John Martinson’s given name in Sweden was Jöns Mårtensson. He was born September 23, 1833 in Östra Vemmenhög parish in Malmöhus County, Sweden.
John Martinson Project: Introduction
John Martinson is my great-great-grandfather. He was born in 1833 in Kristianstad, Sweden and died in 1901 in Saunders County, Nebraska. By all appearances, he seems to have been a hard-working, ethical, and highly intelligent man.
Assorted Updates
News on several fronts this week: Fraser family DNA testing; Rudeen relatives in Sweden; and an upcoming Martinson project.
Multiples
This week’s theme is “Multiples.” Any twins in the family? What about triplets? Or maybe you have an ancestor with multiple marriages or multiple jobs?
1923 Road Trip – Part 2
About 120 miles west of McCook, by way of Highway 6, lies the small town of Haxtun, Colorado. It’s out on the lonely high plains with endless fields of dryland wheat, some farmed to this day by descendants of Swedish homesteader settlers.
