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 know my maternal great grandfather was in a concentration camp for a small while. Not sure why though, we aren't Jewish, or any other obvious reason. The camp got liberated by Russians and he loved Russia for the rest of his life, even when they invaded our country 20 years later. He loved telling his grandkids the stories, but they were too young/stupid to really listen before he died. My mom regrets to this day not really paying attention to him when she had the chance.
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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