My mother’s family was Slavic (Austrian-Hungarian and Czech) on both sides. Both grandparents were very hard workers (as was my great-grandmother on my mom’s side - didn’t know the others). They instilled hard work in all their kids and they passed that down to their kids and so forth. My grandfather spoke with an accent but learned English and insisted by the American way of life. Both he and my grandmother spoke Slav and the kids knew some of the words but he insisted that English be spoken (I don’t think that is unlike the Italians and others the migrated into this country early on and wanted to assimilate and be Americans - unfortunately, that is not always the case today.
Here he is...so more on this later. :-))