Special stay-on-topic thread number 1, inspired by Mothers’ Day.
We all have them. What is yours like? Big or small, concentrated in one place or spread out over several continents? Do you keep in touch with your first cousins? Second cousins? Third cousins? Does your family keep track of its history? If so, how far back in time?
I have 5 first cousins rthat live within 5 minutes of me. Two of them live right down the street.
My sister is insane.
(GAPA, you rock so hard for making a stay on topic thread)
My family is small-ish, I suppose. I live with five people, but have only one cousin, and she’s adopted. My familiy lives all over the US and we don’t have big reunions very often. We’re pretty good at keeping track of ourselves. My dad knows a lot about our ancestors, who came to America in the very early 1600’s.
I love my family! Yes, it sounds like a lie. But a lie it is not. I don’t fight with my parents; I argue with them, but I don’t really get in screaming matches or anything. I do with my younger older sister (the younger of my 2 older sisters, I mean) but she’s still cool. My family is kind of like a club. Like the Museblog, except we communicate through physical and verbal means, not virtual. We have random inside jokes and stuff like that. No one who is not part of my family can really understand it (except some really close friends who are pretty much family).
My extended family, I communicate with, but not as much. My dad’s side is bigger, but they all live in Australia. Still, we visit them every few years and sometimes they visit us. I like them all a lot.
On my moms side, mostly I only see my uncle and his sons, and occasionally my mom’s sister. I havent seen my mom’s mom in years and years. My uncle is cool. He’s a total hippie.
most of my relatives live in michigan… although my uncle bob lives in california…
OMG- u are sooooooooooo lucky. My closest cousins live in Utah.
My next closest cousins live in Holland, and one of them, (hes 28, his brother is 31) is getting married in september. My other 4 cousins live in New Zeland
Kriket- you actually have an uncle named Bob/
How sweet is that
I am really distantly related to my best friend.
My moms grandmas cousin was married to John Audobon, the natualist
my ancestors were John and Pricilla Alden, these famous poeple in the “New Worl” a.k.a. they came over on the Mayflower, and he became a Govener
Skipper nancy- your uncle is Hippie? how sweet is that, like peace out and chill kinda stuff, like Uncle Rico from Napolian Dynamite type dude?
That is so sweet!
-Peace out
My moms parents live with me, my dads mom died of breast cancer, and we have NO contact with my dad’s dad *cofs the wotd jerk*, Mervin Glue, (google his name, he has a bunch of entries)
my family is REALLY SMALL. including cousins, grandparents, etc, there’s only 13 of us. and we all live on the west coast, just in different states. my cousins are pretty cool though.
copper bigfoot, you’re lucky you guys live so near bye. anybody have non-english speaking relatives?
My relatives live in different states than I do. We don’t really keep in contact with anyone more distantly related than first cousins.
My ancestors on my dad’s side immigrated from Romania or somewhere like that. Half of my mother’s side came from Italy, and the others have been here since the 1600s or 1700s. I had to research my ancestors for a history project this year, but I’ve kind of forgotten since then.
My family…it seems like all the closeness has disappeared since we moved two years ago. I mean, I still love my family, but I don’t really see them a lot anymore. The time I spend in the same room as either of my parents is probably less than an hour a day.
My dad is always SO tense when he gets back from work, and all he wants to do is shout at my brother, because my brother has not yet learned how to stay out of Dad’s way. I do, but sometimes I feel starved for any bit of attention of love I can get.
I think I’ve told this story, but I will tell it again for because I like it.
The reason my dad is Australian is this: his very many times great grandfather lived in Britian when they used Australia as a place to send all their convicts. This man’s name was Hardy Harry. Hardy Harry was apparently a poor man, because he was sent to Australia on a convict ship for theivery. Was did he thieve? I shall tell you what the theived:
24 umbrellas.
From the Lord Mayor of London.
I’m not making this up.
So there you have it. It you ever meet me, hide your umbrellas. I might not be able to restrain my self from snatching them. It’s in my blood.
Anyway, it just occurred to me that that wasn’t entirely on topic, so I’ll say something else.
(8)Cool! My moms ancestors also came over on the Mayflower, though I don’t know if any of them were famous. I think a later ancestor did live next door to Samuel Adams.
Yeah, none of my relatives live near me. I don’t really have any cousins my age, either, except a boy cousin who lives in Australia who’s a year and half older than me. But he and his older sister are both pretty cool.
This thread is such a coincidence…..the other day, I came upon a family tree. My great-grandmother (on my dad’s side of the family) spent half of her life putting it together – it has the names, birthdates, birthplace, death dates, and death place of our relatives/ancestors since the 1500’s!!
Most of my relatives (on my dad’s mom’s mom’s side of the family) are from Germany or Yugoslavia.
I’m pretty sure that my dad’s dad’s dad’s side of the family is 100% Polish, and that my mom’s side of the family is mostly Dutch, but I’m not sure.
I have an uncle named Bob, too!
But actually, usually people call him Robert.
But it still kind of counts
I have an uncle named bob. But were usually don’t call him that.
I have a fairly small family and most of my relatives live in the state or near it, so we all get together on holidays and other special occasions. As for history, the only noteable ancestor I know of is a Marie H. in Germany who gave the Grimm brothers some of their fairy tales.
mine has a foster brother who’s probably the most immature twit in the world. I have one mom and one dad, thank god, and no sisters or brothers. most of my family is anti computor tv stuff, which can get really anoying in the summer. for instance, right now, my dad thinks I’m getting dressed. I haven’t acctually said I am, so I’m not lying. But if thats what it takes to blog, I’ll do it
life at my house can be pretty bor;ing, as is this post. sry
my grandparents live in a city called payson about an hour away.
uncle in idaho
granma (grammy is what I call her) lives in ohio. I like ohio think I’ll move there
my mom is from detroit so practically everyone on her side lives there. So like every month we either waste a couple thousand dollars flying up ther, or we waste some of our sanity driving uo there. EVERY MONTH. It is quite nice though, when they actually come down to visit us.
we have the coolest families
did i mention that my best friend is REALLY distantly related to me? We fiured it out when I was in Ireland, and my mom traced our family tree
me=HUMONGO family.
divorced, steps, lots of siblings, cousins, racially mixed family…. I’m white, but my Stepmom’s Chinese…
I dislike Ohio. RED STATE. RED STATE…. AAAAAAAAA!!!
*implodes*
wait, hwo did you make mg leave
(19) I’ve been to Payson once. It was really pretty.
I have no realtives in the state that I live in. The nearest are in Oregon.
My family is awfully small. I have a sister, two parents, two paternal grandparents, a paternal uncle, and his partner, who is either my maritally-related aunt/uncle or just an uncle. That’s my paternal family-my mother’s family is estranged from us. I think they’re vaguely Mexican-Polish-American.
My mother is a professional chef, my father is a microbiologist, my grandfather is a retired biologist (and friend of Frans de Waal and Arvid Carlsson {who hates me for spilling pudding on his head. Not my fault, the one waitress didn’t show up in time for the formal dinner and I had to sub and not go to an important jazz concert, which everyone said was really good afterwards. One of the French page-waiters tripped me and the bowl of pud flew over to land on him. He began to orate in Norwegian. It was totally mortifying}, among other people). My grandmother is a retired housewife, and my uncle runs a bridge parlour. His partner owns a sushi restaurant. Six Japanese head-chef people work there, and they refer to me as “Queenie-chan” occasionally. Anyway, the point here is that
13-The real question to ask here is why the Lord Mayor of London possessed 24 umbrellas. Did he collect them? Was Harry Harvey framed or involved in a secret plot to use the umbrellas for some nefarious and villainous purpose?
On my Dad’s side, we have his parents, really, that is all we have on his side. And on my Mom’s side, I have Uncles, Aunts, Grandparents, a great-grandfather, AND her countless cousins. (Phewwww.) Now I need some (icecream), but I already had some today.
well
im in a family of 6
mom & dad
sister-shes 18. going to college in the fall. about 5’10”. sports=waterpolo and swimming
brother- hes 16.5. going to be a junior. some of my friends think hes hot. greatttt. about 6’3”. sports= volleyball. water polo ex swimmer and ex soccer player
then theres me. female- 14.5. going to be a freshmen in the fall. blonde. about 5’11”ish. sports=swimming and water polo. ex softball player
sister- 11.9. going to be in 7th grade. about uh. 5’3”. sports=track. swimming. gymnastics(for fun). ex soccer player.
pets=
dog. grace. 8 years.some says shes emo. she has a huge bald spot on her back annually. small. looks like toto
guinea pig x2. bonzo. 9 months??named after john bonham of led zeppelin(may he rest in peace).
aruba. 1.3 years???named after a nickname me and my friend had for a dude at youth group. i forgot the workers name, so he had a shirt that said “aruba”on it. so i called him aruba. i couldnt think of another name. so i thought ok, aruba it is.
fish. name=fish. we never really bothered naming it, cuz we thought it would like, die after a week. little did we know that fish would last about eight years. he/shes not dead yet
rat. chrysanthemum. my little sisters rat. shes cute.yeahhh
my family is disgustingly boring………
22.- I totally agree with you. *asplode*
my dad- yellish but soft n cuddly too.
my mom- soft and cuddly but yellish too.
my brother- yuddly-oft.
very diverse…
both sets of my great grandparents came from the USSR area.
in my house, im an only child.
but i have 3 “cousins” in MA who are really my brothers and sister. my “aunt and uncle” are my birth parents and my birthdad’s sister is the mom who adopted me. family adoptions are the best.
other than that, i have loads and loads and loads and loads of relatives in India. gigundo family.
i have a sister and a twin.
23- i posted like 1000000000000000000000000000 randon bougus comments
32- why are you adopted in the same family? Why not stay with your real parents?
32- that’s confusing! how do you keep track of all your relatives in India? and (post 33) PSPofP poses a good question. Why nost stay with your real parents?
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I like that theory very much. It is a common joke in my family, because that is the questions we all asked when we heard the story. Who needs 24 umbrellas? I think it would be fun to write a novel about the whole thing.
( if you wanted to be boring, you could say that it was most likely they simply belonged to the Lord Mayor of London because he was in the umbrella trade, and that Hardy Harry stole an expenisive looking package of the back of wagon without know what it was or to whom it belonged, but who wants to be boring?)
This is fun. Does anyone else have any theories on why someone would own 24 unbrellas and why someone else whould want to steal them?
I will post my own as soon as I can, but I really really really need to do my algebra homework now.
My brother is an extremely good artist for his age. I am more like an introverted writer. What with, “A picture is worth a thousand words,” I’m feeling pretty superfluous here.
my sister is a really good artist too. but she wont admit it. she hates when all the art teachers “look how beautiful” her work.
no one else in my family is a good artist… well, maybe me… atleast i’m better than my mom.. (she draws blobby things and call them people)
My family is close knit. My cousin, my second cousin and I have a bunch of inside jokes. Its really fun to be close to your family.
My family consists of me, my brother, my mother, my father, 2 grandmothers, 2 grandfathers, 10 aunts and uncles, 1 uncle’s girlfriend, 8 cousins. No one in our family steals umbrellas.
Maybe the Lord Mayor needed all the extra umbrellas because he kept losing them. I do that. In a rainy place like London, 24 umbrellas wouldn’t last me a week.
That’s a good one too, I guess. I wouldn’t know. I don’t have much use for umbrellas, except as sun-parasals (sp?).
It could have been a superstition. Like “stealing 24 umbrellas counteracts the bad luck obtained by tripping over a black cat, stumbling under a ladder and running into a mirror, thus breaking it*
Or it could have been that he was actually in league with the Lord Mayor of London, and the whole theft was actually a passing of information, and the fact that it was 24 umbrellas was some type of code. Like, “if the package you steal is 24 umbrellas, meet me at the Tower at 3 o’clock. If it is 32 dyed alpaca fur cardigans, throw the body in the river and escape to the country”. Only Hardy Harry never got to meet the Lord Mayor at the tower at 3 o clock because he was arrested and shipped off the other side of the planet.
This could be a fun idea for a thread. Theories on Random Events. it could be a mixture betweent “Theories of Life, Death, the Unviverse and Everything” and “RRR” threads.
I envy all you big-family people. Your reunions must be exciting, what with all the umbrella thieves walking around. Ms. Jeffica, I have to say I don’t understand exactly how your family is interrelated, but it sounds nice.
I have traced my family tree back about 400 years. On My mom’s side, we are English..and not the gentry, either. Namely, Pirates. We still have some of the pirated stuff. I wonder if those Koreans would like thier treasure chest back? We arrived in America slightly before the mayflower, tired of being pirates, and eventually, one of them there piratey offspring married Benjamin Franklin’s blood related neice. She is my great (x alot) grandmother. So I’m related to Good ol Ben.
My dad’s side is French, supposedly related to Emperor Preggers Man, Napoleon. Thats What my Aunt said. I’m not sure I believe her. However, we did have a saint somewhere. My other Aunt, who lives in California, has a holy relic (fingerbone), but she lent it to her hairdresser, and I have no idea what happened to it. I think it is funny that I have a Catholic Saint in my family, Because I’m protestant. Honh honh honh. (That was supposed to be French laughter).
I won’t even go into the small percentage of African~American ancestry. Or my stepmother’s Chinese side. Or my stepfather’s Scottish / Canadian thingie. I have a headache now.
My grandpa is 100% German, my grandma (same side) is a European mutt, and my grands on the other side are German/ Netherland mixes. I’m distantly related to a famous chocolate company! We didnt’ know about it until we saw the store in New York. When I got home I did some research and yup, definitely a connection. That was a LOT of research. And-here’s the blow!- they wouldn’t give us a discount on the chocolate. Blargon.
On my father’s side I am Swedish, Scottish and an English mix. On my mother’s side I am Welsh, Irish, English and Cherokee indian. I don’t know of any famous relations/ancestors but when I find any, I’ll talk about them here.
Half brit, quarter irish, bits scottish, french/canadian, i’m sure there’s more but i’ve forgotten it.
Cherokee Indian ~ cool!
I’m not shure what I am. I think my ancestors immigrated from Europe, but I’m not shure.
my dads side of the family is in jordan, and my moms lives all over the states. i dont think we have any proper family records.
ooooops. My Stepdad’s Irish, not Scottish.
Was it something I said? Why did everyone LEAVE?
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My at-my-house family consists of my mom, our animals, and me. My half-sister is 11 years older thanme and lives 45 minutes away. My mom’s boyfriend visits quite often, sometimes with his son, but does not live with us. I have one grandparent left, my granmother who lives in England. Almost all of my aunts, uncles, and cousins live within an hour. Only four people who were in my nuclear family, as well as aunts, uncles, cousins, and grandparents, have died: my father, and 3/4 grandparents.
Oh! As for famous family members, I’m directly related to Sir Francis Drake. As in, he’s like my great, great, great, etc. uncle.
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As for my family, I’m exactly one half Japanese, although my mom’s (Japanese) side debate that all of us are REALLY all Japanese, since there’s rumors about those darned Portugese sailors that scurried around the ports enticing bored Japanese women. Yes. An interesting fact is that my great grandmother was the first person of Japanese descent to be born in the contiguous United States. -Yay Hana-
The other half is split between varied European countries: Ireland, England, Alsace-Lorraine. Though the last one there is something of a inbetween country. We’re from the French side I think. Or was it the German…? -dead-
So needless to say, I’m one of those kids who looks sort of Asian, but has European features, without really being European either.
(42) Hold, DW/Queen J. Who were you talking to? I don’t think Jeffica’s ever posted on this thread.
ive got a great great uncle named edward edwards….
lemme see… my relatives all live in California, exept one family in Washington state, Oregon, and Arizona. no one else in wyoming.
i have eight cousins or something like that… hard to keep track of everyone. sigh. than i have an annoying little gnat of a sister…. she’s the crazy one. believe it or not, she makes everyone on here look perfectly sane and down to earth. meh.