How often do you think about your ancestors?

Not much to be honest although I love hearing the stories when my aunt tells them. The last time she was here my kids and I soaked it all up. And I’m thankful for their hard work that became our family today.

Maybe I should but I just don’t. I had a partner who was very okay and understanding regarding death. Here’s the thing, at some point, unless you do something really good or really bad, no one will remember you or your loved ones. You may be a name in a lineage but that’s it. And it’s okay.

Same here. Documenting the only 80 or so (I hope) years I'll ever have in the billions and billions of years of the universe's existence.

That's enough for me

per the op question - sometimes I think about my grandmother, but both my paternal grandparents were dead before I was born and my maternal grandparents died when I was quite young. I have hazy memories of my maternal grandmother.

I'm not sure my memories will mean much even to my grandchildren (should I have any). I'm not sure they will be able to connect even further back than that - even if I could give them those stories.

We do have lots of pix of DH's grandparents and great-grandparents. It's lovely to have them, but no real connection other than to be thankful that through them there is DH.

Not even a little. I've never had paternal family and am an only child with no children of my own. I don't have a relationship with my mother, by choice.

My spouse is adopted. Her parents and sibling are deceased. She has an adult child from her first marriage that (still) lives in our house...

Family just isn't something I think about; past or present.

I love to scrapbook but it's more about playing with pretty paper than documenting stories. My scrapbooks will end up in the garbage and I'm perfectly okay with that.

Often! I have relatives who did genealogy research that was only of passing interest to me when I was younger, but like you I have developed more interest as I get older. My parents are getting old, my great aunts and uncles are almost all gone, my grandparents and some great grandparents were around when I was younger but have all passed away now. I love history and stories and love old photos. It doesn't matter to me that my brother and I will both die without leaving descendants, my cousins have been very fruitful and I've been able to connect with distant cousins too who are interested in piecing together more stories.

I don't know that I spend a great deal of time thinking about my ancestors, but I do think of them. I had all four of my grandparents until I was 19, and even my youngest sibling remembers them all, so when we get together it's not uncommon for the discussion to pass over them; this weekend it was a particular trait my maternal grandfather had that my Mum seems to have picked up, and laughing over a habit of my paternal grandmother when we saw a particular photo in a slideshow put together for my sister's birthday. I love hearing stories about my great grandparents as well, as Dad remembers one set of his grandparents reasonably well and both Mum and Dad recall family stories of their other grandparents. I think it makes a big difference that I'm in the fourth generation of our family to live in the house I grew up in, so we were very used to hearing stories as it was part of the fabric of our home.

I don't know as many stories about the ancestors in earlier generations, but I really wish I did, as there are enough clues to suggest there are some very interesting people in my family tree.

Ryann I come from a large family and have 2 kids, plus 2 grands. I still expect my scrapbooks to end up in a dumpster and I'm ok with it. I do it for me.

Actually yes - we grew up in a small town & my family was full of characters & eccentrics so there were lots of stories. My mother’s mother died when I was 3 and she was determined that my younger sister and I would “know” her. (other relatives have actually asked us about her because their families didn’t talk about her or tell stories) My sister and I still laugh about all of it. We are also lucky to garden in a space where our mother, grandmother & great-grandmother did as well-it’s a different kind of generational connection, but a lovely feeling as their flowers still bloom and we add our own selections.

This is an interesting question. I am not really into ancestry activities, but I do find as a book and memoir lover that as I age, I am more curious about the lives and stories of those that lived before me in my family of origin. More about what experiences they had at times in history than who I am in the context of who they were - if that makes sense.

My uncle is a little obsessed with it and my brother is pretty focused on it - but he is more about living in the past and wanting to connect with people, which is probably why I have some what stayed away from it because I don't want to go down that rabbit hole.

So, we did give both of my in laws Storyworth for gifts this past year and it will be interesting to see what comes from their stories. I want to have my mom also do it, but she lives a no-internet/no-mobile phone life so I will need to figure out how to send her a physical book of questions. She always has interesting stories when I ask.

Truly just about every day, but genealogy is another hobby of mine.