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Category: Thompson Family History

• Genealogy Organizing Peterson Family History Thompson Family History

  Serendipity and Systems

  On the day I was to sort through a three-ring binder labeled “Ancestors and descendants of Julia Christine Thompson (1888-1964)”, I received an edit request on Find A Grave for Ludwig Charles Ogren, Julia’s brother-in-law. Julia’s older sister Esther Maria Thompson married Ludwig, who was a Swedish immigrant, on the…

  April 27, 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 History in Chicago Thompson Family History

  In the Old Genealogy Days

  Today’s three-ring binder re-do project (sorting, scanning, printing, recycling, future research planning) is focused on a binder labelled “Peder Mysse Tønnesson aka Peter Thompson 03 Jun 1857 – 10 Apr 1938”. Peter is my 2nd great-grandfather. I’ve been piecing his life story together for decades,. While going through the papers…

  April 13, 2024
• Thompson Family History Tolf Family History Walton Family History

  A Week of Ancestors

  April 7 to 13 My mother called her grandpa ‘Boppa’. Harry Wilhelm Tolf was my mother’s maternal grandfather born April 7, 1884, in Batavia, Kane, Illinois. Harry’s parents were Swedish immigrants who raised their three children in the far west suburb of Chicago. The family was tightly knit; when Harry’s…

  April 7, 2024
• Genealogy Genealogy Goals Genealogy Tips January Birthdays Mysse Family History Newsworthy Genealogy Peterson Family History Tønnesson Family History Thompson Family History

  Are Obituaries Always Accurate?

  My quest continues ~ I’m still searching for the descendants of my Norwegian and Swedish 4th great-grandparents. My focus this year is on those who left Scandinavia and settled in North America. My Norwegian 4th great-grandparents Christian Tronson (1779-1852) and Gunvor Mortensdatter (1788-1875) had 10 known children. Several of the…

  January 4, 2023
• Mysse Family History Peterson Family History Tønnesson Family History Thompson Family History

  and so it begins…

  A genealogy filing project kept bringing me back to the cousin quest I began years ago. Add to that a recurring daydream about a future trip to Scandinavia, inspired by the Thompson sisters in my family tree. Gradually my 2022 genealogy goal changed from working my way through a 67-page…

  January 10, 2022