ArkivDigital announced yesterday that many of the church books that they photographed this past summer in the Midwest are now available through their subscription service.
An Ode to Baseball
Now that the World Series is finally turning interesting, let’s turn our attention to baseball. If you’re a Rudeen, you love baseball. It’s the law!
Great-Grandpa in the library
I’m attending an all-day Swedish genealogy conference today at the Denver Public Library. During lunch break, I went upstairs to see Great-Grandpa Hanson!
Rudeen cousins still in Sweden?
With the help of some experts at the Swedish Genealogical Society of Colorado, I have some clues about our relatives still living in Sweden. This will be the first of several posts on this subject – I have lots to share!
Augusta Mathilda’s Irises
When I was in Nebraska last June (2014) with my parents, we visited the Fridhem Cemetery. We had long admired the big stand of irises near Gust and Augusta Rudeen’s grave but had never seen them blooming. Actually, the stand is probably too old and thick to bloom. We dug up a few rhizomes to […]





