In Part 1, we learned about how my third-great-grandfather Johannes Månsson had retired in 1854 to a backstuga called Carlstorp on or near the Eket farm. His son Peter Anders Johansson, my second-great-grandfather, took over the Eket farm that year. Five years later, Johannes died of tyhoid fever. The other day I stumbled across a map that […]

In recent weeks I’ve been exploring the probate records for various Saunders County, Nebraska ancestors. How about a probate record from Sweden? I didn’t even know these types of records existed until a few months ago. I learned more about them at the Lindsborg workshop. Sweden passed a law in the 1700’s that required that […]

In the first installment about Gust’s probate papers, we saw that he had assets totaling about $2800 at the time of his death. He did not own any real estate, but he had a nice little farming operation, some money in the bank, and a promissory note against his cousin Augusta Samuelson and her son […]

Before we resume our look at Gust’s probate records, I wanted to share some observations about where the family lived between 1882 and 1907, when Gust died. Mom and I stopped at Bethlehem Covenant Church in June and were able to inspect the old church books. The listing for Gust’s family showed that they left […]

When I was back in Nebraska in June, I was able to collect the probate files for five of my ancestors. This post will take a look at the file for Gust Rudeen. To review, Gust was my great-grandfather, the father of Lawrence Rudeen. He was born in Sweden in in 1855 on the Eket Farm. […]