My roots (mother's side)

My great-great-grandparents owned one of the oldest and biggest farms of my hometown.

Welcome to Laatu! I'm the second wife of my husband, my name's Eveliina.

I'm Manasse Laatu, born in the 1840s. I've got so many children that some of them had to immigrate to the U.S and Canada to get out of the way!

One of Manasse's and Eveliina's many children was Eeti, my great-grandpa. He wasn't the oldest child, so he couldn't inherit his parents' farm. He went on to marry a woman named Aino.

Hello! My name's Eeti, by the way.

And I'm Aino. Good day!

Together, Aino and Eeti had 10 children!

One of them was me, Erkki! 

I'm Sirkka, born in 1936. I don't know my father that well.

My name's Fanny. I was born in 1901. I bought this house myself! The baby's my second son, Tauno.

Meanwhile, my grandmother Sirkka had been growing up with her mother Fanny and Fanny's mother Eufrosyne. They were living on the other side of the lake from the Laatu's.

I'm Eufrosyne, Fanny's mother.

Erkki would cross the lake between him and Sirkka on boat. Later, they got married. The marriage was a rather unhappy one, though.

My grandmother Eufrosyne passed away in the 40s. My mother Fanny still lives with us.

My father Eeti died before he could meet my wife Sirkka.

Erkki and Sirkka had four children together: Pirkko, Ritva, Keijo and Raija, my mother.

I, Fanny, lived the rest of my life with my daughter's family. In my later years, I was bedridden and blind, though.

I would die by the age of 62... Health issues.

I'm still alive and going strong!

I'm Raija!