Bridget Read
Entry 3
On my genealogy I have chosen to use the two colors blue and orange. I am using blue to represent my patrilineage in my family and the color orange is to show my matrilineage. I chose the color blue for my patrileage because blue is portrayed as a boy color in our society. The color orange was chosen to show the matrilineage in my family on both sides. On my mother’s side, there is more patrilineage descent than matrilineage because my grandmother had only three girls and the rest of them were males. All of my grandmother’s children were both colors while only some of their children were one color.
In my family we have a pretty normal base set of rules that we tend to go by. Our endogamy rules is that we can choose to marry within a social group that my parents or family approve of. They would rather have their children to marry someone with a clean back ground who is not someone who is in trouble with the law multiple times. They want someone with good morals and who is going to treat my family and their children right. My family tends to marry someone of the same ‘color’ as we are, and when someone marries someone of a different race or so called skin color my grandparents get mad. For example my mother married a man who is Mexican. My grandparents did not talk to her for a short period of time until she decided to show them that he is just like everyone else in our family. The family does not care what race or social group that you are associated with. If so they would want someone who is well educated, that is able to support their child. My family would want me to avoid many types of people that they would not want in their family descent. They want us to stay away from people who have a serious criminal back ground that would cause our family to look bad. Another category that they want us to stay away from is ‘druggies’ because they