I have written previously about the Brodd family coming to America and how my great-great-grandfather Anders Gustaf Brodd, abruptly quit the Swedish Army. I now have some new documentation that fills in some of the gaps on the timeline.
More Swedish cousins!
I wrote a few weeks ago about some cousins in Sweden on the Rudeen side of the family – today I have news of some cousins in the Brodd family!
Connecting the dots
When I first got the genealogy bug, my goal was to extend my pedigree charts as far back in time as possible. For many of my Swedish ancestors, that’s very doable and gets you to the 1700’s. At one time, I thought my genealogy was mostly “done”. Then I attended a workshop where they suggested […]
Book review: “Giants in the Earth” by Rölvaag, 1927
I can’t believe I’d never heard of this book before, “Giants in the Earth“. It was written in 1927 by Ole Edvard Rölvaag, a Norwegian immigrant and a professor at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. The book is a fictionalized account of original homesteaders on the South Dakota prairie, and goes into quite a […]
Gustafva Brodd and her siblings
Gustafva (Johansdotter) Brodd was my great-great-grandmother, the mother of Clara Elizabeth Brodd. She was born 1840, married Anders Gustaf Brodd in 1869 and came to America in 1875. For seven years, she and her husband and children lived in Carbon, Wyoming. Then they moved to Nebraska in about 1882 and she died there in 1930. […]
