I think it's hard to imagine all the events that led up to now and the people who are no longer here but who contributed to our lives. When I think of all my ancestors who have had to survive everything that has happened so far and that I have read about in school textbooks, it is a miracle that we are all here. Trying to learn about everyone in the family tree was interesting to understand how my ancestors were born, what they did, and how long they lived. I especially got to know my mother's side of the family who lived and thrived in the South. I haven't done anything big yet, but I hope that when my grandchildren have to write about me, they will have something awesome to write about and think I've done something good in my life. My great grandparents on my grandmother's side were all from Texas and almost all of my family is in Texas. One of my great grandparents was Dennis Williams. He worked as a thug, which was a person who worked on an oil rig and that was the important job that men in the South had to do, other than farming. Unlike Dennis Williams, my other great grandfather, he was not drafted for the war, the reasons are unknown to my family, but he was probably 18 or 19 years old, making it unlikely that he was enlisted at that time. Although my great-grandfather did not go to war, he was a sharecropper, a person who raised crops to pay bills or other necessities. The Great Depression affected my grandparents because they lived in agricultural country. My great grandmother was a caregiver to a disabled woman where she was her nurse and helped her with her daily needs. This job was more appropriate at the time because she didn't have as much difficulty balancing family and work or not having her husband during the war. Of these five children, one was my grandmother, who is alive today and who is very