Pilgrims and Pioneers: I Have Finally Gotten Over the Brick Wall!

Welcome To Pilgrims and Pioneers!

After many years of researching my family geneaology I have been lucky enough to discover actual information about my relatives that lived in the Pilgrim Era and the Pioneer Era- while many people also have realtives from those eras- many do not know their names or where they lived- actually seeing the proof in print makes you much more aware of who they really were.
After discovering these relatives it of course made me curious to learn more about the eras that they lived in and what their lives were like as, the history I learned in grade school had long since been forgotten.
I decided to start this blog for others who are also interested in these eras.
Some of the information here will be actual facts about my realtives and some will be information about the eras in general that I have found on the web.
I hope you will enjoy traveling back in time with me!

Friday, February 19, 2010

I Have Finally Gotten Over the Brick Wall!

Several years ago I stopped finding information on my Great Grandparents that came from Sweden in 1881.
I knew my ggrandfather had twin sisters Anna & Inga and a brother named Johannes- but I had no idea what had happened to them as adults.
A few days ago I once again posted an inquiry on a message board about them and then kind of forgot about it.
Today I recieved an email from a woman in Sweden that had seen my post.
She gave me new information- Anna had married and emigrated to the USA before my ggrandfather had. She also told me about two more brothers I had not known about, one had also emigrated to the USA a year before my ggrandfather. She also gave me the dates my gggrandparents died.
I am so excited to have gotten this information- I am forever in her debt!!