{"id":142,"date":"2012-07-12T09:28:09","date_gmt":"2012-07-12T16:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/norsky.net\/TerisBlog\/?p=142"},"modified":"2012-07-12T09:28:09","modified_gmt":"2012-07-12T16:28:09","slug":"am-i-karelian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/?p=142","title":{"rendered":"Am I Karelian?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><\/strong><strong><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/officeimg.vo.msecnd.net\/en-us\/images\/MH900442664.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"325\" height=\"325\" \/>As I chase down my Finns, I have pinpointed them to the city of Viipuri\/Viborg\/Vyborg and the surrounding area. Many of the people in this area claim a Karelian heritage, a sub-group of Finnish ethnicity. They purport to be the &#8220;purest&#8221; Finns, not contaminated from interaction with Swedes. Today&#8217;s Karelians live in the vicinity of Europe&#8217;s largest lake, Lake Ladoga. The people are distributed across eastern Finland,\u00a0 Russia&#8217;s Leningrad Oblast, and the Republic of Karelia (which is part of Russia). Viipuri and its environs lie in the Leningrad Oblast.<\/p>\n<p>But not everyone there is Karelian. Was my family? I never heard that word as I grew up, so I do not know.<\/p>\n<p>How will I find out? I have been reading every book and article on Karelia that I can find, but there are not many. Very few have been translated into English. With the limited resources I can find, I am learning about such obscure topics as Karelian mushroom hunting and 19th-century childbirth rituals. This is not much to go on, but I do know that my Finnish great-grandmother was an avid mushroom hunter. Yet it would be a stretch to conclude a Karelian heritage from this single fact.<\/p>\n<p>I will keep educating myself about Karelia and Karelians. With enough background information, perhaps I will be able to make a case either for or against Karelian roots.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>A church on the Karelian coast<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I chase down my Finns, I have pinpointed them to the city of Viipuri\/Viborg\/Vyborg and the surrounding area. Many of the people in this area claim a Karelian heritage, a sub-group of Finnish ethnicity. They purport to be the &#8220;purest&#8221; Finns, not contaminated from interaction with Swedes. Today&#8217;s Karelians live in the vicinity of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finland","category-genealogy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":143,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/genealogyjottings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}