We began our day with Sunday Mass at Norra Strö kyrka, where Dad’s great-grandmother Nilla Svensdotter was baptized in 1836. The inside of the church was much like Marbäck, with lots of folk-painting on the ceiling. Our presence at the service doubled the attendance! We wonder if this is typical of church-going in Sweden these […]
We, who were from Skoglösa
Today was spent exploring our Mårtensson heritage. Dad’s grandmother obn his mother’s side was Hulda Martinsson, and her father Jöns (John) came to America in 1869. John came to America with a group of men from Skoglösa farm in Önnestad parish. One of his fellow travelers, Nils Aspengren, wrote a diary about their travels. His […]
To Kristianstad
This morning, our first stop was at the Småland Museum complex in Växjö. They have an Emigrant Museum there that focuses on the mass migration of Swedes to America that began in 1859. I picked up on a few little factoids worth passing along: – First, for those of you in the Matinson clan, […]
