dared make any claims.

tl;dr my family is fucking crazy :0

 

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I know my family was in the War of the Roses in the 1400s But it doesn't say much about what they did.

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