Fascinating histories and maybe we are distantly related, my Jewish side was in the Bay City/Saginaw/Flint/Detroit area. When most of Slovakia was controlled by Hungary, people would say they were from Hungary, but when it changed hands after WWI people started writing Czechoslovakia on their documents. I have that same situation on my ancestors' documents. I have been in Slovakia a couple years ago and they have a lot of documents there from the Hungarian days, also posted on familysearch.org. I was able to find my relatives who also vaguely mentioned "the old country" but never said where exactly. Same with "Russia", I was able to trace their origin to Lithuania with some old Michigan marriage licenses I found on familysearch.org.
Marissa -- This piece, was the first of your writing that I have ever actually read. And you are (of course) a good writer. :-) I now feel like I know you, and understand how you have been formed. (By the family that you were born into, like some say they are formed by the configuration of those certain planets that they are born into.)
Your piece reminded me of, and gave me further insight into, the extended family I myself was born into. (My father was one of six brothers and sisters, and after they each had their own spouses and children, we would sometimes meet in one family's house for dinner and do skits or charades with each other. Or play pool in the basement, and make harmless crank calls on the telephone.)
Thank you for sharing, and I'm glad if you are going to tell your origin story only once, I'm glad that it was this one that I happened to read first. You will probably be getting numerous comments of praise. :-)
Was waiting to read until I had the proper time! Thank you for sharing, Auntie Mitzi ;)
Thank you for sharing
YOUR STORY !
Love it !!
Your destiny was set from an early age ❤️
Fascinating histories and maybe we are distantly related, my Jewish side was in the Bay City/Saginaw/Flint/Detroit area. When most of Slovakia was controlled by Hungary, people would say they were from Hungary, but when it changed hands after WWI people started writing Czechoslovakia on their documents. I have that same situation on my ancestors' documents. I have been in Slovakia a couple years ago and they have a lot of documents there from the Hungarian days, also posted on familysearch.org. I was able to find my relatives who also vaguely mentioned "the old country" but never said where exactly. Same with "Russia", I was able to trace their origin to Lithuania with some old Michigan marriage licenses I found on familysearch.org.
You told such a lovely, interesting story. I loved it all-wish you had written more.
Tanti Auguri.
Marissa -- This piece, was the first of your writing that I have ever actually read. And you are (of course) a good writer. :-) I now feel like I know you, and understand how you have been formed. (By the family that you were born into, like some say they are formed by the configuration of those certain planets that they are born into.)
Your piece reminded me of, and gave me further insight into, the extended family I myself was born into. (My father was one of six brothers and sisters, and after they each had their own spouses and children, we would sometimes meet in one family's house for dinner and do skits or charades with each other. Or play pool in the basement, and make harmless crank calls on the telephone.)
Thank you for sharing, and I'm glad if you are going to tell your origin story only once, I'm glad that it was this one that I happened to read first. You will probably be getting numerous comments of praise. :-)
-Shughy