antenati

[joanvillafane]

I am translating a letter written in 1944 from my father to his sister and I need help deciphering a word. The sentence reads "Sono contento di sentire che il Bambino cresce in belleze e ti auguro che il Dio te lo fa crescere sano e degno dei tuoi meriti, darli mano libera e non tenerlo troppo stretto come facevano i nostri _________." The missing word looks like "interrati" but what does it mean? Can it be something else??
THANK YOU for any suggestions!

 

[Siberia]

It might be antenati

 

[joanvillafane]

That's it! Thank you so much!

 

[disegno]

I am translating a letter written in 1944 from my father to his sister and I need help deciphering a word. The sentence reads "Sono contento di sentire che il Bambino cresce in belleze e ti auguro che il Dio te lo fa crescere sano e degno dei tuoi meriti, darli mano libera e non tenerlo troppo stretto come facevano i nostri _________." The missing word looks like "interrati" but what does it mean? Can it be something else??
THANK YOU for any suggestions!

I will hazard a speculation that the word could be "parenti" (relatives, kin)

I am happy to hear that the child grows in beauty and I hope (with God's help) he will make him become healthy and full of your gifts (assets), give him a free had and don't hold on to him to tigh (constrain him) like <our relatives used to do>????

 

[sabrinita85]

Probably it's interrati (buried) or as Siberia said antenati (progenitors, ancestors).