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Bruce Jacobson

Me . . . and those who came before.

Tag: …Jacobson

Jacobson, Jacobsson, Jakobson. Does not include Bruce Jacobson.

Carl Albin Jacobsson

C. Albin Jacobsson . . .
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Dorothy Helen Phillips

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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Posted on: 10 May 2020 Last updated on: 28 June 2022 Written by: Bruce
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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…
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Posted on: 12 September 2019 Last updated on: 3 August 2020 Comments: 4 Written by: Bruce

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…
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Posted on: 22 August 2019 Last updated on: 3 August 2020 Comments: 3 Written by: Bruce
View of hills accross Candlewood Lake.

Candlewood Lake

Our family enjoyed going to Candlewood Lake in western Connecticut on summer weekends. It turns out my father had been…
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Posted on: 21 June 2019 Last updated on: 29 March 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: Bruce

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…
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Posted on: 26 May 2019 Last updated on: 18 January 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: Bruce

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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Posted on: 22 May 2019 Last updated on: 10 December 2021 Written by: Bruce
Till Amerika C.A. Jacobsson

“Till Amerika” Newly Translated

Sunday, the 20th of April 1902, the departure date of my trip, had arrived. With mixed feelings, I anticipated saying…
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Posted on: 16 May 2019 Last updated on: 12 June 2022 Comments: 9 Written by: Bruce

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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Posted on: 15 May 2019 Last updated on: 11 March 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: Bruce
Former Norberg train station.

Norberg, 2018

During a 10-day visit to Sweden I visited Norberg, the home parish of my paternal grandfather Carl Albin Jacobsson. The…
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Posted on: 7 January 2019 Last updated on: 10 December 2021 Comments: 0 Written by: Bruce
Ellis Island Great Halll

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…
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Posted on: 21 April 2015 Last updated on: 10 December 2021 Comments: 0 Written by: Bruce
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My family’s names

. . . are listed here according to surname or “last name” recorded at birth. Biographical facts, such as birth…
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Places and Persons

Acadia NP (3) Archives (4) Boston Harbor Islands (3) Boston MA (3) Connecticut (2) Ferncrest (3) Freeport ME (1) Maine Woods (2) National Parks (9) New York (3) Sweden (4) Tremont ME (2) …Jacobson (12) …Lindquist (4) …Phillips (3) …Sundberg (2)
 

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