Children of Carl Magnus Klarström, Part One: Maria Ottilia
This is the first part of a ten part series on the 10 children of my great-great grandparents, Carl Magnus Klarstrom and Christian Elisabeth Bennberg, of Sweden. I am attempting to post what...
View ArticleChildren of Carl Magnus Klarström, Part Two: Christina Josefina
Christina Josefina Klarström was the second child of Carl Magnus Klarström and Christina Elisabeth Bennberg. My last post was about her older sister, Maria Ottilia, who was born in 1865. Christina...
View ArticleChildren of Carl Magnus Klarstrom, Part Three: Carl Gustaf Adolph
This post is going to be short, because I really have very little information on him. Carl Gustaf Adolph Klarstrom was the third child of Carl Magnus Klarstrom and Christina Elisabeth Bennberg. He was...
View ArticleWhy I Love Having Swedish Roots
I feel so incredibly lucky to have Swedish roots. Let me count the reasons….. I have absolutely fallen in love with the beautiful St. Lucia Day celebration. I am bound and determined to attend one....
View ArticleChildren of Carl Magnus Klarstrom, Part Four: Hjalmar Alexander
Hjalmar Alexander Klarstrom was born in March of 1873 in Alvkarleby, Sweden. He was the fourth child of Carl Magnus Klarstrom and Christina Elisabeth Bennberg. His family moved from Alvkarleby to...
View ArticleChildren of Carl Magnus Klarstrom, Part Five: Robert Emanuel
Robert Emanuel Klarstrom was the fifth child of Carl Magnus Klarstrom and Christina Elisabeth Bennberg. He was born on 24 April 1875 in Alvkarleby, Sweden. His family moved to Lenhovda when he was ten,...
View ArticleChildren of Carl Magnus Klarstrom, Part Six: Olga Theresia Elisabeth Klarström
Olga was born the 6th of 10 known children of Carl Magnus Klarström and Christina Elisabeth Bennberg, on 29 April 1877 in Älvkarleby, Uppsala, Sweden. Älvkarleby is near Gävle, on the Eastern coast of...
View ArticleChildren of Carl Magnus Klarström, Part Seven: Napoleon Victorinus
What a name! Napoleon Victorinus Klarström was the seventh child of Carl Magnus Klarström and Christina Elisabeth Bennberg. He was born 26 February 1880 in Alvkarleby, Sweden – south of Gavle. His...
View ArticleChildren of Carl Magnus Klarström, Part Eight: Reinhold Ambrosius
Reinhold Ambrosius Klarström was the eighth child of Carl Magnus Klarström and Christina Elisabeth Bennberg. He was born April 4, 1882 in Älvkarleby, Uppsula, Sweden. His family moved to Lenhovda in...
View ArticleChildren of Carl Magnus Klarström, Part Nine: Klara Petronella Henrietta
Klara Petronella Henrietta was the ninth child of Carl Magnus Klarstrom and Christina Elisabeth Bennberg. She was born in Lenhovda, Kronoberg, Sweden on 22 Aug 1885. She moved with her family to Alem...
View ArticleChildren of Carl Magnus Klarstrom, Part Ten: Charlotta Eugenia Viktoria...
Charlotta Eugenia Viktoria Klarstrom, (or Eugenia as she was called), was my great-grandmother. She was the tenth (and last) child of Carl Magnus Klarstrom and Elisabeth Christina Bennberg. I have...
View ArticleHe drank himself to death
My great-great grandfather, Lars Larson Bergman, died on June 23, 1887 in Gavle, Sweden – one short month before his sixth child (my great grandfather) was born. He was only 39 when he died and he...
View ArticleDelving into my Swedish Roots
My Swedish roots have been calling me. I don’t know what it is, but I’m so interested in following these lines a bit more. Swedish records are wonderful and I know that there is so much information...
View ArticleGenealogy Bank Treasures: My Great-Great Grandma Was Hit By a Car
Family stories had been told that my great-great grandmother Christina Bergman (Kristina Katarina Söderlund) was hit by a car and killed, but that is all I knew. I knew nothing of the circumstances or...
View ArticleSwedish Children Born Out of Wedlock
I am so surprised at how many of my Swedish ancestors were born out of wedlock during the 1800’s. You would expect it to happen once in a while – and I had assumed that it must have been a shameful...
View ArticleWhat a Swedish Household Examination Looks Like
I promise that I”m not trying to make all of you non-Swede researchers jealous. But I had to show you what a Swedish household register looks like. They are really amazing. Really. The household...
View ArticleNo clues in the Death Certificate
One of my pet peeves is when a death certificate has unknown written for the parents. Really? You really couldn’t find out who this person’s parents were?? I had really been hoping that the death...
View ArticleFinding Cousins
Besides sharing my research with known family members and fellow genealogists, this blog also serves as cousin bait. When someone out there starts the journey to searching for their roots, they usually...
View ArticleLittle Mysteries Solved
A while back, I posted a 10-part series on the Klarström family – my great-grandmother and each of her 9 siblings. I posted what I knew about each of them {and for some of them I knew next to...
View Article(Not So) Wordless Wednesday: Christina Bennberg Klarstrom, Niagara Falls
I was so delighted to receive this picture of my great-great grandmother, Christina Elisabeth Bennberg Klarström. She was born in Sweden in 1845. I know through passenger records that she made at...
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