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  1. #OTD 8 October 1833, Anders Peter Svensson was born in Björsäter parish, Östergötland. He was one of only two children born to my crofter third-great-grandparents. Anders followed in his father's footsteps and also became a crofter. He married in 1861 and had eight children. One died before the famine years that started in 1867. The rest of the children survived, grew to adulthood and had children. This family branch stayed mostly in Sweden, unlike his sister's descendants.
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  2. #Chance | CfP: Jewish Genealogy. Peer-reviewed online journal on Jewish genealogy and family history | International Institute for Jewish Genealogy | 🔗 Details: jewishstudies.de/de/nachrichte

    #jewishstudies #Genealogy

  3. On this day in 1679, Jean Gordon Boyd died. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Derrykeighan old church, Co. Antrim, in the Journals: tinyurl.com/boyd1679

    Learn about the Journals at MemsDead.com

    #OTD #Genealogy #IrishGenealogy #Antrim

  4. #OTD 7 October 1798, The soldier Jonas Pehrsson Flink, 23, married Brita Pehrsdotter, 21, in the parish of Stora Malm, Södermanland, Sweden. My fourth-great-grandfather Jonas died in 1807, in the Napoleonic Wars, leaving his widow and three children to struggle. Two of them died young. Brita Kajsa died from measles at age 13 and Claes Jonas died in a work accident at age 12. Only Pehr Eric Jonsson grew to adulthood. The Klickesta soldier torp has been preserved under the auspices of Ericsberg Castle. My brother was able to visit the site and see the cottage where the family had lived.
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  5. I love some #genealogy serendipity. I made a homemade book scanning rig to image an out-of-print book which celebrates the 100th anniversary (in 1981) of the small town of Cushing, Iowa, where my great-great-grandfather August Reyman lived. He's been a big focus of my research off-and-on for over 20 years. This book has many biographies of the residents and my relatives. While I've been cleaning up the images of the individual pages, I stumbled across this gem in the biography of another family that gives me a bit of back story about my family that I'd never seen before:

    > Robert and Jennie and the babe made their way to Clinton County, Iowa, where they began to farm. They continued always to look west. When neighbors of theirs, Reymans, Heitts, and Hunters, talked of the new lands opening up in western Iowa, they were interested in making the move with them…They settled in Ida County; Reymans a little further west in Woodbury County; and the Hunters north of Blooming Prairie, in Minnesota.

    I knew that August had come west from Clinton, but never knew that these families had migrated together. August's wife Louisa was a Heitt, and her sister was a Hunter who I knew had lived in Blooming Prairie.

  6. On this day in 1723, William Dobbin died aged 73. The Journals show a drawing of the coat of arms on his gravestone at Duneany, Co. Antrim. See more gravestone inscriptions from this graveyard in the Journals: tinyurl.com/dobb1723

    Learn about the Journals at MemsDead.com

    #OTD #Genealogy #IrishGenealogy #Heraldry #Antrim

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