[SSJup81]

I don't know much about my family's history and I find it annoying that I never thought to ask until I was older, but by then, the older relatives (for my mother's side anyway) had all passed away.

I've been curious ever since my late teens, but kind of difficult to figure all that stuff out given US's history with "African Americans". Families were split and all that, so who knows where my roots truly lye.

On my mother's side, I think we can only go back to my great-great grandmother who was born in 1881 (which is easy to remember since I was born in 1981). On my father's side, I think, we can only go back as far as his parents. They were kind of old when they had my father (a surprise for my grandmother who thought she was in menopause as opposed to pregnant. lol My father's brother is old enough to be his father. ><) She died before I was born. My father's father, he died when I was 11 and I didn't get to see him much and couldn't ask him many questions about the family and didn't even think about it then.