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Category: Tolf Family History

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Looking for Landstroms

One of the death records on my to-do list for the library lock-in was for the wife of my 3rd great-uncle Johan Willhelm Landstrom. Olivia Carolina Wind is special to me because decades ago I connected with a mutual cousin of ours in Sweden. Lars Wind and I formed a…

September 30, 2024
Genealogy Landstrom Family History Mueller Family History Schmitt Family History Tolf Family History

A Week of Ancestors 5/12

May 12 to May 18 BIRTHS: Although there are a number of births on this week’s calendar, the name that caught my eye first was that of John Nicholas Schmitt. Six years older than my great-great grandmother Elisa, big brother John was born in Hellimer, Moselle, France on the 16th…

May 12, 2024
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A Week of Ancestors 5/5

May 5 to May 11 BIRTHS: Was it fun I wonder, when a child was born on her grandmother’s birthday 157 years ago? Or did people not make as much of those events as we do today? Maria Josephina Karlsdotter was born on this day in 1867 in Hökhuvud, Uppsala,…

May 5, 2024
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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
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
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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
Home Office Organization Organized Genealogy Organizing Tolf Family History

Delayed Gratification

This morning I put a second coat of paint on a small shelf and a mailing tube. The shelf had been in our garage for years. The mailing tube contained a Swedish family history chart dating back to 1620, a gift from my cousin, another Tolf descendant. In its new…

January 31, 2024
Genealogy January Birthdays Tolf Family History

January 1, 1858-1921

My second great-grandfather was given the name Pehr August when he entered the world on 01 Jan 1858 in Svenarum, Jönköping, Sweden. He was the 5th of eight children born to spiksmed (nail-smith) Carl Tolf and his wife Helena Stina Åhman. Pehr was just 11 years old when his oldest…

January 1, 2023
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Carl Tolf in kyrkoböcker

Two hundred and fifty four years ago a young Swedish couple celebrated the birth of my 5th great-grandfather Carl Tolf. Carl’s birth was entered in the church record book with a quill pen – can you imagine? Unimaginable to the priest who recorded the event, I am able to admire…

January 6, 2022
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Pearl Tolf and a marriage certificate

Pearl May Tolf shares a New Year birthday with her uncle Peter. Pearl’s father (Peter’s brother) Frans Tolf and his wife Mathilda settled in Dixon Illinois where Pearl and five younger siblings were born. Frans and Mathilda’s oldest child was born in 1883, which means Pearl may have fibbed about…

January 1, 2022