Mothers Day
It’s Mother’s Day and I am thinking of when my mother opened her eyes, I held her, and she was…
Category: Family History
exploring those who came before
Västergötland, 2018
My paternal grandmother, Anna Vitalia Lindquist, and her sister Augusta Ottilia Lindquist–my great aunt “Guttie”–emigrated from southwestern Sweden in 1901…
Candlewood Lake
Our family enjoyed going to Candlewood Lake in western Connecticut on summer weekends. It turns out my father had been…
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…
Anna’s Swans, 1905
My brother remembers a silk pillow prominently display on the living room couch in our grandparents’ home at 21 Hawthorne…
Ellis Island 107 Years Later
I think my grandfather would be proud. On Tuesday evening I attended a black-tie event in the Great Hall at…
Norberg, 2018
During a 10-day visit to Sweden I visited Norberg, the home parish of my paternal grandfather Carl Albin Jacobsson. The…
Charlotta’s Wedding Shawl, 1875
Give to either Yale or Historic Museum. Augusta “Guttie” Lindquist (c. 1970). Augusta Ottila Lindquist, my Great-Aunt Guttie, knew that…
“Till Amerika” Newly Translated
Sunday, the 20th of April 1902, the departure date of my trip, had arrived. With mixed feelings, I anticipated saying…
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…
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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…
New York-Bound, 1902
After traveling by train across Sweden from Norberg, his hometown, Carl Albin Jacobsson arrived Göteborg Central Station at 7:03 on…