Category: Elma Georgina
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DNA
My strongest match on Family Tree DNA is a man living in Oskarshamn, the city where my dad’s mother’s family, and my dad and his family, all lived. The relationship is not particularly strong, about four generations back, and the link is two sisters, Stina and Cajsa Lisa Olofsdotter, born in Kristdala in 1808 and…
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Eskil Bååv
This is Eskil Lorentz Bååv, my paternal grandfather’s first cousin. My grandfather died in 1933, and after that no one knew, or spoke of, his original family. I discovered the Bååv family through the Swedish church records. Eskil’s mother was Ada (1855-1951), my grandfather’s maternal aunt. Ada was 16 when my grandfather was born, and…
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July 10, 1871
Trädgårdsgatan, Hästtorget, Falköping, in the 1930s. My paternal grandfather Karl Adolf (or, later in life, Carl Adolf) was born in Falköping. Skaraborg, Sweden, on July 10, 1871. At the time his mother, grandfather, and teenage aunt were living in a small house in Trädgårdsgatan at Hästtorget. I’m guessing he was born at…
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