My family is the first family on both my moms and dads side that has moved to America. We have only been here for 9 years. The rest of our family lives in either England or Germany, we don't have a very big family. When we first moved to America, we lived in Minnesota for three and a half years. Living in America is very different from living in England and China. It took a lot of time for us to adjust to the new way of life. After, leaving Minnesota we moved to Chicago. We have lived her for almost seven years now. In the time that we moved to Chicago, my moms brother moved to South Carolina. They were the second family to live in America. They only lived in South Carolina for 3 years, they couldn’t adjust to the new life in America so they ended up moving back to Germany where they live now. Living in America has brought some very great opportunities for our family. Even though there isn’t much history of out family in America, I am sure that now that we are here there will be a lot more to come.
Our middle names play a very big part in the history of our family. All of the kids on my moms side, so her and her two brothers have middle names that connect to the family past. My mom's middle name is Matilda, this connects to her dad's aunt. One of my uncles middle name is David, he got this because my gammys brother was very kind and helpful man so they decided to honor him. The other uncles middle name was Georg, this was my opas first name he is a highly respected physicist, so they decided to give him that as a middle name. Middle names run very far back in our family it is a tradition to make a middle name relate to someone that your relate too, and has done good in this world. Our family may not have much history behind it but when it comes to middle names it is one of the great traditions.
