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Sweden and North Dakota: Local Genealogy and Google Earth
During the first week of July 2012, I sat down with my grandmother, Vivian Marie (“Larson”) Barth, and we started chatting about genealogy. We, as in the Royal Humanity We, are interested in genealogy...
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Let the Scholars at Your Family and Local History: Swedish Family Photos and...
Albertina (Mattson) Larson. Originally from Willmar, MN, she took up a farmstead with Hans T. Larson in northeastern Wells County, North Dakota. Approximately 20 years or more ago, I recall going to a...
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Fargo Trolls and Ragnarok Weekend
One of the many wood troll carvings at the Sons of Norway in Fargo, North Dakota. Since it has been reported by The Daily Mail that the Viking apocalypse — Ragnarok for those of us in the know — will...
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Happy Mother’s Day
Vivian in the late-1910s on the Swedish-American farmstead just northeast of Bremen, Wells County, North Dakota. That is Vivian’s handwriting at the top of the photo too. It’s Mother’s Day (of course,...
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