my father had a hole in his right ear ,he was born with it also both of my brothers have holes in their ear drums one the right the other the left but i was the first to go full deaf , i have an uncle who is vary old that is full deaf yes my fathers brother. i have a son 14 when he was born he had hearing problems , he had 3 different opperations on both his hears the last OR he had 3 things done in 1 opperation thank god it help him , he is full hearing. my youngest son he's 7 he was born hard of hearing , he didn't talk one word until he was 4 yrs old , and now he's almost ready for hearing aids, the funny thing is he knows and helps me even learn sign asl , moore then anyone else in my family .. funny how that works out we didn't find out about his hearing problems until after i lost my hearing completely. wierd isn,t it but his a life saver to say the least . so yes there's pleanty of family history with my hearing loss