It's in the genes. . . Awhile back, I decided to look for family resemblances on this really cool website, to which I was introduced by my Swedish blogging friend Thérèse. In my post "Swedish Roots", I showed a picture of a relative (or family friend?) named JP Svensson along with an unknown person from …
This is one of my favorite family pictures. It's Ole and Marie Anderson with their children, (L-R) Lydia, Jennie, Andrew and George. I'm not sure of the date, but George (my maternal grandfather), was born in 1897 and he looks maybe fourteen here? You might remember George from two previous posts, "Oceans of Love" and …
Finding your Swedish roots and more. Over the past few days, I have been enjoying an extremely interesting website (read: falling down a major ancestry rabbit hole). It's in Swedish, at https://www.rotter.se/swedish-roots, but if you don't read Swedish, you can have it translate to English. I had been on the site before but hadn't really …
Or, shall I say, "Swedes"? In Acts 17: 25, the apostle Paul, while in Athens, spoke to the Athenian people about their altar to the "Unknown God". (Photo of Athens ruins by Spencer Davis on Unsplash.) Surely everyone has heard of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. (Photo by Philippa Rose-Tite on Unsplash.) If you're …
Nana's Whimsical World 