I think it's hard to imagine all the events that led up to the present 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 textbooks, it is a miracle that we are all here. Trying to learn about all the people in my family tree has been interesting to understand how my ancestors were born, what they did, and how long they lived. I mostly learned about my mother's side of the family that lived and thrived in the South. I haven't done anything great yet, but I hope that when my grandchildren write about me they will have something great to write about and they will think that I have done something good with my life. My great grandparents on my grandmother's side were all from Texas and pretty much all of my family is in Texas. One of my great grandfathers was Dennis Williams, he worked as a roughneck, which was a person who worked on an oil rig and that was the important job that men could do in the South besides farming. He, unlike Dennis Williams, my other great grandfather, was not drafted into the war, the reasons are unknown to my family, but he was probably 18 or 19, making it unlikely that he would have been drafted in those days. Although my great-grandfather did not go to war, he was a sharecropper, a person who donated his harvest as payment for bills or other needs. The Great Depression affected my grandparents because they lived in an agricultural state. My great-grandmother was a caregiver to a disabled woman where she was, her nurse and helped her with daily needs. This job was more appropriate for the time because she didn't have as much difficulty balancing family and work and she didn't have her husband at war. Of those five children, one was my grandmother who is alive today and is very