When I was back in Nebraska in June, I was able to collect the probate files for five of my ancestors. This post will take a look at the file for Gust Rudeen. To review, Gust was my great-grandfather, the father of Lawrence Rudeen. He was born in Sweden in in 1855 on the Eket Farm. […]

While at the Johnson Family Reunion back in June, there was a table strewn with “lost and found” photos that were free for the taking. As the afternoon was winding down, there were lots of photos left unclaimed so I snagged all the old-looking ones. That’s where I got the photo labeled, “Augusta’s Brother“. My […]

My great-great-grandparents Gustaf and Clara met and were married while they were servants at the Nobynäs estate in the 1850’s. Shortly after they were married, they left Nobynäs and eventually acquired a farm of their own. Twenty years later, their future son-in-law, Gust Rudeen (my great-grandfather) worked at Nobynäs for one year as a coachman (I just found that […]

My big data project continues at a pace much slower than I’d anticipated. But I’m uncovering so many interesting little nuggets that had escaped my attention before. And of course I go off on tangents as questions come up. Something kind of funny that has turned up is the many ways you can misspell “Rudeen” […]

I’m still up to my elbows in my big data clean-up but more than halfway done! It feels so good to get my records and source citations in good order. As I’ve been going through my Swedish record collection, I’ve looked at a few documents more closely and of course that prompts me to follow up […]