Category: Elma Georgina
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Cintra
Cintra* Harriet Bååw (the spelling of their last name varies: Båf, Båv, Bååv, Bååw, or Båw), Ada’s and Johan Alfred’s youngest daughter, was born on April 9, 1898, in Göteborg. She died at the Sahlgrenska hospital on Nov. 2, 1918. She was 20 years old, and one of the millions of people who died in…
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Maja Christina/Mary C.
Cedar Township, right outside of Fairfield in Jefferson Co., Iowa, is where Johanna’s older sister Maja Christina ended up with her family. Maja, b. 1842, had married Anders Gustaf Grof in 1860. In 1870 they left Sweden for the US with their four children. Cedar Township, Jefferson Co., Iowa, 1905. The old map shows 140…
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Eurogenes
Here it is, the breakdown of my “origins” according to gedmatch.com. Once you have your DNA data you can upload it to the service and run a range of analyses. What this graph shows is how similar my DNA is to the DNA of people in the database who are from these regions. It’s important…
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