[speaker001:] does your family have a record of your ancestors?
[speaker002:] sure. My mom has been working on our family tree for years. She 's always updating it.
[speaker001:] do you have a copy of your family tree in your house? I 'd love to see it.
[speaker002:] I can show it to you now, if you like. I think it goes back about 8 generations so far.
[speaker001:] that 's amazing. Do you have a large extended family?
[speaker002:] I 'Ve got 30 cousins on my mom 's side and 10 cousins on my dad 's side.
[speaker001:] are you very close to your first-cousins?
[speaker002:] the ones that are my age are close relatives. Now that I 'm older, I don 't spend as much time with them as I used to, so I don 't know my younger cousins as well as the older ones.
[speaker001:] I see. who 's the head of your household?
[speaker002:] it 's definitely my mother. And, her mother is definitely the matriarch of the bigger family.
[speaker001:] that 's interesting. What does your grandfather think of your step-mother?
[speaker002:] at first, she was quite critical of her, but now that they 'Ve been married for a few years, she 's starting to accept the fact that my father divorced my mother.
[speaker001:] that 's pretty much how you feel about your step-mother. Like grandmother, like grandson.