Category: pioneers
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haunted house
Dutch Ed, the northern Montana pioneer, seems not to have recovered from his wife Olive’s death. The five children were raised by Olive’s parents and siblings in Iowa, and didn’t have much contact with their father. Ed took to gambling and drinking. There are claims that the house he built for Olive became haunted. Footsteps were heard from…
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nils-magnus’ udde
This is Nils-Magnus’ udde, or Nils-Magnus’s headland, outside Oskarshamn on the south east coast of Sweden. It’s named for Nils-Magnus Carlsson, who was a pilot and the father of my great grandmother Maria Charlotta, born in 1857. I believe Nils-Magnus and his family lived in the house straight ahead. Maria Charlotta married Carl Victor Nilsson,…
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dear evelyn
I’m a member of a Swedish/American genealogy group on Facebook. People post there asking for help finding records for missing relatives in either Sweden or the US. Often Americans need help with translations of Swedish documents or correspondence left behind by older relatives. This morning a man asked for help with a postcard dated March 28, 1928. Here is…
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- nils-magnus’ uddeThis is Nils-Magnus’ udde, or Nils-Magnus’s headland, outside Oskarshamn on the south…