My Grandma Carol Research Paper

In honesty, and to be fully transparent; having done this assignment before, I felt that I needed to talk to a different relative and learn even more about my family history instead of just regurgitating what I already knew. This made it easy to pick the person closest to me in my life whom last time I did not choose to interview for this project; my grandma Carol. Naturally we sat down over a cup of tea, our ongoing 1,000 piece puzzle, and some music so we could chat about all the history my gran had to offer; and let me tell you that it was a lot! I started by asking her about how our family relatives came to America, and subsequently where it was that they came from. “Well it is a doozy of a story” she said to me as she began the history of my great-great-great grandparents. Starting with her grandmother on her father’s side she recounted a very long tale about how her grandmother and her grandmother’s sister traveled from Finland to Liverpool, England before they were

The oldest name being Ove Oveson, and our tree including a prominent Bishop of Upsala who was close friends with the “father of Botany” Carl Linnea (there is a flower named after my relative who was the Bishop of Upsla and my grandmother is named after Carl Linnea.) My papas side of the story, while much tamer, is still just as interesting. While his grandfather was from Finland it was never known how he came to America. Meanwhile his mother came at the age of 12 with her sister’s Ruth, Alvera, and Esther to escape Finnish poverty and live with siblings already in the states. They left their mother in Finland never to see her again. Of course, all of this information was so new to me that I didn’t quite know how to process it, and I definitely want to learn much more someday (and visit both Sweden and