Thursday, March 31, 2016

Lisa Beata Berg (1814 - 1868)

My third great-grandmother
B. 16 January 1814      Bro, Varmland, Sweden
D.  30 June 1868      Ed, Varmland, Sweden

Father:  Jan Johan Berg
Mother:  Eva Petronella Bredahl

Husband:  Carl Andersson Rud, married c.1835

Children:
Carl Johan Rudd  1837
Anders Gustav Rudd  1839
Frans Frithiof Rudd  1842
Fredrik Ferdinand Rudd  1845
Axel Wilhelm Rudd  1848
Eva Maria Rudd  1856

I have no information about Lisa's life, but I do know that she is our only link to many, many ancestors going back hundreds of years. I do know a bit about her parents, so I will include them here.


Jan Johan Berg  (1781 - 1811)

My fourth great-grandfather
Born: 11 August 1781     Smaland, Sweden
Died:  9 March 1837    Bro, Varmland, Sweden
Married:  5 May 1811    "the Village" Varmland, Sweden

Eva Petronella Bredahl  (1779 - 1855)

My fourth great-grandmother
Born:  25 December 1779   Orebro, Varmland, Sweden  
Died:  12 January 1855    Bro, Varmland, Sweden

Johan and Eva seemed to have moved around a lot, but I don't know if that was common in those days. I do have information about where they lived. This information came from a Swedish website and I had to do a bit of guessing on the translation, but I think it's all right.

   1804  Johan moved from Smaland to Alvestad, Olserud, Varmland.
   1807  Johann moved to "The Village" where he began working for the Major and Knight Wilhelm
             Von Krusenstierna at North Skanne. Eva may have worked for this person also.
   1812  They moved to Bro.
   1817-1825  They resided in Bergtorp, and then North Ostbro
   1825-1839  Emaus, Vastbro
   1839-1840  Eva lived in Sandy Ridge (I think this was translated to English by the website), Bro
   1840-1841  Eva lived in Remene, Bro
   1841-1847  Eva lived in Southern Sjole, Bro
   1847-1855  Eva lived in Sater, Western Brosater' Bro
   

Wednesday, March 30, 2016

Staying Organized

I knew ahead of time that I would be away from home for a while this winter, so I pre-wrote some posts and scheduled them for future release. On top of that, I got lazy this month. Then I found out last night that Blogger did not release my posts as scheduled, nicely spread out over two months, and instead pretty much dumped them all at once. That's my excuse for the long break. I'll try not to let it happen again.

So far, I've covered my great-great-grandparents, also called "second great-grandparents" and some of my third great-grandparents that are dead ends as far as further information goes. Who knows? I might some day find out more about some of them and I'll add it if it happens.

I've gone as far as I can with my mother's side of the family, but I have much more information about the families of seven third-great-grandparents, all from my father's side of the family. The ancestors of Grandpa Lou (Laurel) came from Sweden, but the further back I go, the more they spread out, through all of Scandinavia and then to eastern Europe. Grandma Alta's family were mostly very early American immigrants from England. As I go farther back in time, I can see that they came from all parts of England and were involved in all the major events in the history of that country.

I have discovered that we have a pretty amazing family history with lots of nobility on both sides. Because of this, there were lots of records kept. Our ancestors were important enough that they are mentioned in lots of historical resources, but for right now I am just making note of names and dates. When I've got all I can find of that kind of info, I plan to spend time looking into all that history and figuring out just who everyone was and why they were important.

It is pretty obvious that this is a project that will last the rest of my life, but it's one that I look forward to working on every day!

Kathy