A 75-Year-Old
J. Jakobsson, Östanmossa, Norberg, turns seventy-five years old on Saturday 10 November…. Mr. Jakobsson was born in Norberg parish and…
Category: Family History
exploring those who came before
Tracing My Swedish Family Names
What might seem simple—a person’s name—turns out to be full of complexity. When looking into family history I found there…
History Jackpot
I hit the jackpot searching the online Swedish American Newspapers database of the Minnesota Historical Society. My grandfather’s marriage announcement…
Mothers Day
It’s Mother’s Day and I am thinking of when my mother opened her eyes, I held her, and she was…
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Woodmont Road
It was my parents’ dream to make something special of the house on Woodmont Road, their first. My detail-oriented dad…
Caring for the Globe
No, I’m not talking about the Earth. Rather, the world globe given to my father upon his graduation from high…
Candlewood Lake
Our family enjoyed going to Candlewood Lake in western Connecticut on summer weekends. It turns out my father had been…
Acadia Outings
I’ve lost track of visits to Acadia, which is not surprising given that my home is adjacent to the national…
New York-Bound, 1902
After traveling by train across Sweden, Carl Albin Jacobsson arrived Göteborg Central Station at 7:03 on the morning of Monday,…
Eskilstuna in Miniature ~ Brooklyn, New York
When you arrive in New York for the first time, you can be more than a little astonished at the…
“Till Amerika” Newly Translated
Sunday, the 20th of April 1902, the departure date of my trip, had arrived. With mixed feelings, I anticipated saying…
Anna’s Swans, 1905
My brother remembers a silk pillow prominently displayed on the living room couch in our grandparents’ home at 21 Hawthorne…
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