travel diary: family history
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Then we walked over to mummi for lunch. She told us more about mom's childhood and her own life. She was one of the few people in her family (after her older sister) to go to high school. They had to go to Oulu for that, which is 70 km away from the P— family farm near U—. She told us about ukki's family too. They are originally from Eastern Karelia, but they weren't war refugees: they moved to Lapland for work in the 1930s. That makes the timeline make sense, because I've heard stories about my grandfather L—'s brother E— befriending German soldiers in Lapland. (Though mummi did also mention there were Karelians who were evacuated during the Winter War, returned home in the välirauha, and then evacuated again during/after the Continuation War.) Mummi has worked in the Jyväskylä University library (she studied library science in Jyväskylä), but she was at the P— public library for most of her career.
Then we walked over to mummi for lunch. She told us more about mom's childhood and her own life. She was one of the few people in her family (after her older sister) to go to high school. They had to go to Oulu for that, which is 70 km away from the P— family farm near U—. She told us about ukki's family too. They are originally from Eastern Karelia, but they weren't war refugees: they moved to Lapland for work in the 1930s. That makes the timeline make sense, because I've heard stories about my grandfather L—'s brother E— befriending German soldiers in Lapland. (Though mummi did also mention there were Karelians who were evacuated during the Winter War, returned home in the välirauha, and then evacuated again during/after the Continuation War.) Mummi has worked in the Jyväskylä University library (she studied library science in Jyväskylä), but she was at the P— public library for most of her career.
