When I obtained the Civil War pension application of Samuel August Samuelson , the brother of my 3rd-great-grandmother Johanna Carolina Samu...

Johanna Carolina My 3rd-great-grandmother Johanna Carolina Samuelsdotter (Samuelson, Erickson) was born 180 years ago today, on 18 Augu...

District subdivisions in Mjölby Municipality. Lantmäteriet [ODbL ( http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/ ), CC BY-SA 2.5 ( http:...

Vidette-Messenger , 29 May 1931, page 4 On 27 May 1931, Marie Louise (Borg) Dahlquist , her daughter Juliet (Dahlquist) Gilbert , her s...

When I saw that the 52 Ancestors Challenge Week 5 theme was "Plowing Through," I immediately thought of Nels A. Samuelson, the hu...

Image contributed to Find A Grave by Eva Hopkins , researcher at the Westchester Township History Museum , Chesterton, Indiana. Funeral...

The Saturday before Thanksgiving is National Adoption Day . The day is intended to raise awareness of the large number of children in foster...

My 3rd-great-grandparents John and Johanna (Samuelson) Borg and their family lived in the Swedish community of Baillytown in Porter Co...

In 1880, the household of my 3rd-great-grandmother's brother Samuel Samuelson included a servant who was keeping house. Her name was giv...

This month marks the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, so I thought I'd start my blog off by honoring the members of my family who par...