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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wow.  Didn't realize so many people were into genealogy.

On my dad's side, just my grandparents.  And I only know the country and region that they came some, as well as a vague understanding of the ethnic origin.  (They spoke one Eastern European language, but lived in what is now a different country, and on my grandmother's side had a last name suggestive of a different ethnicity.)  They were Soviet refugees and my dad had a sort of messed up family life so doesn't like to talk about it.  In any event, they were peasants as I understand it.

On my mom's side, I bet I could ask her for evidence of her grandparents.  I have a vague sense of the regions they were from.  From her telling, they were slightly richer than other peasants and proud of that?  In any rate, good enough to get through all the famines and wars and all.

No plantation owners, and no kings, dukes, famous authors, etc. Farmers, coal miners, day laborers.  [/quote]

The speaking one language but living in another area is an interesting clue.  If you talked to an eastern european historian, they might be able to tell you something about that.   During the Stalinist period, there were while ethnic groups he made move from one region to another due to his paranoia, which created a lot of difficulties on both ends of the equation.  And even before the revolution there were similar problems with paper brokers moving people like pawns on a chess board.  
If you are curious about Soviet Russia, I think my favorite book is mastering the art of Soviet cooking, which is basically a family memoir across the entire soviet period.  It really gives a good sense of what ordinarily people had to deal with and an honest  appraisal of the attraction as well and the problems with the system.[/quote]

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