For Future Generations... How Many Details Do You Know About Your Own Mother??
By Hate2Iron
@Hate2Iron (15724)
Canada
July 15, 2017 2:37pm CST
I have been thinking about all the Great Grandchildren that mom has... it's four at the moment and I'm wondering just how much I could add to the tree about her that they might wonder about in the future? A few items I had to ask my sister but luckily I know quite a bit.
I only wish that someone had have written down something about my own Great Grandmothers. At the moment, all they are names and dates. Actually, I was able to find a little bit about one of them from censuses! I now know at least what she did for a living.
So, how many things could you write down about your mother so that there is something to pass down when the time comes??
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@Hate2Iron (15724)
• Canada
18 Jul 17
It's amazing what you can dig up just by asking lol... just when you think that you have heard it all!!
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@Courtlynn (67089)
• United States
16 Jul 17
I know literally everything about my mom, ans vice versa. Because we are that close.
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@Hate2Iron (15724)
• Canada
18 Jul 17
That's where I have mine too... but now I have a back up of sorts on Ancestry since they are syncing them together.
@Genipher (5405)
• United States
15 Jul 17
My great grandma (who just turned 100 this year!) has never been forthcoming about her past or the events in her life. Its frustrated my grandma, who has been trying to get the family's genealogy in order, to no end.
Many of us have also wished Gr. Grandma had passed down the German language so we could have naturally learned it. But she came from a time where, when you moved to America, you gave up your home language.
Even her recipes were all memorized. Grandma managed to get some written down but it was hard because Gr. Grandma would give directions like, "A dash of this" and "a pinch of that" or "add this much until it looks like that" instead of real measurements.
Feels like we've lost a lot of our family history because of all that.
It's not just Gr. Grandma, either. My mom doesn't like talking about her biological father. My siblings and I know next to nothing about him.
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@Hate2Iron (15724)
• Canada
18 Jul 17
That indeed makes filling in the tree really hard and in my opinion it's the stories that are sooooo fascinating. My nieces are going through the same thing with their father's side of the family. There is definitely a story there, but they changed their name when they arrived and we will never know. Feel sorry for the girls!!
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@shikharava (1838)
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15 Jul 17
Well, I asked my mom about her mom this once, she replied. Then I asked about her grandma and great grandma, she replied. But when I asked about great great grandma, then she couldn't even tell her name...That's what happens when you ask
And that's all I know, seriously!
I guess, that's me after 7 generations. no one would know my name, or what I did for a living. That's for sure.
And that's all I know, seriously!
I guess, that's me after 7 generations. no one would know my name, or what I did for a living. That's for sure.1 person likes this
@Hate2Iron (15724)
• Canada
18 Jul 17
Wow... I feel for you. Luckily my mom made all of us a book for Christmas one year that contained everything she could remember growing up. I only wish that Nanny had done the same. At least I have the journal to pass along.
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