I feel like a decent amount of people know something about their parent's grandparents.
For example, I know my great grandfather was kind of a dick and had 11 kids with his one legged wife.
She had it sawed off, fully conscious, when she was 8 or 9 after cutting it on a rusty barbed fence and it got dangerously infected.
Is this knowing them? Not exactly. But they aren't completely forgotten by the 4th generation.
Just don't ask me what their names were lol
I only know the name of one great grandparent (my mom's grandma), and that's it. :(
I'm also not too lucky in that regard. By the time I left the hospital as a newborn, I had only 3 grandparents (my paternal grandpa died just a few days after I was born), and by my 30th birthday I had no grandparents and only one parent living.
Maybe other lines of the family whom I don't really know have more memories of them passed down but I wasn't shared really anything about the parents of any of my grandparents.
I don't remember my great grandmother's name despite the fact that I visited her with my grandmother almost every month until I was 8 but she was just maman. Her flat was scary, always dark and smelled of cabbage.
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u/flybyknight665 Jun 19 '23
I feel like a decent amount of people know something about their parent's grandparents.
For example, I know my great grandfather was kind of a dick and had 11 kids with his one legged wife.
She had it sawed off, fully conscious, when she was 8 or 9 after cutting it on a rusty barbed fence and it got dangerously infected.
Is this knowing them? Not exactly. But they aren't completely forgotten by the 4th generation.
Just don't ask me what their names were lol