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…
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Lindqvist, Lindquist.
Anna’s Swans, 1905
My brother remembers a silk pillow prominently displayed on the living room couch in our grandparents’ home at 21 Hawthorne…
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…
Västergötland, 2018
My paternal grandmother, Anna Vitalia Lindquist, and her sister Augusta Ottilia Lindquist–my great aunt “Guttie”–emigrated from southwestern Sweden in 1901…
My Family’s Names
Select a name below to see biographical facts about individuals in my extended family, such as birth and death dates,…