Hello Jani,
Thank you for your response. Would you say that I have little or no chance of ever tracing my grandfather's line seeing as both he, and his mother were illegitimate? I do believe that you have found the correct Isaac Edvard Korpela. I was wrong, he was born in 1887. I looked for the source of your information and found a phrase that I don't understand. "itsellinen in Wierula". Can you help me with this? I guess maybe this explains why my grandfather did not wish to discuss his mother. There must have been a stigma attached to his birth at that time. Is there anything in the information that might suggest that his mother was an immoral woman?
Thank you again for your help.
Carleen D. Henderson
Thank you for your response. Would you say that I have little or no chance of ever tracing my grandfather's line seeing as both he, and his mother were illegitimate? I do believe that you have found the correct Isaac Edvard Korpela. I was wrong, he was born in 1887. I looked for the source of your information and found a phrase that I don't understand. "itsellinen in Wierula". Can you help me with this? I guess maybe this explains why my grandfather did not wish to discuss his mother. There must have been a stigma attached to his birth at that time. Is there anything in the information that might suggest that his mother was an immoral woman?
Thank you again for your help.
Feb 4, 2010