I am pissed off not over the child's identity, but rather that for years of belief, since i was a very small child, my relatives had told me stories upon stories that Eino had died on Titanic, and my grandmother had told me that she had a feeling that it was Eino in the grave. No lie.
When my family was contacted about DNA, we were told there were three children that DNA descendents would be coming from, from Finland, Sweden and England. Obviously they jumped to conclusion when the first test excluded who they though it was, and that being Gosta. The test had proved with a higher percentage that it was Eino. A second test was considered inconclusive, and in a sense, since they had a name, unworthy, and unimportant.
When my family found out it was Eino, my grandmother told me that she had known it for years. In the few years that followed the identification, they family held strong to the belief, and what seemed to be prove of where our eternal young was buried. On our family records we had actually written down where he was buried next to his name. We took several flights down over time, to grieve, including me and my small sister. We were there on what would have been his 96 birthday in March.
My family was never informed of an additional DNA test. To us it seemed cut and dried. That’s what they told us, and for five years that is what we believed. When I started to read these posts, I thought ‘How ridiculous! Don’t they know it is Eino?’ I told my family and most of them don’t believe it because we have been told and reassured it was Eino. Nothing else. The child is Eino, and no one else. So obviously we believed it and the DNA. My grandmother is very upset after I told here, and actually showed her your posts(hope that doesn’t bother you
)she is upset and can’t understand the meaning behind it. After we have been told so long it was him, and no one else, it seems in a sense to her wrong that suggestions would be made that it was someone else. Surely you can see that from our point of view. I am planning to get to the bottom of this because this has caused so much pain and difficulty in the family. I am personally, and I may not be the only one in my family, possibly planning to sue who ever told us it was him, and failed to inform us of another possibility, and causing my family so much hell. My grandmother is furious and wants the finalized prove, even if it is not Eino. She wants answers and proper and official closure, as do we all.
