I’m starting my research from scratch for my great-great-grandfather John Martinson (aka Jöns Mårtensson). Follow along as I correct previous research and fill in the gaps.
- Introduction – 4/8/2023
- Jöns Mårtensson birth and christening in Sweden – 4/9/2023
- Jöns Mårtensson paternal ancestry – 6/2/2023
- Jöns Mårtensson maternal ancestry – 5/7/2024
- Jöns Mårtensson early life – 7/23/2025
- Life in Skoglösa – 12/3/2025
- Emigration to America
- Travels to Minnesota and Nebraska
- Meanwhile, back in Skoglösa
- Jöns Mårtensson siblings
- plus Nilla’s trip to America
- Homesteading
- Break from Lutheran Church
- Family Life
- 1883 drought
- Property Acquisitions
- Death and Probate
- Nilla’s Life after John
- John’s siblings
- Nilla’s siblings
- John’s traveling companions and their descendants
- DNA connections
