How much of your family do you know?

[DJ_DEnM]

Well Escapists, at this very moment I am at a party with a whole bunch of family members. Family members whom I don't know. My extended family is huge; My grandmother has around 7 Brothers/Sisters, who have their own kids while my mother has 7-8 Brothers/Sisters, leading to SO MANY cousins. I have family around everywhere in the world (Except Japan, on an unrelated note) and this is just from my mother's side. From my father's side most of my family lives in Italy. According to my father, there's a town with our last name (Though this is dubious, I have no idea about this being true or not). With this said, how much of your extended family do you know?

 

[aba1]

I know my aunts and uncles on both sides but not my grandparents siblings. I am sorta like you except we are all in Canada. My dad has 6 on his side and my mother has 8 on hers so I have a good few cousins to say the least.

 

[MasterMasamune]

I hardly know any of my extended family. I can only remember my father's parents, two cousins, and two aunts (not sure which sides). As far as I know, the majority of my extended family does live in the country, specifically in the state I used to live in. Yet, I still can't name any of them.

 

[Shoggoth2588]

Nope. I don't know where my family came from and I didn't know Dad had a half-brother until I was in my late teens. I feel like my Dad's side of the family is big but I don't ever remember meeting his Dad OR my mom's Dad. I don't know much of anything about my family so I guess its no wonder why I don't care about having kids of my own!

Other than that, I know some cousins and, my Dad's full-blood brothers. I know Mom HAD a brother but I haven't seen his daughter in years. I know my Mom's Mom has a sister but haven't seen her in years (or her kid(s?)). As I grew up it seemed like my extended family extended farther and farther away. Oh well, can't miss what you never knew.

 

[Chemical Alia]

I've got family living in various states across the country, and I know some parts of my extended family a lot better than others. Though on my mom's side, my grandmother had 12 brothers and sisters, which lead to a ton of cousins (many of them twins and triplets, who had more twins and triplets). So that's a huge family, and I don't recognize the majority of those people when we go to family reunions.

On my dad's side of the family it gets a little worse, since his family was Jehova's Witnesses when he grew up, and one of his sisters still is. She shunned the rest of the family, so I never met her or her kids, who are my first cousins :C I also didn't even know who my grandfather was until like, last year.

 

[sextus the crazy]

I've got something like 100 Uncles and Aunts on my dad's side because he's from a big farming family.

 

[Kae]

My family is ridiculously big, I really doubt I've met half of them but I'm sure that I've met more than a hundred of them, can't say much about them as I can only remember around 50 of them and most of them I've only met for a day, so yeah.

 

[Kolby Jack]

I know my grandparents (minus my dad's dad, he died a couple of years before I was born), and I knew two of my great-grandparents very well and another great-grandfather vaguely (he died when I was about 6 years old). I know all of my uncles and aunts and their spouses if they have any. I know all of my first cousins, but few cousins farther removed than that. I know 4 great aunts, one great-great aunt and two great uncles, one through marriage to my great aunt. Aside from that I also know several of my dad's high school and college friends he still hangs out with to the point where they almost feel like uncles to me.

Funny thing is, my mom's side of the family ALL live in Texas and usually pretty near each other, while my dad's side of the family ALL live in Massachusetts and also in the same area. So my family and I did a lot of rotating holiday visits when I was young. I like the climate of Massachusetts a lot more, but the food is better in Texas.

 

[Vicarious Reality]

King of norway
Grandma's dad
Grandmothers
Grandfathers
4½ aunts
2 uncles
14½ cousins
Dad
Mom
Me?

We live in Norrbotten, Uppsala and Malmö

 

[Eleuthera]

My extended family is quite small, including people married into the family we're at 25 people still living. I see the semi-regularly (a few times a year)

 

[Lizardon]

I have a very large family. My grandmother on my mum's side had 8 siblings and my great-grandmother had 11 (I think, I'm honestly not sure). My dad's side isn't as bad, but still rather large.

So whenever I go to a family gathering there a people there who I just don't know or remember. I'm terrible with names and faces so I'm not going to remember you if I've only seen you 3 times in my life. Unfortunately they all remember me, so it gets awkward.

As for who I do know,
My grandparents and great-grandparents
Aunts and uncles
First cousins

 

[BarbaricGoose]

Shouldn't this thread be about sexism, hating on "Brown shooters" or what games you hate that everyone else likes? Your thread is original and you should feel bad.

I know my whole family. Or, you know, those who were still alive when I was about 10 or so. I'm not close with all of them, though I don't dislike any of them. I'm close to my much older brother and sister, and my nephews.

 

[General Twinkletoes]

Hardly at all. I have 1 uncle who lives anywhere near me, and that's it. I don't even know him that well either, because we don't often do anything together, he goes out with my parents.
I know my best friends extended family better than my own, not that I'm really complaining.

Almost all of my cousins and uncles save one are bogans, who I'd rather not spend time with. One's a racist, one's someone who raised their kids to be drunk, and those 24/7 phone facebook guys who will post a status at 3 AM how there's nothing to do, so he's going to mcdonalds. I think he sleeps about 2 1/2 hours a day and just spends the rest on facebook, and the last uncle is someone who I've barely ever talked to.

Then on my mum's side, that's not great either. Only one aunt and her children are alive, but she's annoying and has 3 mummy's boy children that are barely independent at the age of 18. My mums brother was a conspiracy theorist, and right at the limit where you wouldn't quite call him crazy, but he wasn't far off.

My parents are so different to their family, it's bizarre. My entire dads side is a typical small town bogans, while my dad writes computer programs. My mums family was just flat out weird mostly, but she's perfectly normal. I am pretty close to my great aunt though.
I also have met my grandparents, but not much, and I really don't know them all that well.

 

[Flamezdudes]

Yeah, I know loads of my family on both sides. Since my mothers side has loads of Irish relatives we always go over to Ireland every now and again to see my hundreds of cousins and great aunts and uncles and other family members, everyone in my family is really close. I'm quite close to my fathers family however I don't know as many great aunts etc or as many cousins as my mothers side. There is still loads of them though.

I mean hell, my dad was one of nine siblings so imagine that spread out with each of their own children. And my mum's mother was one of eleven children so thats even more children from each of them and more cousins.

 

[Girl With One Eye]

Well half of my extended family is here, and the other half is in China. However, I rarely see any of my family and to be honest I try to avoid them as much as possible.

 

[Eclipse Dragon]

My grandma (on my mother's side) was the oldest of nine children, I don't know most of my extended family, my mother moved to the other side of the country when she was young, so we don't get to see them often.

I know even less of my family on my dad's side, my grandparents never spoke about their parents much;
I think it's kind of a dark memory for them.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Considering that my mum has four brothers and one younger sister (my mum is the oldest) I actually know them quite well (since they do come over to visit during the holidays) including my aunts in laws. I get along with them quite well. Likewise this includes around over ten cousins which again I know them.
She also has some extended relative which I sometime had to be reminded who they are (rarely visit) but I haven't even mention the ones that aren't in the UK (mum told me that excluding China and Hong Kong, I also got some relative living in Canada and in the US).

My dad side of the family however is competely foreign to me since my dad families are from the US (my dad used to lived in America). I only know one of dad family when we went to the US for a holiday.

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

In terms of family I actually converse with on a semi-regular basis: Mum, Dad, Sister about covers it.

But I've met almost every single person from my extended family at least twice each, at my grandparents funerals.

 

[Shinsei-J]

I've met most of them but I couldn't care less when I met them so I know only my aunts, uncles, cousins and grandparents.
I actively try to avoid my dads side of the family because they try to force their believes onto me, so I don't know them past the 1st stage. My moms side however, I've met 3rd cousins, can't remember their names though.

 

[clayschuldt]

Well, I know all my Aunts and Uncles fairly well...all 25 of them (12 Children of father's side, 13 on mother's side). I know good portion of my first cousins. It's a little confusing past first cousin. The Schuldt family is scattered all over Minnesota, Wisconsin and oddly enough Wyoming.