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Category Archives: Surname Projects
In the News – Francis Welch Celebrates
This “In the News” clipping is from the Biddeford Saco Journal dated February 24, 1922. It celebrates Master Francis Welch’s fourth birthday party at the home of his grandparents. The table was decorated in pink and white, and Master Francis received many nice gifts. Continue reading
Marshall – Surname Saturday
My look at the Marshall surname, meaning, locations, my ancestors, and my earliest known ancestor’s descendants. Continue reading
Ancestor Sketch – Christine “Stena” (Eriksdotter) Mattson.
This detailed family history traces the life of Christine Ericsdotter from her birth in Sweden in 1863, through her emigration to the United States in 1880, and her subsequent marriage and family life in Minnesota. Despite numerous variations in records of her first and last name, Christine had a full life with her husband Lars Mattson and their 13 children, highlighted by the national census data from 1885-1940. She died in 1942 and was buried in the family plot in Minnesota.
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Posted in Matson Project
Tagged Christine, Christina, Stina, Eriksdotter, Erikson, Mattson, Matson
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Thomas Raidt & the Wisconsin Censuses.
The Wisconsin provides some insight and some additional questions regarding the Thomas Raidt household in the 1880s. Continue reading
Posted in Censuses, Raidt-Langford Project
Tagged Wisconsin, Jefferson County, Watertown
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Ancestor Sketch – Lars Mattson (b. 1859)
Matson ProjectMatson/Mattson LineBy Don Taylor When Lars Mattson was born in 1859 in Järna, Dalarna, Sweden, his father, Lars, was 35 and his mother, Margareta, was 28. He married Christine Ericson on February 4, 1881. They had 13 children in … Continue reading
