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Family roots and occupations

town in Germany and what did your grandparents do for a living my grandma one of them was a house cleaner and one was a dentist both grandmas and one was and then my grandpa's u...

Course: Close relationships and home lifeSection: Personal and family historySubtitles: en

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in a little

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town in Germany

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and what did your grandparents do for a

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living my grandma one of them was a

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house cleaner and one was a dentist

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both grandmas and one was and then my

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grandpa's

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um one was a professor and the other was

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a

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I don't know he made valves

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for he worked in Factory

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were you born in the United States yes I

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was

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and where were you born I was born here

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in Los Angeles California

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did you grow up here I did I grew up in

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the city of Glendale

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and were your parents born here no

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they were born in Colombia South America

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where were your grandparents born uh

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same place Columbia South America

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and what did they do for a living

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my parents are grandparents

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um your parents my mom worked for the

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State of California until she retired

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and my dad just did odd jobs

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what did your grandparents do for a

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living

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honestly I'm not sure what my

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grandfather did I know my maternal

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grandmother

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