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

Yes

I misread the question, but know those last names. Not going to list them since I already told their first names.

My mom's paternal grandmother, Kate, used to fix fresh peaches for my brothers and I when we visited her. Sometimes we got to turn the cylinder when she made homemade peach ice cream. She was born just outside of Kosciusko on a farm in Possum Neck, MS. She was one quarter Cherokee, and lived to be 101. I drove from Dallas to her 100 birthday celebration, in Crossett, AR, when I was in my 20's. A local TV station interviewed her that day. She lost one son in France and another in The Philippines during WWII. My grandfather didn't have to go because he had three older brothers who all went. There were pictures and medals on the wall in her living room. My Navy Nephew visited Uncle Paul's grave in The Philippines, in the 2010's, during the same deployment that he got a Honey Badger tattoo at Subic Bay Never knew her husband. She outlived all but two of her children, including my grandfather.

My dad's maternal grandmother, Minnie, lived with my grandmother when I knew them. We left our Christmas toys every Christmas day and drove to that grandmother, Clara's house. She outlived three husbands. The first one owned a huge farm. My dad had 13 brothers and sisters, and he was the youngest boy. One of his half brothers was 20 years older than him. They would all be there at Christmas. I remember Minnie had to take lots of naps.

I'm 65, and I think my generation all knew most of our aunts, uncles, and 1st cousins, even with all of my dad's brothers & sisters. The trips I made to Crossett to see Great Grandmother Kate and to Bastrop to see Grandmother Clara, and Great Grandmother Minnie were regular, at least once a year trips, in the 60's and 70's, that my parents made. I know I didn't do the same to see my grandparents with that regularity after I was grown, but they all died by the time I'd graduated college.

Yes. I was also fortunate to know and interact with two of them. I'm also a family tree nerd so I know a lot of the names going back several generations. I can remember that stuff but not where I last placed that wrench I had in my hands a few minutes ago.

Vaughn, next question.

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what if they were all dead long before you were born?

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You never asked about, or your parents never talked about, their grandparents?

Yup and one of them changed their name from Schmidt to smith because of the shame from nazi germany…

When I first replied - i didn’t list their names but i realized that it’s basically my heritage:
Lonergan, Chauvin, Thacker, Moses

You related to the guy who knelt on George Floyd’s neck? He was a chauvin

Rockefeller and Vanderbilt

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Rockefeller and Vanderbilt

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Mines were Carnegie and Westinghouse.