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Bruce Jacobson

Me . . . and those who came before.

Tag: Sweden

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
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

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
My visit to Stigmanspasset rift valley.

Stigmanspasset, Tivedens Nationalpark

Tivedens nationalpark is located in southern Sweden’s wildest forests. The area is strewn with glacial erratic boulders and cut by…
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Posted on: 21 September 2018 Last updated on: 17 August 2019 Written by: Bruce

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