When asking my parents about our personal migration stories for this task, I found out that I was 25% Greek. I have always known I was Irish and therefore associated my background with that of an Irish descent, however now I have more insight into the complete story of me. My mom's grandparents, also known as my great-grandparents--- Constantine and Antonia--, were both from Greece. They migrated to the U.S. together and settled down in Nebraska. There, they had 2 sons, one of which would become my mom's father and my grandfather. The son, Bill, married my grandmother and had my mom and her brother. As a child, my mom would go to her grandparents house every Sunday and have an entire Greek meal. This meal typically included roast beef and spaghetti, Greek new year bread, and much more. However, when her grandparents died, her own mother and father still carried out the tradition of having a heavily Greek influenced diet. In addition, when my grandfather died, his wife, my grandmother, still carried out the tradition of cooking Greek meals. 

Now, in present day, me and my brothers are having the same experience as my mom; we have Greek food all the time. However, most specifically we have the greek new years bread. This bread has a quarter baked in it somewhere and the person that gets the slice of bread containing the quarter has luck for the entire year. This is a tradition that my great- great-great- etc have been carrying out for centuries and even with the immigration of my great-grandparents, it still continues in my family.

– LM

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