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I've met my maternal grandmother (ba ngoai) and maternal step-grandfather (ong ngoai). I met them as a teenager, so I remember them both. I was really scared of my ba ngoai.

I met and remember all of them.

Paternal grandfather passed away when I was eight, but he used to tell awesome stories about growing up on a homestead in South Dakota. He and my grandma always wore matching velour track suits. Grandpa in blue or burgundy, grandma in pink or green.

Maternal grandfather passed away when I was ten. He was a gruff old farmer, and not really a story teller type. He and his buddies always played cards, and instead of betting money they bet candy bars. My cousins and I loved raiding Grandpa's candy drawer, haha.

Paternal Grandmother passed away more recently, in 2007. She was an amazing woman and I still really miss her. She had the most perfect penmanship I have ever seen, and was always beyond generous with us. When she passed she left me the china she and my grandfather received as a wedding gift when they married in 1936. I can't wait to move to a place where I can display it properly.

Maternal grandmother is still alive, and doing amazingly well at 89! She is quite a feisty lady, even more now than when I was a child! DH and I went to visit in August, and he asked her if she still remembered any Polish (she came here as a young girl). She said not really, except for the swear words, and then spent a long time saying them and explaining what it was in English, haha.

Met and remember all 4 grandparents, plus a great-grandmother that I don't remember.

I know all four of my grandparents and grew up in the same town as all of them. They're all still living, too, for which I'm very grateful.

I have one living grandma. She's 93. My other grandma died when I was 18.
Never met my grandfathers!

3 - my maternal grandfather died when I was 9, I remember him well enough though. My maternal grandmother died when I was 22. My paternal grandmother died around then, also. I never met my paternal grandfather, though -- he left my grandma, my dad and his brother when they were young and moved to California and remarried.

I met my mom's parents and my dad's parents. My dad's dad is the only one still alive. I also met two great grandmothers and one great grandfather. One of my great grandmothers is still alive. She is only 80.

I met two and a step-grandparent. Both my mom's dad and my dad's mom died well before I was born. I was closest to my maternal grandmother.

I hope my LO remembers all three of her remaining grandparents and knows them for a while. This is a sad subject to us because DH's father died when LO was 2.5 weeks old and before she got to meet him (he was sick). She has gotten to meet DH's paternal grandparents though.

All 4 are still alive and I'm 33. I'm very lucky. I'm so terrified of the day when I lose any of them.

I met 9 but I only remember 6.

Maternal grandmother- died when I was in college
Maternal grandfather- died when I was an adult
Paternal grandmother-still alive
Paternal grandfather (bio)- died when I was a baby, don't remember him
Paternal grandfather(step)- died when I was an adult
Paternal grandmother(step)-died when I was in elementary school or early middle school
Paternal great-grandma-died when I was a baby, don't remember her, though my Mom says she adored me
Paternal great grandma 2- died when I was in middle school
Paternal great-grandma 3 (step)- died when I was in middle school, but I don't really have any memories of her since she didn't live close so we never saw her, though I have quilts and baby blankets that she had made me when I was a baby.

I was so blessed to have so many grandparents and memories of them!

I met all four but only remember 2. My paternal grandfather died when I was 2, my maternal grandfather died when I was 4. My paternal grandmother died when I was 26 (she was 94!) and my maternal grandmother is still alive and doing well at 91.

only met 1, and my paternal grandmother, passed when i was 12. the others had passed before i came along. i was the youngest grandchild on both sides of the family, all of them were born before 1900. heard many of their stories of them all though.

All of them, and one great grandma.

Two of them lived close to us, my grandpa passed away when I was in hs and my grandma passed away when lo was about 6 months. Lo was her favorite person in the whole wide world

My other grandparents lived farther away but visited once a year and moved closer when they got older. My grandma is still living.

I remember going to my great grandmas 100th birthday party. I thought she was terrifying because she was old and I couldn't understand a thing she said and my mom wanted me to stand next to her for a picture and I was like no way. My lo's middle name is named for her.

Three, my mom's dad passed away when she was 18 so I never got to meet him. Everyone else I met and knew very well.

3 out of 4 and I remember all of them. Even though two dies before I was 5. My moms mom was alive until I was a freshman in college. I have lots of good memories of her even though she lived a few states away. My parents are older (65&76 - I'm 25) so I knew I wouldn't have grandparents for much of my life. I'm so glad DD will get to have that experience.

I met and remember all four of mine. My maternal grandfather passed away in 2007. We were super close. My other three grandparents are still alive. I can't stand the thought of them not being in my life.

None so far but I wil meet my one and only surviving grandparent next month when I go to Vietnam! Will probably the last time any of my family sees her before she passes.

My parents were married at 18 and had my brother and I super young, sooo I know all my grandparents ( that often got passed off as my parents) and all of my great grandparents too!

3/4, and my DD will be the same. Neither of us will have met our paternal grandfathers. I did however know my mom's mom's parents, until I was a teen!