Relatives you haven't met
By Porcospino
@Porcospino (31366)
Denmark
July 26, 2011 11:34am CST
If you had the chance to talk to one of your relatives who died before you were born who would you choose? Why? What kind of questions would you ask him or her?
I would like to talk to my maternal grandfather. He died from cancer some years before I was born so I have never met him. My mother and my grandmother have told me a lot about him and I have seen pictures of him, but I would like to meet him and chat with him. I am not sure what kind of questions I would ask him, I would just like to get to know what kind of person he was.
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@gdesjardin (1918)
• United States
1 Aug 11
I would love to talk to my maternal grandmother. She passed away when my mother was 16, so obviously I never met her. Everyone on my mother's side tells me I would have gotten along with my grandmother so well and that I act and talk just like her. Funny thing is that I am adopted, so obviously not blood related to any of my family members. I don't know what questions I would ask her, I would just like to get the chance to have known her, even it was only for a little while.
@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
25 Aug 11
I feel the same way about my grandfather. I am not sure what kind of questions that I would like to ask him, I would just like to meet him and get to know what kind of person he was. My mother always says that she thinks that I would have liked him and she often talks about him. It is pretty funny your famliy says that you talk and act like your grandmother when you are adopted, it can't be something that you have inherited so there must be other reasons why there are similaries between you.
@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
2 Aug 11
That is one thing that I hadn't thought about, but I think that you are right, at that time many things were different. I know that they became a couple in the 1940s and my mother was also born in the 1940s. I was born 30 years later and I don't know much about life in the 1940s and it could be interesting to hear something about that. Both my grandmother and my grandfather experienced the time during the second world war.
@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
26 Jul 11
I also think that it could be interesting know more about the relatives that I haven't met and the way that they grew up. I have met my paternal grandparents and my maternal grandmother but not my maternal grandfather. My mother and my grandmother have told me a lot about my grandfather, but they didn't know him when he was young, and it could be interesting to ask him about his childhood and youth.
@GemmaR (8517)
•
26 Jul 11
I have a lot of relatives that I've never met and, to be honest with you, if I've never met them by my age (20) then I don't think I ever want to now. Just because you're related to them doesn't mean that you will get on with them or have anything in common with them. Also, just because they're related to you it doesn't mean that they particularly care about you, and because of this you shouldn't spend time with them just because you share the same genes. The people who matter will always be there for you whether you're related to them or not.
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@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
27 Jul 11
If I were in your situation I think that I would be curious to meet the relatives I hadn't met yet. We might not get on with all of our relatives or they might not like us or care about us just because we are related to them, that is true, but I would still like to meet them at least once. If I didn't like them and I didn't think that we had much in common I wouldn't meet them more than once, but I think that I would have one meeting just to satisfy my curiosity.
@antwanbryant (7)
• United States
27 Jul 11
I had a grandfather I haven't met my grandmother and my mother always tell me I look just like him. And also act like hin so I thought nobody didn't look like me
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