My grandparents: From Europe to Argentina, by Agustina Borquez

 Jesus Gonzalez was my great-grandfather from my mom’s side. He was born in 1894 in La Coruña, España.

 He grew up there and when he turned twenty years old, he came to Argentina because of the First World War.

 He spent a few days in Buenos Aires and then he moved to the country side six hundred miles from Buenos Aires. He started working with animals and producing vegetables and grains. After a few months he started his own farm.

 There he met Margarita Gonzalez and one year later they got married and had five children.

One of them was my grandmother called Nelida Gonzalez who grew up in the country side. When she was eighteen she met Carlos Spertino , they got married and had three children. My mum and her brothers grow up in the country and when my mum was six, they moved to a small town so my mum could start primary school.

  After my mum finished secondary school, she left that little town and moved to La Plata to study architecture. Here she met my father and when she was twenty-four they got married, and one year later they had their first children, my brother called Mariano.