Dancharthos : Genealogos

Familia Imediata

A brief description of my immediate family....

I have one son J, born in San Diego, California; he lives in San Diego, in the same neighborhood my mother grew up; this son's mother P was born in Chicago, Illinois; she is also living [2002] in San Diego, California. Three generations ago, her ancestors emigrated to Chicago from Germany, Poland and the Ukraine; except one branch which was already in Philadelphia.

My brother B was born in Grossmont Hospital, La Mesa [San Diego], California; he is living in Seattle, Washington. Brother is married to L, they have two children, C and C.

Our mother M lives in San Diego with her husband our stepfather H.

By our mother's sister V we have two first cousins, R and S, both of whom married (S and J and R) and have one daughter each, N and K; and N has three young sons B, A and D.

By our father's sister J we have eight no, there are nine first cousins. I know a couple of them, especially Michael my identical twin cousin who writes with me in Tijuana.   They look alike they walk alike at times they even talk alike....   My father and my aunt (his sister) were not nearly identical fraternal twins, you see, until they had a falling out over their parents treating them different boy/girl double standard. That part is true (butt the identical part is monkeys flying out my). Brother and sister didn't speak for years until my Dad was dying from cancer and then it was too late. Estrangement is a pattern that troubles many families, no? And I said I wouldn't tell stories here.

By our mother's second marriage after our first father died, Brother and I gained a stepfather, a stepsister and two stepbrothers. They bring us spouses and three more nieces and a nephew; and more than a dozen stepcousins came in with the deal, too. They--the Xyz clan--are not an estranged family, and have a complicated history of land I shall not tell here because they are an entirely separate--and huge--genealogy.