This Tropette's extended family is like this. Alcoholism is InTheBlood, as well as a number of personality disorders and major depressive disorders. We're not quite a BigScrewedUpFamily, but we're almost there. Everyone is fairly high-energy and tightly wound, but we all get along startlingly well. After all, blood is ThickerThanWater.

This Troper's Catholic family is like this, dozens of members, multiple genreations, and family history (more like a bunch of complicated anecdotes but still). All that without getting into my extended family (so large that when I'm dating someone I make a point of finding out their mother's maiden name first.

This Troper Latino Catholic family is like that to. I don't have really a love life but my cousins had been in situations werte they subtly ask their dates their grandmother's name and maiden names and after have to explain a few situations

Crazy Catholic families FTW!

This Troper's family from my father's side. Gramps and Granny have had 12 children, 11 of them are married and have about 2-3 kids each, and the oldest of them now regularly bring their significant others to family gathering. Even sadder is the fact that most my nephews and nieces are really alike in appearance and interests. At this point it's easier for me to remember all the names of some of these fictional clans rather than my extended family.

This Troper's family on her mother's side are a mini version of this. My grandfather is our patriarch, and my two aunts each have 2-3 children. I'm not even getting into the craziness back east.

This Troper has two brothers, two sisters, a stepbrother and two stepsisters, 8 cousins, loads of second cousins, and we are all completely crazy-whenever the family is together, there is loads of fun.

My maternal family sometimes borders on this, it gets really noticable at Christmas. My mother literally gasped when my dad suggested we spend the holidays with his family, if you marry a DATA EXPUNGED you '''are''' one, if someone asked which side of my family I "belonged" I'd probably have to say them.

This troper's family on her father's side, through the female line, of all things. My great-grandmother is our matriarch, who had four daughters called the "O'Grady Girls" that spread the webs of clan-ness over most of the east coat. They boarder on DysfunctionJunction, but a clan we are, with our Coat of Arms displayed on our refrigerators!

This troper's best friend is a first generation immigrant from a Peruvian family that claim to trace themselves back to conquistadors on one side and Incan nobility on the other. They seem to share money amongst the entire clan and I swear they've got psychic bonds with each other. They've also unofficially adopted me, despite I the fact I already have a clan.

This troper's family makes up one of these with 2-4 unrelated families, as well as some extended relatives (Removing one aunt and uncle from both sides.).

My maternal family. Grandma and Grandpa have 7 kids and 9 grandkids, plus tag-alongs. We spend Christmas together and are close as all fuck. On top of that, there's my extended family. The surnames we have are Martin, Martin-Evans, Burke, O'Hara, Stillman, and Parrat.

This Troper likes to think that she belongs to the Arias Clan. The catch is that the ''women'' are the Arias and they are the ones ruling the clan. There's even some InTheBlood going on, as This Troper grew up apart from them, and doesn't have their last name, but she still is just like them.

This troper's family on her father's side. My grandmother had eight children and now has twelve grandkids and one great-granddaughter, possibly with others on the way, as an older cousin of mine just got married (yesterday, in fact, as of this entry). My living aunts and uncles total fourteen, and we are forced to make up Portmanteau Couple Names between the maiden names and the family names just so that we can tell each "tribe" apart in conversation. Everyone is rather eccentric and sometimes hard to deal with to some degree, since all the crazy relatives married people who are just as insane; old personal grudges and full-on underground family feuds are a fact of life, since everyone must have ''their'' way ''all the time''. My parents, thank goodness, are two of four stable members of the family, and my aunt summed it up best when she pulled my soon-to-be-wed future mother aside and said, "There are seventy-two relationships between the members of this family, and I am absolutely amazed that you have made every single one of them positive so far." (I don't know how accurate seventy-two is; however, I have no doubt that they, true to character, sat down and painstakingly figured that out once.) And yet, through all this, I am happy to report that through all these long years, a family of this size has remained extremely tight-knit, and we all love each other, each and every one of us.

This troper's family belongs to one of two large families that formed a big clan. We trace our common ancestor to my great-great-grandfather (the grandfather of my grandfather). He came to now our town around 1850, married a local woman and had two boys. Now this troper's clan consisted of roughly 100 members. Some had move out from the town. And the dynamic relationship between this two branch families some time resides in hostile teritory and some time in romance story.

This Irish troper comes from a huge close knit family. I have 6 siblings, (three brothers and three sisters). My grandparents on my mothers side had 13 children. On my fathers side my grandparents had 6. Nearly all of my aunts and uncles all have children, ''at least'' two each but usually more. It goes without say my extended family of cousins and second cousins is considerable. At my granny's funeral it was a wonderful moment for the entire clan when the priest read out her exhaustive list of children, grandchildren and great grandchildren. Also a bit of a tearjerker too.