Category: American west
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A year onboard a sailing ship?
Kilmory of Glasgow, Karl Adolf’s first yearlong trip. My grandfather, Karl Adolf, grew up on a tiny soldier’s farm, and died a sea captain. He left the home of his mother and stepfather in Toresund, Sörmland, to become a sailor out of the Stockholm Seaman’s House in 1890. He was 19 years old. The coming…
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From Sweden to San Francisco, to Saratoga, to a house in Willow Glen
I’ve been using DNA to try to narrow down the options for Karl Adolf’s unknown father, my mysterious great grandfather known only as Johan Adolf Abrahamsson from Göteborg. I naively assumed that last names I didn’t recognize would jump out at me on the long list of matches, and that I pretty quickly would have…
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Death of Dutch Ed, pioneer
Liberty County Times (MT), 15 Mar 1945: Funeral services were held on Wednesday of this week for John E. (Dutch Ed) Trommer, old-time settler of this section of the country. Trommer passed away Friday evening after only a very short illness, although his health has been failing for a number of years. He was born…
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