Personally, I would like to add to our family tree in the future when I'm financially and emotionally ready. Overall, my family is very big, and it will continue to grow. Some had migrated to the US and speeded all over the country and 4 of them are still currently living in Jamaica. The 8 other children my dad has have different moms and were raised in Jamaica. My dad himself has 12 kids and I'm the oldest out of the 4 children from my mom's side. Regarding my dad's side of the family… his father had 14 kids by the age 21 and was sadly shot and killed in Jamaica, but still to this day my dad continuously finds other people that may be connected to him and his other siblings just because nobody really knew how many kids he had while he was alive. On both sides of the family, we don't say we have “ half” siblings because family is family especially if we all grew up together raised by the same people. My mom is the oldest out of 8 daughters my grandparents had back in Haiti and only 2 of my aunts have the same parents but the rest share the same dad. My grandmother and my mom and I are the first born. Within my mother's side of the family there's a lot of females throughout the tree. Geographic relocation is very common throughout both sides of the family since some are still back at home and some are located in New York, New Hampshire, Maryland and Florida. Things have changed due to family drama and respect but for my fathers extended family they are close for the most part but its hard to come together cause of the distance between everybody. When we used to be close, we would have our extended family come over and enjoy meals with each other. My mother keeps our intimate family close, and everybody else in the extended part of the family does their own thing when it comes to holidays in this present day.

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