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Bruce Jacobson

Me . . . and those who came before.

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Lindqvist, Lindquist.

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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Posted on: 3 February 2023 Last updated on: 17 March 2023 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: 2 February 2023 Comments: 0 Written by: Bruce
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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…
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Posted on: 15 May 2019 Last updated on: 2 February 2023 Comments: 0 Written by: Bruce

Västergötland, 2018

My paternal grandmother, Anna Vitalia Lindquist, and her sister Augusta Ottilia Lindquist–my great aunt “Guttie”–emigrated from southwestern Sweden in 1901…
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Posted on: 6 January 2019 Last updated on: 24 July 2022 Comments: 0 Written by: Bruce
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My Family’s Names

Explore Family History Stories about my immediate Jacobson+Phillips family, and stories about my grandparents’ and their ancestors: Or select a…
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