Collecting research on my family and its history turned out to be an interesting and insightful opportunity, through which I learned much more than I expected . When I started this project, I knew that I wouldn't find as much useful information on the Internet as some of my peers. Indeed, I realized that I would have to rely on other primary resources such as my parents and my grandparents to reveal to me the history of my ancestors. After interviewing them, my family history became much clearer to me. More than 2 millennia ago, around the 3rd century BC, a group of Tamil-speaking people from present-day South India migrated to the neighboring island of Sri Lanka. Among these people, known today as “Sri Lanka Tamils”, are my ancestors. Centuries later, in the 1200s, these Tamils ​​formed the Kingdom of Jaffna, an independent monarchy covering the northern part of Sri Lanka. In 1505, the Portuguese took control of almost the entire island, and over the next centuries control of the island transferred between the Portuguese, Dutch, and British. After several wars and treaties, Britain took full control of Sri Lanka (then called "Ceylon") in 1815. After the arrival of Sri Lankan Tamils ​​in Sri Lanka, over time a caste system developed in their society. For example, there were the Karaiyar (fisherman) and Piramanar (Brahman) castes. My maternal and paternal ancestors were members of the Vellalar caste, made up of agricultural owners. Members of this fairly numerous caste earned their living by growing cash crops and selling them in local markets. The majority of my ancestors lived in the small village of Puloly, in what is now the town of Point Pedro, in the far north of the country. tip of the island. Pulol...... middle of paper......this generation had hopes of being more than farmers and adapting to a technologically advanced and changing world. My appappa and ammamma got married on September 14, 1962. Soon after, he was promoted to electrical engineer and was transferred to Batticaloa, a town on the east coast of the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka. Together they lived in Batticaloa and had two boys and three girls, including my mother.ParentsMy father (appa) was born on 26 November 1960 in a hospital near Puloly. Around this time, tensions began to grow between the Tamils ​​and the Sinhalese, Sri Lanka's main ethnic group. In 1956, eight years after independence, Solomon Bandaranaike, a Sinhalese nationalist, became Prime Minister of Sri Lanka. He made Sinhalese the national language of Sri Lanka and encouraged the government to support Buddhism, the religion of the Sinhalese..