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Category: Mangels Family History

• Clarke Family History Genealogy Littrell Family History Mangels Family History Mueller Family History

  Three Generation Wedding Day

  My paternal grandparents Harold Clarke Mueller and Frances Lois Mangels were married in Chicago Illinois 94 years ago today ~ August 24th, 1930. Harold’s parents, my paternal great-grandparents Alfred Jacob Mueller and Ellen Gertrude Clarke were also married in Chicago, also on August 24th. Their wedding took place in 1907.…

  August 24, 2024
• Carlson Family History Genealogy Mangels Family History Tolf Family History Walton Family History

  A Week of Ancestors 4/28

  April 28 to May 4 BIRTHS: I first “met” Amanda Sofia Karlsdotter Tolf years ago in a softly lit Family History Center. According to the 1880 census I viewed on the FHC’s microfilm, Amanda and her older sister Frida were working as housemaids in the Geneva Illinois home of a…

  April 28, 2024
• Family History in Tånnö Genealogy Mangels Family History Peterson Family History Schmitt Family History

  A Week of Ancestors

  April 21-27 Seeing the places where my ancestors lived their lives was an amazing part of last year’s trip to Scandinavia. BIRTHS: It was an emotional experience being in the spot where “our” cottage stood 154 years ago. Elis Peterssdotter, who I wrote about here, was born at a farm…

  April 21, 2024
• Genealogy Landstrom Family History Mangels Family History Schmitt Family History Tønnesson Family History Thompson Family History Tolf Family History

  A Week of Ancestors

  April 14-20 BIRTHS: 200 years ago this week, my 3rd great grandfather Johan Peter Landström was born in Göteryd parish in Kronoberg, Sweden. He was the sixth-born child of a master blacksmith (mäster smed) and as a young man became a blacksmith himself. Johan raised six sons, most of whom…

  April 14, 2024
• Family Photographs Genealogy Mangels Family History

  There’s More to this Story

  My dad’s paternal grandparents married young. Very young actually, Gustav Robert Mangels was 18 when he and 16 year old Esther Ingeborg Clarin tied the knot. They were married in a Lutheran church which may explain the embellishment of their ages on their marriage certificate. Both Gustav and Esther had…

  January 12, 2023