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). […]
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 […]
A Rudeen probate in Sweden, part 1
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 […]
Gust Rudeen probate records, Part 3
In the first installment about Gust’s probate papers, we saw that he had assets totaling about $2800 at the time of his death. He did not own any real estate, but he had a nice little farming operation, some money in the bank, and a promissory note against his cousin Augusta Samuelson and her son […]
