does your family have a record of your ancestors?
sure. My mom has been working on our family tree for years. She's always updating it.
do you have a copy of your family tree in your house? I'd love to see it.
I can show it to you now, if you like. I think it goes back about 8 generations so far.
that's amazing. Do you have a large extended family?
I'Ve got 30 cousins on my mom's side and 10 cousins on my dad's side.
are you very close to your first-cousins?
the ones that are my age are close relatives. Now that I'm older, I don't spend as much time with them as I used to, so I don't know my younger cousins as well as the older ones.
I see. who's the head of your household?
it's definitely my mother. And, her mother is definitely the matriarch of the bigger family.
that's interesting. What does your grandfather think of your step-mother?
at first, she was quite critical of her, but now that they'Ve been married for a few years, she's starting to accept the fact that my father divorced my mother.