My aunt Florence was in Colorado for Thanksgiving and gave this photo to me. Both my grandparents are in this photo, although Florence thinks it was taken before they were married. It appears to be the youth of the Swedish Mission Church in Ceresco, perhaps in about 1921 (Grandpa and Grandma were married in 1923). […]
The Kreifels brothers in Minnesota, Part 2
I hadn’t intended on making this a two-parter but I got some new information this week. While doing some random Googling on this subject, I came across a book called “St. Joseph: Preserving a Heritage” by Idelia Loso that appeared to be about the German Catholic community in Stearns County. An online index of names […]
The Kreifels brothers in Minnesota
When we last examined the Kreifels family, we learned how the two Kreifels brothers (Herman and Sebastian) married two Blommer sisters (Anna Margaretha and Anna Gertrude). The families were living in Osage County, Missouri near the small town of Loose Creek. I’m not entirely sure about why the Kreifels and Blommer clans left Missouri en […]
A Rudeen probate in Sweden, part 3
Wow, I hate it when real life gets in the way of genealogy! Don’t know when “regular programming” will resume, but I wanted to at least get this last part of the Swedish probate document up on the website. To review: Johannes Månsson was the grandfather of Gust Rudeen (my great-grandfather). Johannes was the first […]
A Rudeen probate in Sweden, part 2
In Part 1, we learned about how my third-great-grandfather Johannes Månsson had retired in 1854 to a backstuga called Carlstorp on or near the Eket farm. His son Peter Anders Johansson, my second-great-grandfather, took over the Eket farm that year. Five years later, Johannes died of tyhoid fever. The other day I stumbled across a map that […]
