Will your family line die off and disappear forever?

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Nope not if my brother can help it.

My branch of the family will, because I'm not having any kids, and my sister never did and is now too old. But my family as a whole, is too big to ever die out. We got to America in 1651, and we had over 5,000 documented living members as of the 1940s when the most recent genealogy volume was published, and I'd estimate that the number has tripled by now. Among my ancestors, there are a few well-knowns, including Betsy Ross, and the founder of the Mormon Church; Joseph Smith.

Charles

I don't think my family line will die off. Right now, my older half-sister (from my dad's side of the family) already has two kids of her own.

I'm the only one who could pass on my family name. I was told it often times when I was a kid. My father was the only brother from five, and his father was the only one who survived WW2, and that's just because he wasn't good enough to be taken to the front...

My sister is questionable to have kids ever, she is too old by now and diagnosed with bipolar (and is said to have no sense of responsibility by some). I have cousins who have plenty of children altogether, so the genes will undoubtedly stay in circulation for a long time.

My genes, hmm, aren't among the best, though. My maternal grandfather had some kind of mental illness (I've never met him), and my parents are a tad eccentric, to say the least. However, I'm very determined to have kids, and I admit that it is a selfish thing. I don't mind the difficulties that it will surely impose on my life (and I hope the descendants would understand the same goes to theirs). I trust the pleasure that would stem from the fulfillment of my most craved dream would be so overwhelming that it would surpass the frustration of the inevitable obstacles and difficulties. Naivity...

I hope not, but it looks like it will. I'm the only child, both my parents are Aspie and I am unlikely to find a partner whom I can connect with. I refused the only person I ever loved because I felt it would be dishonourable to burden him with my awkwardness in a relationship. And now he is lost to me for ever. My mum is menopausal, and my dad isn't interested much in women.

Eh in a sense maybe. If you mean people with my surname decended from my close family then very likely. My father is one of two living brothers. My uncle had only daughters and their familes are all kinds of messed up due to divorces remarriages and 'I want a baby to have something to love me'. My dad's sister had one son but that would be different family line than mine and he only has daughters so far too. So my brother is the only male in my close family to pass the family name on ....... and given that he's on his upteenth girl friend at the age he is - I think the family name is going to die out on this branch of the tree. My sister may have kids but again different family line. So unless I go mad and adopt some kids and slap em with my last name/maiden name (as if I could also magically get a husband with said adoptive kids) there's not much change, the family line wont continue. (mapping my family tree is one of my interests).

If you're asking if I might someday have kids I'd have to say - I don't know.

If I ever got married maybe or might adopt depends. Both ways are hard and painful and unpleasant and the unpleasant part lasts longer than nine months the second way. Of course with adopting one can screen the kids a little to try and pick one that's healthy instead of hoping you'll get one that's healthy.

(I was not the healthiest of babies and I'm not that healthy right now either so I don't expect any kid I were to birth would be superman or anything. Awesome and quirky maybe but probably also sharing in eye and other issues. Unless the dad was superman - which is much more unlikely.)

this reminds of a song by the streets

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Nope, I have two little sisters and an older brother....if it doesn't happen for me, there are backups.

My family won't really die off, but my genes likely will not be passed on. I do sort of want kids, but I know I will never be able to have a relationship, so that is sort of out of the question. Both of my brothers have children of their own though. As for my cousins on my maternal side, many of them are fairly fertile already. Out of 12 cousins (myself and brothers included), there are already 17 children born with one on the way, and the oldest of these cousins is only 36. My paternal side is a bit less fertile. His eldest brother had 3 children. Only one remains alives and none had children (or will have children as she is already in her 50s). Out of 16 cousins (with us included again) on that side, only 14 children have been born. On this side, I am the youngest at 27 (the oldest is well into his 50s and most of the others are there and near there as well) so there won't be many more, if any.

I don't want kids, but my sister probably will. Not to mention that I have more cousins than I have fingers and toes combined.

How many....just wondering?

Well, lets see here, I have 4 that I'm really close to on my mom's side, plus another 7 that I can name off the top of my head on my dad's side (although I know there's more than that). Not to mention I know I have several cousins in Germany and Utah that I've never met before. So how many? Too many to count that's for sure.

aside from me, my family line [via my aspiesh older brother and his extremely NT wife] will be going for a long time to come because all their kids are reproducing like rabbits. but if i somehow rated a wife and could have an offspring just like me, i'd love him/her to pieces.

Maybe Dr Evil is your Mr Right, he knows how to make a Mini-Me!

both of my sisters have kids, and almost all of my cousins have some. will I ever have any? who knows.