For several years fellow blogger Amy Johnson Crow has been running a genealogy challenge that has seen increased popularity in the last couple years. Over on WikiTree, they have decided to pick up this challenge and issue a weekly open-ended prompt on the message boards. Each prompt is designed for members to discuss and respond with an ancestor or story that fits with that week’s prompt. In addition to answering over on WikiTree's G2G forum, I'll also be answering here in a more complete form.
I wanted to have a little fun with this week’s challenge topic of “Large Family” and put the spotlight on myself for this one.
I come from a blended family where both my parents had children from previous marriages before they were together. My father had four children and my mother had one, and then had four children together.
After their separation, they each married people that had children, giving me a total of seven new stepsiblings.
For those keeping track at home, that would be 16 siblings. The oldest out of the group was born in 1948 and the youngest was born in 1987. While I view this as one large family, it is incredibly segmented with many of my siblings not knowing anything about one another’s existence. It is an odd situation, but one I find quite amusing.
- Patricia
I wanted to have a little fun with this week’s challenge topic of “Large Family” and put the spotlight on myself for this one.
I come from a blended family where both my parents had children from previous marriages before they were together. My father had four children and my mother had one, and then had four children together.
After their separation, they each married people that had children, giving me a total of seven new stepsiblings.
For those keeping track at home, that would be 16 siblings. The oldest out of the group was born in 1948 and the youngest was born in 1987. While I view this as one large family, it is incredibly segmented with many of my siblings not knowing anything about one another’s existence. It is an odd situation, but one I find quite amusing.
- Patricia
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