How much of your family do you know?

[trollnystan]

I know all my aunts, uncles, and cousins on both sides of the family - in total that's 24. I know some of my cousins' kids - eight or nine of them (there are a lot of them). I know all my nieces and nephews (I have five) - although I haven't seen two of them for four-five years. I have met a few of my second-cousins (EDIT: actually that might not be an accurate term. Children of my grandfather's siblings anyway) but I only know the name of one of them off the top of my head; he dated my uncle's ex-wife for a while. (Btw, all my grandparents are deceased.)

I do have a half-brother somewhere I've never met and know nothing about. My grandmother forced my mother to give him up for adoption - Irish Catholic morals being what they are/were - after which my mother went to live with her brother in Sweden, which is where she met my father. My other three siblings I know of course.

Oh and I'm Facebook-friends with an distant family member in the States; she been to visit my Swedish grandmother and recently visited my aunt.

 

[Launcelot111]

My mom's family is probably 80-100 people, and I'd say I know about 80% of those people. 50 person Thanksgivings will do that.

 

[Jazoni89]

I know a lot on my mothers side, and I even know a few of my Nan's Brothers and Sisters, and my Nan's Mum to some extent (I've only seen her once).

When it comes to my Dad's side however, all I really know is my Dad, Grandad and Nan, one of My half brothers, and one of my cousins Marie, who has a kid, or two.

I haven't seen my biological Dad in a couple of years either, but I do know the family itself is huge, and much bigger than my Mum's side. I even have a half brother from my dad's side who I've never seen before in my life. Not to mention the infinite number of Aunties uncles, and Cousins I got on that side.

Currently now, I'm only in contact with my Two sisters (who have recently moved north, with one in Essex, and the other in Norfolk), and my Mum, and Step dad who live around ten miles away from my flat.

All the rest of my family are in Kent (where I was born and raised), which is well over a hundred miles on the other side of the country. Though, one of my uncles comes down from Kent a few times a year to see me, and my mum.

 

[BeeGeenie]

My dad has 4 siblings, they're a lot of fun and they generally live close, so I know those cousins pretty well. I know a few second cousins, and I know that Sarah Palin is my aunt, twice removed. (Don't judge me, I think she's goofy too.)
Mom came from a big family, but they're not very close, or very fun, so I don't know them well. (Going to grandpa's funeral this weekend. Let the awkward commence!)

 

[Soveru]

I apparently have a lot a distant relatives in China, a number of whom are university professors and that line(or maybe another) stretches all the way back to one of my ancestors who was a court translator in the Qing Dynasty. My uncle has a tablet to prove it

 

[cerealnmuffin]

I haven't talked to my extended family in almost two decades. I don't even know how many cousins I have, but I'm sure it is a lot. I doubt I will ever see them though as none of them know that I changed sexes 7 years ago and I know they will never accept. I don't even talk to my brother and sisters anymore as they don't accept me. Now I feel bummed -_-

 

[ThePenguinKnight]

I know very little of my family. Even when I spend time with them I don't really pay attention and just zone out when they start talking.

 

[DanielBrown]

Not much. I don't know anyone at all on my fathers side, since my mother broke all contact with them when he died. Got two or three aunts, who probably has kids of their own. One of them actually lives 50 meters away from me... 8D

On my mothers side afaik everyone is dead apart from my grandfathers cousin, who we rented a summer cabin from before. His house was just up the hill, so we met him and his wife at least once a year. His wife already had two children when they got married, who in turn got two kids each. Haven't seen them in ten years now though.

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).

Didn't the Americans do that with Italian immigrants though? Change their last name to the town them immigrated from, since they couldn't be arsed to spell their name... or did The Godfather II lie to me?!

 

[DanielBrown]

Not sure how this happened. Just edited my post. >.<

 

[Korolev]

I know OF my extended family. I can barely remember their names, though, having only met them on very few occasions. Both my father's family and my mother's family live in different countries, and one side doesn't English all that well (or not at all).

As a result, I barely know them. The few times we meet are incredibly awkward, since I have literally nothing to say to them. Thankfully I never meet them on my own - I only go with other family members. As a result, I don't have to say anything except "hello" and "goodbye".

 

[SckizoBoy]

Eh... some of them.

I know most of my first cousins (all on my mom's side, most on my old man's side, plus appropriate aunts/uncles). And a few of my second cousins and cousins-once-removed etc.

All the grandparents though are dead so... *shrug*

 

[EeveeElectro]

Family I regularly see, there's my brother, my sister-in-law and their 4 kids, my sister, her fiancé and their 2 kids.
My mum has 5 siblings but I don't see all of them. I regularly see/speak to my two aunties (very close to my younger auntie, her and my mum don't really get along but I won't have her say a bad thing against her) and my 8 cousins.

One uncle I don't see because he fell out with the family years ago but he apparently has 2 kids. One uncle I don't particularly like but have him on Facebook and will be polite when I see him. My other uncle I enjoy seeing, he has a kid now but I don't visit him often.

Grandparents don't give a crap about me. Grandma had 5 siblings, all but one have passed away and the remaining one wants nothing to do with us any more apparently.
I have second cousins that live quite far away and don't even see them.

So yes, huge family! Haven't got time to see them all.
Think I'll get in touch with my auntie now though and arrange something next week, I miss her.

 

[Starik20X6]

All of my family lives in the same beachside town, save for one Aunt who lives 2 hours down the coast in Sydney. Naturally, I the only relative I see more than that Aunt is my Mum's father. We all know each other, we're just not very close to any of them. Not missing out, based on the limited interactions I have with the rest of them.

 

[Snowbell]

I know my parents, my grandparents and my mother's sisters (aunts), I know no one more extended than that

Possibly because most of them were dead, my parents made the happy decision to have a child with a massive generational gap to them, meaning that most of my grandparents were dead before I was even born

 

[Angie7F]

I have a ridiculously small extended family and its getting smaller.
Still, I dont know any of them.
Even if they live five minutes away from my house, I had zero contact.
Hell, I dont even know my nephew's names properly.

 

[game-lover]

None. Or virtually none.

Don't really associate with my father and by extension, his side of the family. When we were little, we would appear at random family reunions but as we got older, we just stopped. I never knew who they were when we saw each other and forgot them just as easily.

My mother's side pretty much all live in Alabama while we live in Texas. And we don't really chat with each other either.

 

[DJ_DEnM]

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My father isn't an Italian immigrant, he's a Peruvian immigrant. His mother moved from Italy to Peru after her first marriage (Where two of my uncles came from) failed.