{"id":19241,"date":"2024-07-19T21:59:55","date_gmt":"2024-07-19T20:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=19241"},"modified":"2024-07-27T14:05:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-27T13:05:32","slug":"ancestors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2024\/07\/19\/ancestors\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancestors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things we did together with my father today was look through some very old family photos, trying to figure out who was who. I got to hear some stories of my long-dead grandfather and great-grandparents. We drew a family tree for Ingrid and Adrian to keep all the names straight.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my great-grandfather Eduard, in St Petersburg, then Petrograd, with my grandfather Peeter (born 1911) and my great-aunt Aino (born 1913). Guessing from the children&#8217;s approximate ages, I&#8217;d say the photo is from 1914. Peeter died well before I was born, but I met Aino several times. I remember her as a large-boned old lady with a loud, happy laugh.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/2\/Ancestors_1.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And this is my great-grandmother Gertrud Agathe, with Aino and Peeter again, and their younger siblings Paul and Ott. Ott died young in WW2. Paul emigrated to Canada at some point; I remember him sending gifts to us after the fall of the Iron Curtain. (Including my first jigsaw puzzles ever. Soviet Estonia did not have jigsaw puzzles. I had some home-made &#8220;mosaic&#8221; puzzles &#8211; that great-aunt Aino made and gifted to me, actually &#8211; but the jigsaw puzzles from Paul were an exotic treat.)<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/2\/Ancestors_2.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The boys all have the Toomik family protruding ears. I had the same; I remember having surgery to fix them when I was still in pre-school. Neither Ingrid nor Adrian has inherited them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the things we did together with my father today was look through some very old family photos, trying to figure out who was who. I got to hear some stories of my long-dead grandfather and great-grandparents. We drew a family tree for Ingrid and Adrian to keep all the names straight. Here&#8217;s my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[776,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memories","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19241"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19247,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19241\/revisions\/19247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}