Below you will see the genogram of my family created using GenoPro 2016 software (No author, 2016).
Despite the fact that currently my family is quite large, it is almost impossible to trace the genealogical tree too far. I have managed to find information about my great-grandparents from my mother’s side. From the side of my father, the situation is much worse, as only scraps of information could have been found about his parents. My Granddad o my father’s side grew up in an orphanage and then immigrated to the USA from England. Here he met my Grandmother and they got married. Grandma Karen was not much of a source of information, even if she would be alive. She had Alzheimer’s disease, and Dad had her taken to a treatment facility with “the best possible care” (Newport, 2013). I wonder, how he would behave were we, his children to send him to a retirement home or a treatment facility.
Nonetheless, I have two more siblings both younger than me and at an age when they do the exact opposite of what you ask them. General, they do anything they can to get to you. What makes it even worse, is that the younger brother, tries to copy the behavior of his not much older sister. Whenever, the two of them are around together the or sure the house will be turned upside down. My parents did want more kids, now they have another chance at upbringing them better than they did me. My Mum did not really care about how I grew ad where I were. My father was too preoccupied with work and not dealing much attention to neither Mum, nor me. Thus, the relationships we have is rather strained. On the contrary, now they spend a lot of time together and look after the two little devils. I could not be happier for them.
I also have two cousins. They are the children of Viktor La Bosque, my mother’s brother and my cool uncle. In reality, I used to spend more time at their house, even though our houses are located at a significant distance away from each other. He is my cool uncle, who married rather young. His two children, my cousins are still younger than me, but they are still older than my brother and sister. Besides, we get along nicely.
My Grandparents on my mother’s side are both dead. Grandpa Sergio had heart problems. However, the medical insurance did its part and he managed to live all the way up to 1997. His relationship with my Grandmother Vale were not those of pure love. The two simply hated each other. They got married in the first place because their parents, my Great-grandparents on my mother’s side thought them to be a good couple and suitable for each other. Living in a rather strict ad dependent environment, my parents had nothing left to do but to obey.
As mentioned, my Great-grandparents on my mother’s side were full of themselves, looked up to tradition, and bossed people around. At least this is how mother remembers them. She does not really, because she was four when her father’s parents died in a car crash and nine when her mother’s dad ad mum died one right after the other (Ross, 1986). Most likely Grandma Vale could not take the loss; or rather, her heart could not take it (Ross, 1986). In 1982, she died from a stroke. Something that no one could have predicted as not ne cardiologist found anything wrong with her on the eve of the tragedy.
Reference
No author. (2016). Family Genogram. GenoPro. Website. Retrieved from http://www.genopro.com/
Newport, M. (2013). Alzheimer's disease : what if there was a cure? : the story of ketones. Laguna Beach, C.A. London: Basic Health Deep distributor.
Ross, E. (1986). Death : the final stage of growth. New York: Simon & Schuster.
