re: Do you know your great-grandmothers maiden names?

Yes because I care about my family and where I came from.



But that’s just me.

Yes

I know maternal grandmothers parents names. Know paternal grandmothers parents names. Not much else about any of them ( a little). I stayed at my mawmaws house countless times as a kid and teen, and would ask about the old days when she was a kid . She was born in 1900) I mainly asked about life back then, not so much about family members.

Her life skills eclipsed anything I ever did…..canning food, sewing her own clothes, cooking "from scratch." She was a widow for forty years, so it was just us two for many many weekends. She lived to be 95. My maternal grandpa , , her husband, died when I was 2.

The other set of grandparents lived in another state, so I only saw them around Christmas and maybe one or twice during the year, so was not very close to them at all…though I adored my paw.

I only met one great grandparent before she died, I have a vague memory of an old lady sitting in a chair, I was a little kid, and she died before I saw her again. They lived in another state as well.

Today’s kids are lucky to have both parents , together with full siblings. Now it is more likely to include step parents, step siblings, step grandparents, half siblings and so on.

Around the time my mother was pregnant with me, I had a great-aunt who did an exhaustive family tree for that side of my family. It was from her work that my mother chose my name. I still have a copy of the family tree she made. So, at least on my mother’s side I know the maiden names of my great grandmothers. One was a Walker, the other Hopper.

As for my fathers side…


I’ve never really associated with those people.

One yes. But that was a fluke. I only met one of them on my dads side. We called her by her nickname. When she was like 85 she was mugged trying to take her purse. She had a broke arm and two black eyes but kept her purse. By all counts an awesome lady

Yes, and I have the names of all (male and female) great-great grandparents as well. English, Irish (both flavors), German, Scots-Irish, Spanish, Swedish and Norwegian.

Oldest record we have is a birth in the Parish Register from Waibstadt, Baden, from 1606. That's 12 years before the start of the Thirty Year's War:



Although that's about two dozen generations, we're still broke.

Baker, Pratt, Sloan, and Smith.

Yes on my maternal side, Sagrera and Hebert.

I don’t know any of my great grandmothers 1st names nor what their grand kids called them.

Never knew them.

Lapriori
Barton
Miner
Not sure on the other one