My Family Genogram Essay

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My family consists of more than thirty people from across the map. I have four uncles and 1 aunt on my dad’s side and they each have at least one kid and even they have their own children as well. Compared to my fathers’ side, my mother’s side is a lot smaller. My mother’s family consists of my Aunt Rachel who is 47 and my Uncle Joe who is 49, and is my aunt’s younger brother. Total, I have 2 cousins on that side, but only by marriage and I don’t see them as much. My mother’s name is Melissa and she is now 50 and my father’s name is Pete and he is 53.There is also my sister and I. I am 21 and my sister Chelsea is 24. The client that I want to make an intervention plan for would be my grandmother. I chose my grandmother because she is getting …show more content…
After I conclude with that, I am then putting my parents siblings, but not their spouses or children. Lastly, I am putting in my sister and I along with our significant others. When I list my sister and I, I will also list the issues we have had with child birth defects. I am going to be using a genogram to show how my family dynamic looks like. There are some people that I did not mention in the paper that will be shown on the genogram because they did not make it to adulthood or there was a ride block in their way when they were becoming an adult. The genogram will have dates and specific events or things that I find important on …show more content…
My mom’s grandfather was straight off the boat from Ireland and her grandmother was straight off the boat from Deutschland. With that being said, I am Irish and Dutch on my mother’s side. Growing up, my mom’s grandfather worked in the coalmines up in Ashland. It was a very dangerous job, but someone had to do it. Her grandmother was a stay at home mother that watched over the children. Now these great grandparents that I’m talking about were my grandmother’s parents on my mom’s side. I have never met my great grandparents on my father’s side so I’m not exactly sure where they came from. All I know is that I am Dutch, Irish, French and German. So their ancestors would have to come somewhere from those area’s of the world. My father’s parents were similar to my mom’s parents because his mother stayed home to take care of the children and hid father worked all

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