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My Family - Journey Into the Past

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Relationships among family members are among the most complex relationships that define us as humans. Because it’s too important to us we tend to know more about history of our family ancestry. My curiosity to know more about my family led to visit someone who is very special and dear to my heart my grandmother Sarah. My grandmother lives in a small house close to the lake with my grandfather were she keeps a lot of memories about her life in every single part of this house. We sat-down in her warm small salon. She gave me a cup of hot tea and some cookies. I asked my grandmother to tell me about our family, because I know that Sarah is the oldest member of my mother’s side of the family so she probably knows the family history better than others. In addition to that I was always interested in listening to what my grandmother always had to say because my grandmother was always very honest, straight, talkative, and has most influenced the rest of the family. Sarah’s family moved from Armenia after the Armenian genocide. Turks killed a lot of people from Armenian minority in the Turks land after World war I. many Armenian families escaped from the Turkish death to the nearby countries such as Russia, Azerbaijan, Palestine, and Jordan. My grandmother’s family moved to live in Syria. Sarah Qweder was born in 1940 in the Syrian capital Damascus for Two Syrian parents from an Armenian background. Her father joseph was a carpenter who worked all day long to get my grandmother and her five brothers what they need for living. Sarah told me: my father used to be a professional manual carpenter who made chairs, tables and doors for churches. He used to make good money in the summer where he sold his antiques to the tourists. On the other hand her mother didn’t work because she felt that she needed to take care of her children. She was a typical Syrian housewife to where she stayed home cooked, cleaned, and raised her children’s with l

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