Yes, it does. When my father died (a couple of weeks before my 23rd birthday), I was still a self-absorbed young adult who thought the Iron Curtain was going to last forever, so the Lithuanian ancestry bit was just something weird and the Lithuanian that my Dad spoke to some of the old-timers around town was just "old people's language" to me.
I didn't ask my Dad much about his parents. I have no idea whether my grandfather was stern or lenient, whether my grandmother was a good cook, and so forth. I always meant to do it. Then suddenly he was gone.
Both my grandparents died of infections that don't normally kill people in their 40s in the 21st century. (My grandmother died of pneumonia in 1934 and my grandfather died of nephritis and myocarditis in 1937.) I know little about their extended families, so I have no idea whether things like heart disease, cancer and Alzheimer's run through their genes.
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Date: 2017-08-31 08:45 pm (UTC)From:I didn't ask my Dad much about his parents. I have no idea whether my grandfather was stern or lenient, whether my grandmother was a good cook, and so forth. I always meant to do it. Then suddenly he was gone.
Both my grandparents died of infections that don't normally kill people in their 40s in the 21st century. (My grandmother died of pneumonia in 1934 and my grandfather died of nephritis and myocarditis in 1937.) I know little about their extended families, so I have no idea whether things like heart disease, cancer and Alzheimer's run through their genes.