Personal Narrative: My Body Ancestry Challenges

During this exercise I feel that the most meaningful to me was the body ancestry challenge. I had made the decision to try ancestry.com and talk to my parents to fill in the some of the blanks. I had always known that my mother was adopted and the knowledge of her family was limited. While traveling for work I had made the decision to stop and see my grandfather since I was in his neighborhood and picked his brain. For the first time I he decided to open up and share with me my mother’s family history. I had found out that my mother’s biological family suffered from several medical problems like heart attacks, and obesity and her entire family had passed away at an early age. At this point is when I signed up for ancestry.com and found pictures of my grandfather who was overweight but the women he was with was not my grandmother, and I did not resemble any members of her family. But it explained why my mother and sister both suffer from being overweight. What I did inherit from my mother’s side is some of the health issues like diverticulitis.

I look like my father and his side of his family, my eyes come from my dad’s side of the family, my hair color comes from my father’s side, and my body takes after my father side as well. My father was always into fitness and I believe this where I get my fitness mindset from, and athleticism. While I inherited my mother’s skin tone, I inherited more of my dad’s genes except his nose. Most of my family on my dad’s side has a big nose I was fortunate enough not to inherit his nose fully, it is mixed between my mother and father. I inherited my mother’s thinness of hair with my father’s wavy hair however, my father is in the beginning stages of going