I love re-learning about your own family when it is actually within your capacity.

Great Grandma Kathleen had two children.
Went to high school but they aren't sure if she finished since she married at 17.
She was a stay at home mom, but then took up a job at the supermarket during the war so she should get a first crack at things that were rationed.
She was married to the same man till she died at age 54.

Great Grandma Aileen, had only one child.
Went to second grade and then stopped because she was being bullied for something that her brother did. 

She had many jobs during her years. She started at 17 when she came to the US from Newfoundland and was a nanny and housekeeper. She worked in NYC factories during my grandma's childhood and then became a bookkeeper later on for Chase Bank. When she was about 60 she was again a housekeeper in Catholic church rectories. She was married twice, and her first husband dying when he was 42 and the second one when she was in her eighties, she was widowed for 30 years.