Pilgrims and Pioneers: Memories From Long Ago ca. 1905

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!

Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Memories From Long Ago ca. 1905

These pictures are of my Swedish ggrandparents, my grandfather and my great uncles.
Peter & Nellie came from Kristianstad, Sweden in 1881.
The bottom photo shows them in 1920. The top photo back row:
August, William, Nels, John
Front row My ggrandfather Peter, my grandfather Arthur, my ggrandmother Nellie.
In the bottom photo it appears that my ggrandfather has a white collar on- actually it is his beard grown on the neck only- the top photo shows the same style beard. I am assuming this is some type of Swedish tradition to grow the beard this way.