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 […]
Marriage Record, Lawrence and Clarinda Rudeen
While she was in Colorado for Thanksgiving, Florence asked about a marriage certificate for her parents, Lawrence and Clarinda Rudeen. I had never seen one, so we looked up the instructions for ordering a copy. Florence handled all the details and sent me my copy last week! She said in a note, “Notice the name […]
Youth group photo, a better scan
I couldn’t figure out why yesterday’s image scan of the youth group photo was so terrible. The resolution with my naked eye was better than the 1200 dpi scan! The photo is attached to some heavy cardboard, and I don’t think the lid of my scanner was applying enough pressure. So I tried again this […]
Ceresco Church Youth Group, about 1921
My aunt Florence was in Colorado for Thanksgiving and gave this photo to me. Both my grandparents are in this photo, although Florence thinks it was taken before they were married. It appears to be the youth of the Swedish Mission Church in Ceresco, perhaps in about 1921 (Grandpa and Grandma were married in 1923). […]
A Rudeen probate in Sweden, part 3
Wow, I hate it when real life gets in the way of genealogy! Don’t know when “regular programming” will resume, but I wanted to at least get this last part of the Swedish probate document up on the website. To review: Johannes Månsson was the grandfather of Gust Rudeen (my great-grandfather). Johannes was the first […]
