In recent weeks I’ve been exploring the probate records for various Saunders County, Nebraska ancestors. How about a probate record from Sweden? I didn’t even know these types of records existed until a few months ago. I learned more about them at the Lindsborg workshop. Sweden passed a law in the 1700’s that required that […]
The Kreifels brothers in Missouri
Elizabeth Helen (Kreifels) Rademacher‘s grandfather was Herman Kreifels. Herman was the youngest of seven children born to a farming family in Serm, Germany. Serm is a little farm community on the banks of the Rhine River, just north of Düsseldorf. It’s right across the river from the city of Krefeld and that is probably the origin […]
Gustafva Brodd and her siblings
Gustafva (Johansdotter) Brodd was my great-great-grandmother, the mother of Clara Elizabeth Brodd. She was born 1840, married Anders Gustaf Brodd in 1869 and came to America in 1875. For seven years, she and her husband and children lived in Carbon, Wyoming. Then they moved to Nebraska in about 1882 and she died there in 1930. […]
Mathias Blommer: Life in Missouri, 1840-1855
The great-grandfather of Elizabeth Kreifels was Mathias Blommer, who was born in Germany in 1800 and emigrated with his wife and children to America in 1840. The family settled in Loose Creek, Missouri where many other Rheinlander Germans lived. Life in Missouri at this time was very difficult. Land had to be cleared of trees […]
Probate Records of Christian Pearson, Part 3
Last time I was on this topic, I posted the contents of Christian’s will. In it, he left everything to his wife Johanna. However, upon Johanna’s death his oldest son “Per” William (aka Peter William, my great-grandfather) would get the original homestead farm, for which he was to reimburse $1,500 to his other siblings. The […]
