I've never been much of a hat person, but. . . I've been saving photos from the Swedish Roots website, and I've categorized a lot of them so I can use them for blog posts. If you've read "The Higher the Hair", "Pull Up a Chair", "These Boots", or even "Mad About Plaid", you'll know …
Victorian and Edwardian wedding photography and more. I don't know who the people in these photos are, but they were taken in Sweden, and they are somehow connected to my family history. I remember when I first saw them, I was surprised that the brides were wearing black. But after a bit of research, I …
. . .were made for tying (or buttoning) . . . I've been looking at vintage photos on the Swedish Roots website and other sites such as Pinterest, this time taking special notice of the shoes on little kids. Since my stepchildren were 15 and 17 years old when I "got them" in 1992, I've …
It's one thing when the photos are from your own family. You may have tons of them. You may even put them up in your house as vintage decor. You may know who they were, or you may not. You may learn about them from a variety of sources. You might even visit the "old …
Falling down another rabbit hole on Ancestry.com. Okay, I get that I might never find Frank Johnson. But since he would have been my first cousin, once removed, I think I have a right to at least look for him. Screenshot from Ancestry.com These kids, on the other hand, were my first cousins, twice removed. …
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 …
Petronella's Picture Album Petronella, unknown year. I've always been impressed with my great grandmother, Petronella (Magnusson) Peterson. If you want to talk about being "Big Girl", Petronella was that and then some. Before we look at her photo album, I'll give you a little background information. In May of 1887, my grandmother Hilma's father, Johannes …
Letters From Geo, Part 2 Background Information: George and Hilma got married on May 16, 1927, after the somewhat precarious courtship you read about in "Oceans of Love". They were married in Chicago and spent (in Hilma's words) a fabulous honeymoon at Lake Geneva and seeing the sights in the big city. Hilma is pictured …
Nana's Whimsical World 