December 8
Tommy Eriksson (Edla's family, see Nov 27 below) has sent me a photo (see
the Photo Album/Edla) of his uncle, John Eriksson. John is one of the
oldest members of the family (83) and lives in Karlskoga, Sweden. Thanks
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November 27 There are three
new photos in the Photo Album of Swedish members of Edla
Hübinette-Eriksson's family, courtesy of Tommy Eriksson of Karlskoga,
Sweden. Thanks Tommy!
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November 13 A new photo in
Edla's photo album, this time of one of the Swedish families in that
branch, Tage Eriksson (the son of Sven Milton and Eva Eriksson) and his
wife Anna-Karin. Thanks Tage!
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November 10
Joyce Erickson-Moore (Edla's family) has sent me some wonderful pictures
of the Carl Erickson family. You will find them in a new section of the
Photo Album (Edla's Family). When I called some of the Swedish members of
that branch yesterday to tell them about the photos, they promised to send
photos of their families, too. Thanks Joyce and Tom!
I've also moved Edla's, Andrietta's and Justina's sections to the main
page, so now you can scroll through the entire family on that page.
The symbols in front of people's names will tell you how
we are related. People sharing the same symbol are either siblings (if
they have the same parents), first cousins (if they have the same
grandparents), second cousins (if they have the same great grandparents),
third cousins (if they have the same great great grandparents) etc. etc.
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October 5 Gordon's son Eric
Hubenet has sent me a picture of himself and his fiancée Lisa, and photos
of his nieces Holly and Alexis (see Photo Album/Ed's family). Thanks Eric!
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September 18 Susan Hubenet
sent me a link to an eywitness account of how a Sgt Hubenet was wounded
in WWII. It turns out that this sergeant was Frank's son Grant. I've put a
link to the Second Cavalry website in a blue button next to Grant's name
on the main page (Frank's family). Thanks Susie!
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September 16 I've added a
few old photos
1) A photo of Jenny and Victor Andersson when they
visisted Sweden in 1921 (Photo Album / Jenny) 2) A photo from my grandparent's wedding (Memories of
Ruth / blue button Ruth Hübinette) 3) A photo of Beda and Gustav Lindstrom (Photo Album
/Beda) 4) A photo of the sanatorium in Malmberget where Herbert
Haddon Hübinette died (Herbert Haddon / main page) 5) A photo of my paternal grandfather Oscar and his two
brothers (Oscar Back's family (blue button) / Ruth Hübinette/ main
page).
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September 15 Edla's family
tree is growing all the time: Roy Carlson of Middleville, MI has sent me
info about his family as well as other families in Edla's branch. Thanks
Roy and Sandi!
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September 13 Thanks to info
from Rachel Erickson (see Sept 11 below) I've been able to locate
another member of Edla's family, Joyce (Erickson) Moore. Joyce gave me a
lot of interesting and useful information about her family. You will
find her e-mail address and phone number in the next version of the
Family Mailing List which I'll send out shortly. Thanks Joyce!
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September 11 I've finally
located some of the members of one of the two US branches of Edla's family,
that of Karl and Hulda Erickson. Their granddaughter, Carol Erickson of
Portland, OR, has provided a lot of info on her family, as has her mother,
Rachel Erickson of Stillwater, OK. There are also some family photos in
the pipeline. Thanks, Carol and Rachel!
Check out Edla's and Andrietta's pages (which will soon
be transferred to the main page). Those pages can be reached via blue
buttons next to Edla's and Andrietta's names in the 'First
Emigrants' menu). There are lots of new cousins there, both in the US and
Sweden!
More babies: Alexander and Ashley King (Frank's family) had a boy, Zander,
a couple of months ago. Congratulations!
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September 10 A couple of new
photos: I've finally found a photo of Ed's wife, Mamie, taken when she was
young. It's posted on the main page next to Ed's photo. In the Photo Album
(Ed) is the photo of Ed and Mamie from which I cut out the picture of
Mamie.
There is also a new photo of Jenny and Viktor in the Photo Album (Jenny).
If anyone has a photo of Ed's first wife (Hilda Marie Petersen) I'd
appreciate a copy. I'm also looking for a photo of Frank's second wife,
Anna, and a larger photo of his first wife Ellen (the one on the main page
cannot be further enlarged).
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September 8 Three new photos
in Ruth's photo album, one of my daughter Katarina and her newborn baby (see
also below), one of my great paternal grandparents Julia and Otto and a
very old photo, probably from the 1850s, of my great great paternal
grandmother, Maja Olsdotter. It's the oldest family photo I've ever come
across.
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September 5 A new addition
to the family, this time a Swedish one: my daughter Katarina Hübinette
gave birth to a boy (4kg, 52 cm) five hours ago. The proud father is her
partner Alexander Lindqvist. The even prouder maternal grandfather will
take some photos tomorrow and post them on the website.
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September 4 I've finally
managed to locate several of Edla's relatives in the US, the descendants
of Carl Peter Erickson (see Edla's page). Many thanks to Rachel and Carol
Erickson
for providing info about their families!
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August 28 Eric Hubenet,
Gordon Hubenet's son, has informed me of a new addition to the family: his
sister Stacey gave birth to a boy, Michael Gerard, on August 15.
Congratulations, Stacey and thanks for the update Eric!
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August 23 Keith Andersson
has sent me a photo of his family (see Photo Album / Jenny) Thanks Keith!
There is now some more information about the emigrants in Edla's family.
Any info about those two families would be greately appreciated.
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August 19 Gregg Johnson
(Alan Johnson's son) has sent me a photo of his family and Kenneth
Johnson's wife Inez (see Photo Album / Selma). Thanks Gregg!
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August 17
Edla Hübinette's family tree is now complete (a few dates
are missing) and, provided that you have kept me updated of additions to
the family, the website now contains all the descendants of Lars
Wilhelm Hübinette. I've counted the people listed on the website and it
turns out that Lars
Wilhelm/Ulrika Eleonora now have 478 descendants, 411 of whom are alive
today. About two-thirds live in the USA (307 as compared to 104 in Sweden) We're a big family!
I've also changed the symbols in front of people's names,
so that they consistently show what generation a person belongs to.
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August 9
I have found one more child in Lars Wilhelm's family.
Frank, Selma
etc. had a younger brother by the name of Lars Otto, b. 1870, who died at
the age of 9 months.
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August 7 (See August 2)
I've now completed my research into the families of Andrietta
Hübinette and Justina Hübinette (Frans, Selma and Wilhelmina's sisters in
Sweden) and their family trees are now complete.
I still have some work to do on Edla's tree but I hope to be able to
finish it this week. I've also been promised family photographs by some of the
relatives I've traced, but it will probably be a while before I can post
them.
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August 5 I've added some
twenty letters to the 'Letters from America' section. They were sent by
various US members of the family to Ingeborg Larsson in Sweden (Levida's
husband Eric Larson's sister). Most of them are from Levida, but there are
also letters from Elsie Ash, Bill Streffon and George Larson. As usual,
they contain a lot of interesting pieces of family history.
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August 4
I have found the name of Lars
Johansson-Weier's wife (the second generation in the Ekström family tree). Her
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August 3
I've scanned a notebook in which Gustav Ulrik recorded the births of his
children. You'll find it under a blue button next to the photo of Gustav
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August 2
I've begun to research the families of Gustav Ulrik's,
Frank's and Selma's sisters Edla, Justina and Andrietta (the ones who
stayed in Sweden).
I've had a lot of help from one of Edla's descendants, Eina Dexter, who
lives in Svartvik in the summers and Green Valley, AZ in the winters. You'll
find the new pages by clicking on the blue buttons under Edla's, Justina's
and Andrietta's names in Family Tree I.
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July 27
I've added two postcards to the collection of 'Letters
from America', one from Herbert Haddon Hübinette to my grandmother Ruth
and the second one from Levida to Ruth. I've scanned both sides of the
actual postcards so that you can see what they look like. The card from
Herbert is the earliest family correspondence I've found so far (1911). In
it, he mentions Fritz' visit to Sweden that year.
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July 4 My
aunt, Sigbrit Rehn, has written about her parents (my grandparents),
Ruth and Oscar (see 'Memories of Ruth and Oscar' under Ruth on the main
page).
June 28
I found a postcard that Jenny wrote to her parents in
Svartvik in 1916. I've posted it on the 'Letters from America' page.
Does anyone know if the Union Depot in Joliet is still there? It's an
impressive building.
June 24
I have a new Guestbook provider. Please read the instructions on the
Guestbook page. I have saved the old messages and will soon make them
available to you again (on the Guestbook page).
June 18
Two more photos in Selma's photo album: one of
Jack Ekstrom (Golden CO) and his namesake uncle (Jack Ekstrom, Portland
OR), and one of Jack and Diane Ekstrom's new puppy, Roxy.
June 16
Three new photo's in the photoalbum, two sent by Don
Johnson (Jenny's family) of Victor, Jenny and Genevieve Andersson and one
sent by Erik Barrington (Ed's family) of himself, his Jennifer and
daughter Alexis. Thanks Don and Erik!
May 29 Beda's granddaughter Beverly
Horschler has sent me (via Richard Hubenet) some memories of her
grandmother (see under Beda on the main page).
Many thanks, Beverly!
April 3 Richard Hubenet has written about his parents
Fritz and Karin
and his document also contains a lot of family photos. You'll find it
under
'Fritz' on the main page. Thanks, Richard! The 'Letters from
America' pages have been extended and you'll now find letters there from
Levida, Beda, Ed, Elsie and Ellen. You'll get to that page by clicking on
'Letters from America' in the left-hand screen menu.
March 10 Who are these people? If you know, please drop me a
line!
lars.hubinette@telia.com
  
March 4 As she was going through a couple
of cardboard boxes in her basement, my Aunt Sigbrit found a lot of letters
from the US sent to my grandmother Ruth in the 1950s by Levida, Beda, Ed,
Ruth Rohel, Genevieve Johnson and others.
I'm in the process of translating the ones that are in
Swedish and I'll scan the ones in English. Subject to the approval of the
writers' relatives, I'll then post them on a new page which can be
accessed via the link 'Letters from America' in the left hand menu. There
are now nine letters there from Levida and I'll post more in the next few
weeks.
February 3 Lots of new (old) family photos
from Sweden (see Photo Album / Ruth).
January 22 Sadly, my uncle Bertil Rehn, the
husband of Sigbrit Back-Rehn,
died yesterday in his home in Sävar. He was 84 years old.
January 15 Going through some old photo
albums I found at my parent's place
I came across photos of our common ancestor, Lars Wilhelm Hübinette (the
father of Gustav Ulrik, Frank, Selma and Wilhelmina) and his wife, Ulrika
Eleonora Ward. You'll find them in the 'Family History' section. I also
found two very old photos of Gustav Ulrik and Maria Lovisa, probably taken
when they were in their twenties, i.e. around 1875 (see Gustav Ulrik
Hübinette on the main page). I also found photos of my great
grandparents, Otto Back and Julia Kindahl (see under
Ruth - blue button next to the photo of Oscar Back.)
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December 3 Fixed some odds and ends and, for
those of you who are musically inclined, added a link to my son John's
website where you can listen to music he wrote. You'll find the URL next
to his name on the main page, or here: http://hem.bredband.net/minefield/ac/
October 30 Lynda Hubenet-Hausman sent me a photo of herself
and her husband Scott (see Fritz' photo album). Thanks Lynda!
October 17 I was just notified of a new addition to the family.
Chris Hindricks (Selma's branch) sent me an e-mail informing me that his
sister Joanna Gray and her husband Erik had a daughter, Nora Lynn, on October 13.
There is a photo of Joanna and Nora Lynn in the photo album (Selma). Congratulations, Joanna and Eric!
As you may have seen, I've also begun to post photos of
the spouses of the Hübinettes on the main page. However, I'm missing a
few photos, so if anyone has a photo of Frank's wives (Ellen and Anna),
Ed's first wife (Hilda Marie) and Beda's first husband (Gustav Lindstrom),
I'd be very grateful for a copy.
August 25 I've posted some
photos taken when Sally (Levida's grand daughter) and Paul Hahn visited us in early August this year (see Photo
Album/Levida). We really enjoyed having them here in Umeå. In addition to
the five second cousins Sally met in Umeå she also got to meet two
second cousins on her grandfather's side in Östersund (Mary and Kerstin,
see one of the photos). I'll post some more photos from their visit
shortly.
June 29 Today I had an e-mail from Leona
Nason McMoam, grand-daughter of Ingrid and Leonard Ekstrom (Selma's
family). She sent me an update on her family which you can see on the
Ekstrom page (under Selma).
April 27 Jenny and Victor's grandsons Don
Johnson and Woody Anderson have sent me some memories of their
grandparents. I really enjoyed reading them, especially since I know so
little about my grandmother's siblings. You'll find the new page under a
blue button on Jenny's page.
April 2 I've added two more family trees,
one for the Hägg family and one for the Back family, i.e. my maternal
grandfather's family and my paternal grandfather's family (see under
Ruth/Folke).
March 28 I just had an e-mail from Erik
Berrington informing me about some recent additions to the family: Gordon
Hubenet's daughters Jennifer and Stacey had baby girls in May 2004
and January 2006, respectively (see under Ed). Erik also sent me some
family photos (see the Photo Album / Ed)
March 11 My Aunt Sigbrit found a beautiful
15x10" poster from the 1920s with "our" Miss America, Lois
Delander. There's now a photo of it in the Photo Album (Wilhelmina). I've
also posted another old photo (from 1957) of the Hübinette-Back and Rehn
families (see Photo Album - Ruth).
March 7 I found an old photo of myself and
my two sisters which I've now posted in the Photo Album (see Ruth's
album).
February 22 Bob Miller, a gunner's mate on
the USS Peterson during WW II, witnessed the sinking of the Jacksonville
and took a picture of the convoy shortly after the sinking. The photo is
now posted on the Jacksonville page. I'm indebted to Bob's daughter
Barbara for sending me the photo.
February 12 I've scanned some of the
Jacksonville documents mentioned below (Feb 1). Click on a blue button on
Edward's page (Fritz Hubenet -> Edward)).
February 4 Three new photos in the photo album of
my first cousin Ulrika Mogren (Back) and her family (see under Ruth).
February 1 Dr. Theron Snell of the
University of Wisconsin has sent me several very interesting documents
relating to the sinking of the Jacksonville. Unfortunately, I haven't yet
had time to scan them all but I will do so shortly. However, I have posted
some ULTRA intercepts that Dr. Snell sent me
January 30 There is now a Sorensen page on
the website, which lists the ancestors of Marie Christine Sorensen's
Danish ancestors. The information was sent to me by a Danish genealogist,
Marianna Strombski. Thanks Marianna! Click on the blue button next to
Marie Christine's name to see the page (Frank's family)
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January 17 I have added a new page
containing the Swedish ancestors of Diane Swenson-Ekstrom (Jack Ekstrom's
wife). I'm indebted to Ingemar Svensson - a distant relative of Diane's -
for much of the information. Click on the button next to Diane's name on the main page (under
Selma) to access the page.
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2004
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December 20 There is a new photo of Chris
Hinrichs (Selma's family) in the Photo Album. If you would like to know
more about Chris, he has a website at www.
andsomeguy.com
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December 10 Thanks to information provided by
Theron Snell and Rush Webb, Richard Hubenet and I were able
to locate Frank B Hodges, one of the survivors of the sinking of the
Jacksonville, and Richard had a long telephone conversation with him
today. You'll find Frank's story on Edward's page (under Fritz).
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December 8 Mr. Rush Webb of Sandusky, Ohio has
sent me some very interesting information about the Jacksonville. He
actually met one of the survivors in October 1944. Thanks Rush!
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December 3 I've posted some additional
information about the Jacksonville (see under Fritz / Edward Hubenet).
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November 30 I'm indebted to Mackenzie J.
Gregory, formerly of the Royal Australian Navy, for new information about
the sinking of the Jacksonville, the tanker on which Edward Hubenet served
(see under Fritz).
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November 29 I've posted three new photos
in Fritz' photo album
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September 28 I'm indebted to Church Secretary
Maryann Ricken of the Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Joliet for a lot of new
information about Frank's second wife, Anna (see under Frank Hubenet).
Thanks Maryann!
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September 26 I've added two new pictures of
Jenny and Jenny/Victor to the Photo Album.
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September 21 As you know, the Swedish side of
the family is greatly outnumbered by the US side, so I'm happy to report
two new Swedish additions to the family: Simon b. 2003, the son of Jonas
Back, and Hanna b. 2004, the son of Oscar Back (see under Ruth).
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September 12 Ginny Highdon, Billie Watson and
Eleanor Corrigan have sent me more information about Frank's
second wife, Anna. Her married name was Buffa and I'm currently trying to
find her maiden name. If anyone knows what her Swedish name was or where
she came from, please drop me a line.
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August 31 I've added some genealogical
information on Martin Alexander's family in Sweden (Ellen's family). There
is also a new entry in the Guest Book submitted by Chris Hinrichs (Selma's
family), who also provided a few birth dates and places of residence I
didn't have before. Thanks, Chris!
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August 8 I now have access to the entire US
Census collection (1790-1930) and I've spent the past few days finding
dates I didn't have, checking names and spellings etc. etc. I have made a
few changes and many additions. There is now a lot more information about
Wilhelmina's family. I've always have problems finding information about
that branch and today I found out why: Per Gustav Strombeck went by the
name Peter in the USA and his wife Wilhelmina is listed as Minnie in the
censuses. I've also added a few images from the census records (Wilhelmina
and Axel Johnson).
If anyone would like me to look up a person in the
Census Collection, just send me an e-mail.
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July 30 The Ekstrom family tree has been
extended by two generations (blue button under Abel and Selma). Many
thanks to Kurt Andersson, Holmsund, for
providing missing pieces of information.
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July 26 Thanks to invaluable assistance from a
fellow family historian, Ingemar Widestig in Hallstahammar, there are now
two more generations of Axel Johnson's family on the website.
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July 25 I've just returned from a couple of
days' research into Axel Johnson's family at the Genealogical Research
Center in Ramsele.
I managed to find his great grandfather and great great
grandfather and also some additional information about Axel's siblings.
The Johnson family tree now includes seven generations (click on the blue
button under Axel Johnson's name on the main page/Selma Hübinette).
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July 22 Lots of new information on the descendants
of William and Inez King (Frank's family). Thanks for the update, Jacquie!
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July 20 I've posted a tree for the Gleissner family
which includes my mother's maternal ancestors who came from Germany (see
under Ruth/Folke).
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July 11 Two new photos again, this time of
three members of Frank's family, Michelle and Brian Colbert, Ken Kind and
Marie King. Thanks for the photos, Michelle!
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July 5 There are two new photos in the Photo
Album sent to me by Dahn Lindstrom (Beda's family), one of himself and one
pf his father, Harry Lindstrom.
Thanks Dahn!
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July 1 My sister Margareta is currently
visiting Susan Hubenet in LA. Susan sent me a photo of her and
Maggie which I posted in the Photo Album (Ruth's family).
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June 18 Thanks to information provided by Anna
Mae (Eckstrom) Gronert and Carol (Eckstrom) Wilson, the Ekström page is
now considerably larger than before. I've also included a photo of a
uniform of the type worn by Karl Jakob Ekstrom when he was in the Swedish
Army in the late 1800s.
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June 15 I've done some research in the Sundsvall
parish records on behalf of Ed Hubennette, a fourth cousin of ours. He is
a descendant of Hindric (Henric) Hübinette, the brother of our great
great grandfather, Lars Wilhelm. You'll find some information on Hindric's
and Ed's families by clicking on a blue button under Henriks name in
Family Tree I.
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June 12 I've updated the Ekstrom file (blue button
under Selma).
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June 9 Two new photos in the Photo Album
(Levida), one from Matt Farny's graduation and a photo from around 1915 of
John and George Larson.
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June 2 Jack, Diane and Jonathan Ekstrom
brought a lot of family photos with them when they visited us in Umeå
last week. You will find those photos under "Selma's family" in
the Photo Album, together with some photos I took during their visit. They
also brought a VHS tape with some fantastic family movies from the 1930s
and onward that I wish you all could see. There is also a new photo of
Don, Tish, Dane and Britt Johnson (Jenny) and one of my cousin Olle Rehn
and his family (Ruth).
The Photo Album is now so large that I've had to split
it up into ten separate files. The downside of this is that you can no
longer scroll through the entire album, you have to use the buttons in the
start menu to see the photos, the upside is that you won't have to wait so
long for the photos to appear.
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April 4 An American friend of mine, Rick
Jones, has written a piece for our website about his impressions of Sweden
and the Swedes. You'll find it by clicking on "Sweden through
American Eyes" in the left-hand menu.
Thanks, Rick!
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March 8 Cheryl Farny has sent me photos
of members of the Farny and Shoop families (see the Photo Album under
Levida).
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February 26 Avis Benning sent
me some dates I didn't have before (Selma's family) and she also
identified the children in the photo taken in Selma and Abel's living room
(see the Photo Album). They are Kenneth and Roy Ekstrom, not, as I
thought, Avis and Kenneth.
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January 19 Many thanks to Sandy Kozeluh and
her mother Shirley, who have sent me a lot of new information
about William Ekstrom's family (see under Selma Ekstrom).
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January 8 I've finally found a photo of
Wilhelmina Hübinette and Per Gunnar Strombeck. It's been in the website
Photo Album for nearly a year, but I thought the people in it were Selma
and Abel Ekstrom. Thanks to Alan Johnson and Avis Benning for helping me
with the identification!
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January 7 There's a new photo of Cheryl and
Steven Farny's sons in the Photo Album (under Levida) and some additional
information about the Gudmundsons (Stanley Johnson's ancestors, see under Jenny
Hübinette).
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January 4 I've updated the Victor Anderson
page with birth dates, spouses' names etc.
2003
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December 31 I've added some marriage dates and
names to the Gudmundson page (Stanley Johnson's ancestors, see under Jenny
Hübinette).
Happy New Year to you all!
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December 17 There's a new photo of Sally and
Paul Hahn's family in the Photo Album.
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December 11 I found one more generation of
Stanley Johnson's ancestors on his mother's side (see under Jenny
Hübinette).
Four new photos of Levida's family in the Photo Album.
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December 10 I've found yet another generation
of Stanley Johnson's ancestors. (his great great great (maternal)
grandfather, b. 1739, ).
There is also a new photo of the Larsson farmhouse in
Jämtland (see the Larson page under Levida) and I've added an obituary
for Levida (see 'Obituaries' in the left hand menu).
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December 3 A photo of the Larsson farmstead in
Ås, Jämtland (see the Larson page under Levida).
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November 17 I have made a new family tree for the
Larsson family which includes the Swedish members of the family (click on
the blue button '....more information about the Larson family' under
Levida).
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November 15 Two new photos in the photo album,
one of Avis and Shirl Benning (Selma's family) and one of Bill and Joyce
Streffon, Sally and Paul Hahn and Dan and Mary Shoop (Levida's family).
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October 13 I may have found two of Axel
Johnson's siblings in a Swedish emigration database (see the 'Axel Johnson
page' under Selma).
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October 7 I've found Axel Johnson's parents
(Selma's family: Nora Ekström's husband). They came from Ljungby in the
County of Kronoborg, and Axel's last name was originally Johannisson.
You'll find the information by clicking a new 'blue button' next to Axel's
name on the main page.
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October 6 I've included the grandchildren of
William Ekstrom in Family Tree II. There'll soon be more information about
that branch of the Ekstrom family. I've also added birth and death dates
for Axel Johnson (Selma's family).
In the left-hand menu you'll find a new item, 'Obituaries'.
I've scanned obituaries I've found for Ivar Strombeck, William Hubenet and
Victor Anderson.
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October 2 Thanks Alan and Avis for sending me
your father's birth date. I'll see what I can find about him in the church
books.
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August 27 I had hoped to be able to locate
some living members of the Ekström family in Sweden, but today I found
that all the children of Karl Jonas Ekström-Karlsson (the only one of
Abel's siblings who returned to Sweden) emigrated to the USA between
1905 and 1922. See the Ekstrom page under Karl Jonas.
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| August 19 I've added a page with
information about Stanley Johnson's ancestors (see under Jenny
Hübinette). There is also a new picture of a model my father made of
the saw mill at Svartvik (click on the new link 'Svartvik' in the menu).
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| August 18 One more Ekström generation:
Johan Persson b. 1732 and Sara Persdotter. The Ekström family
tree now contains nine generations.
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| August 18 I've found another generation of
the Ekström family, Per Johansson and Stina Cajsa Eriksdotter (b. 1762
and 1766) (see the Ekstrom page under Selma).
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| August 17 I've added a page with
information about Victor Anderson's family in Sweden (see under Jenny
Hübinette).
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| August 15 A few corrections of names in the
Photo Album (Selma's family). Thanks Alan Johnson and Avis
Benning! I've also added a few pieces of information to the
Ekström page.
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| August 13 New information about Abel's
generation of the Ekström family. I just found out that all but one of
Abel's siblings emigrated to the USA.
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| August 11 Some additional information on
the Ekström family. Turns out there were two more emigrants in that
family. Two sons of Abel Ekström's brother Karl Erik - Johan Oskar and
Abel - emigrated to the US in 1910 and 1911.
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| August 9 More information on Selma's
family. Thanks June!
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| July 31 I've found the parents of Karl
Jakob Ekström (Abel Ekstrom's father, click on the blue button under
Selma Hübinette). While going through the church books for Sävar, I
also found that one of Abel's brothers, Leonard, emigrated to the USA in
June 1900. Please let me know if you have any information about
Leonard.
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| July 30 The information on June Jankura's
family (see under Selma Hübinette) is now complete. Thanks June!
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July 27 I've changed the layout of the Ekstrom
page (see under Selma Hübinette)
to make it easier to read, and I've also updated Family Tree II.
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July 24 Selma Hübinette-Ekstrom's tree is
now complete (a few birth dates and places of residence are still
missing) thanks to info provided by Jack Ekstrom, Jack Ekstrom
(yes, there are two of them!) and June Jankura.
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July 22 I've added a page with information about
Abel Ekstrom's family (see
under Selma Hübinette). There are also a few new photos of
Levida's family.
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| July 20 A photo of Gustav Ulrik Hübinette's
grave in Svartvik and photos of my sister Birgitta and her children.
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July 9 Thanks to Jack Ekstrom, there is
now a lot of new information about
Roy Ekstrom's descendants (see under Selma
Hübinette).
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July 8 A photo of Nora (Strombeck)
Delander and Ellen (Ekstrom) Johnson, and one of Margierite Kieffer.
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| July 6 A photo of my sister's PWG
(for the uninitiated, that's a Portuguese Water Dog) and one of my
children, John and Katarina.
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| July 4 A new photo of my son, John. Happy
4th of July to you all!
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| July 2 A new photo of the Johnson family
(see under Jenny in the Photo Album)
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| July 1 New (old)
pictures of Beda's family, a nice photo of three young sisters (Jenny,
Beda and Ellen) and a photo of John, George and Elsie (Levida's
children).
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| June 30 More family photos
from Umeå (Sigbritt's family).
A new photo of Frank on the main page and,
in the Photo Album, a photo of
Frank and Gustav Ulrik and his wife taken when Frank visited Sweden in
1895.
Today I found hundreds of old photos from the US that
my Aunt Sigbritt inherited from my grandmother. I scanned and posted six old photos
of Selma's family, but I need some help identifying some of the people
in them. I'll post as many of the others as possible, starting with the
ones that have names on the back (about 30), but it will take a while to
scan and enhance them.
I've also found a new member of the family, Howard,
the son of Ivar Strombeck (Wilhelmina's family). All I know about Howard
at present is that he lived in Detroit. I'll try to find some more information about him.
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| June 26 More family photos from Umeå and a few
pictures of the city.
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| June 25 A few more
photos of my family.
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| June 15 Don Johnson
has sent me a very interesting book, Past Imperfect, by
Carol Daus (Santa Monica Press, Santa Monica 1999).
It describes the process of
tracing one's family medical history with a view to finding information
that may help prevent diseases from striking one's family, and contains
many useful tips about possible sources of such information.
Swedish church books contain some medical information, such as chronic diseases, mental illness,
cause of death etc. It might be of interest to you to
know that I have not found
any serious diseases in our family in the course of my research. On the
contrary, many members of our family lived unusually long lives and most
of them died of old age (see the Family Tree; please note that life
expectancy for a Swedish man in the 17th century was about 30 years, in
the 18th century about 34 and in the early 19th century about 40).
I've also posted a photo of Ellen
Alexander taken when she visited Umeå around 1915-1920 (I have not yet
found any information about her journey) and the travel document that
Levida used when she visited Sweden in 1936.
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| June 12 Finally, a few
photos of my family (see the Photo Album). There'll be many more
in the next couple of weeks!
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| June 11 I've added
marriage dates for Selma and Abel Ekstrom, Frank and Ellen Hubenet,
Ellen and Martin Alexander and Victor and Jenny Anderson which I found
in the Illinois Statewide Marriage Index http://www.cyberdriveillinois.com/departments/archives/genealogy/forms/marrsrch.html
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| May 26 Thanks to Linda
Holman (Lois Delander's daughter) there is now a lot of new information
about Wilhelmina's family on the website.
I've also added a few pieces of
information to the Brief Family History
and a new table (under the family tree) which I hope will you give a
better picture of how the first Hubinette emigrants were related.
Also, I've finally gotten round to
buying a new digital camera, so there will soon be some more pictures in
the Photo Album of us Swedish Hübinettes.
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| May 23 The family
website will not be accessible on May 26 between 01:00 and 06:00 GMT as
the server will be closed for an upgrade of the transmission speed from
2*100Mb to 1Gb.
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| May 11 Some new photos
in the photo album, one of Marty Alexander and one of the Larson
bookstore in LA.
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| May 1 As some of you
may have seen, there have been two messages in the Guestbook that have
nothing to do with our family. To safeguard against such messages, I'm
going to install a function which allows me to approve messages before
they are posted. Unfortunately, this means that there will be a delay
before your messages are posted, but it seems to be the only way to
avoid further messages of this kind.
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May 1 Many thanks to
Kathy Warren for helping me locate Lois Delander's descendants. I've
been in touch with Linda Holman and you will soon find a lot of new
information about Wilhelmina's family on the website.
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| April 29 There a new
photo under 'Unidentified photos' in the Photo Album. Does anyone
know who the couple is?
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April 24 Thanks to
Mary Wiksten in Östersund, I've found Bill Streffon's great great great
great great great grandparents (b. 1624 and 1630). Click on the blue
button under Levida Hübinette for more information.
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| April 23 Found a nice
photo of Eleanora, Levida, Beda, Jenny and Ed. See
under 'Miscellaneous photos' in the Photo Album.
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| April 17 Our family
website has moved to a new location. The new URL is www.hubinet.com/familyweb
There will be a link to the new
location at the old address for at least a couple of months.
The reason I moved the website
is that the site is getting increasingly big, and my Internet service provider has not
been very accommodating in providing more server space. Also, the new address
is much easier to remember. There will now be plenty of room for all the
hundreds of new and old photos you'll be sending me!
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| April 15 More
information on the King branch of Frank's family provided by Jacquie
Machulis. Thanks Jacquie!
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| April 7 The big family
tree (the button under the 1580-1900 tree) is now updated with the
latest information about Frank's family.
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| April 7 Lots of new
information about Frank's family, thanks to Billie Watson (Eleanor
Corrigan's daughter).
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| March 26 I've found a
lot of new information about Wilhelmina (see under 'The First Generation
of Emigrants' on the main page) in a Swedish emigration database,
in church books for the Parish of Svartvik and in the US Social Security
Death Index. Her husband's name was Per Gustav Strömbeck, and in
addition to Nora and Ester, she also had two sons who were born in
Sweden. Per Gustav emigrated in 1887, and Wilhelmina left Sweden the
following year together with her sister Selma (Ekstrom).
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March 21 Death dates
for Frank, Selma and Wilhelmina. It appears that Wilhelmina's married
name was Strombeck, not Stromberg.
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March 20 I've included
an excerpt from the 1910 US Census showing Frank Hubenet's family
(see under Frank Hubenet below).
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March 15 Lots of new
information about Selma's and Frank's families. Thanks to Ginny Higdon
and Avis Johnson (Benning) for providing me with such thorough updates!
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| March 10 In the
left-hand menu, and below the family tree further down on this page, you
will find a new tree in which I've included all members of the family
from Gustav Ulrik's, Wilhelmina's, Frank's and Selma's generation up to
the present day. Please let me know if you find any mistakes in
it.
I've also sent out a document
containing all members of the family to relatives on the eMailing list.
If you are a family member and would like to be included in this list,
please send me your e-mail address.
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March 8 I've spent several
days trying to locate Lois Delander's descendants but no luck so far.
Lois' daughters are Marcia Ann, m. to Robert Arthur Johnson, Linda
Sue, m. to Daniel Van Holman, and Diane Jean, m. to James
Know Holman. Marcia has three children,
Jeffrey Mark, Deborah
Lynn and Matthew Todd. Linda Sue has two children, Daniel
MacArthur and Heather Linda, and Diane Jean has two children, James
Adams and Hilary.
Please let me know if you have any
information about them. All I have right now is their names.
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| March 3 I've finally
found ten of Wilhelmina's present-day descendants (see under Wilhelmina
Hubenet below)! I'll contact them as soon as possible and ask for more
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February 20 More
photos of Bill Streffon's family!
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| February 17 Alan
Johnson (Selma (Hubenet) Ekstrom's grandson) has sent me additional
information about Selma's and Wilhelmina's families: Lois Delander had
two brothers, Donald and Richard, and her mother, Nora, had a sister
named Ester McFadden. Ester had two or three children. One of them was
named Dwight. Alan also gave me the names of his mother's (Ella
Ekstrom's) three brothers, Glen, Roy and Bill. If you know anything
about these relatives, please drop me a line.
You'll also find in the Photo
Album some new family photos that Bill Streffon (Levida's grandson) sent
me.
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February 14
I have added a few more dates to the
family history. The family tree now also includes Noe, who is believed
to have been the father of Aman Hubinet. He was probably born around
1580.
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February 9 The
Swedish course is now on line. Some of my beta testers have reported
problems with the sound clips. For some reason, Windows Media Player
sometimes cuts them short. I
don't know what causes this problem, there is nothing wrong
with the sound files, I've checked them several times and everything
works just fine when I run them from my own computer. Please
let me know if you encounter any such glitches. I haven't had time
to finish the word list at the end of the page, but I will add more
words in the coming weeks. I will also add more exercises.
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February 1 Links
to Swedish newspapers, Radio Sweden etc. (see the left-hand menu).
The Swedish course page will be opened in a couple of days.
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| January 20 I found
some additional information about Wilhelmina's family in two obituaries
for Eleanor (Nora) and Albion Delander in the Evanston Review.
Unfortunately, the Evanston Public Library could not find Lois or Ralph
in their obituary index, so I still haven't managed to trace any of Lois
Delander's three daughters or seven grandchildren.
If you have any information about
Wilhelmina's relatives, please
let me know. I'm running out of leads.
I've also added a link to an
online Swedish/English-English/Swedish dictionary (see the left-hand
menu).
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| January 18 New photos
in the photo album, some additional information about Ruth, Ed and
Ellen's husband Marty.
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January 16 More family
members on the 'Where do they live' map ( Michigan, Minnesota and
California).
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| January 14
A new first page. The menu is now
in the left-hand frame.
More photos
(Ed's family). Two new additions to the family: Owen John, b. 2003
(Maryka and John Tracey) and Grace, b. 2002 (Shad and Michelle
Hallihan).
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January 12 Some new
photos in the Photo Album, which is now on a another server (you can
still access it via the main menu). There is now room for many more
pictures in the album, so if you have family photos you would like to
share with the rest of the family , please send them to me!
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| January 5
Thanks to Rick and Tom Jenkins for
an update on Frank Hubenet's family!
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| January 3
1. Maps of
the USA and Sweden showing where the members of our family live. If
you're not on the map, it's because I don't have your address. If you
would like to be included in the family e-mail and mailing address list
I've made (it will only be sent to members of the family), please drop
me a line. I hope I've got the geography right! In a few cases, it was
not possible to separate the places of residence, as they are located so
close to each other (e.g. the Chigago and Los Angeles areas). Please let
me know if you find any mistakes in the US map!
2. A photo of Herbert Haddon
Hübinette.
3. There is also some new information about Edward Hubinet
(Fritz's son) and the ship he was on in WW II.
4. A new photo of Ruth Hubinette
(Back)
5. I've included a page with some genealogical
links.
6. Thanks to Richard Hubenet, I'm
now in touch with Frank's family, through Elenette Jenkins and her sons
Tom and Rick. They've promised me an update shortly.
7. I've moved the 'Unidentified
Photos' section to the Photo Album.
8. The Swedish course link is not
yet available. I'm working on a basic course
in Swedish with sound files, as I've had several e-mails about Swedish words and
phrases.
The size of
the website is now close to 9 Mb and I only have 10Mb of server space. However, my Internet provider
has promised me another 20Mb on two different servers, so I'm going to
move parts of the website to those servers shortly. This means that
there'll plenty of space for more photos.
2002
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| December 13 Richard
sent me a page from Who is Who in Joliet about Frank Hubenet (go to 'The
First
Generation of Emigrants' and press the button in the section about
Frank). Thanks Richard!
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| December 12 Richard
Hubenet has supplied additional information about Frank's family (see 'First
Generation of Emigrants').
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December 11 Found Abel
Ekstrom (Selma's husband) in a Swedish church book and in the
'Emigranten' database . It turns out he came from a place which is
situated only 10 miles from where I live. (see under 'First
Generation of Emigrants').
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December 10 Gail Riggs
sent me a newspaper article where I found the name of Nora Stromberg's
husband (Lois Delander's father). His name was Albion F. Delander and he
was a county clerk in Joliet. Thanks for the article, Gail!
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December 9 Thanks to
Lynn-Holly Johnson and Richard Hubenet for providing more information
about Selma's and Frank's families. (see under First Generation of
Emigrants).
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| December 3 New
information about Jenny and Victor's trip to Sweden in 1922 + photograph
(see under Jenny)
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December 2
Thanks to Beverly Horschler, the info on
Beda's family is now up to date.
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December 1 Thanks to
Bill Streffon for providing more information about Levida's family
(Daniel Shoop's children and grandchildren)
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November 30 Thanks
to Allan Anderson for identifying the young girl on the three photos in
the Who Are They section. She is Jane (Johnson) Hallihan, Stanley and
Genevieve's daughter.
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| November 19 A few additions to and corrections
of information regarding Gordon Hubinet's family. Thanks for the
update, Gordon! |
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November 14 A new photo in the Who Are
They section. Does anyone know who this girl/these girls is/are?
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November 13 Thanks to
Alan Johnson, there is now a lot of new information about Selma
Ekstrom-Hübinette's family (see First Generation of Emigrants)
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November 11 The
Questions page has been replaced with a Guestbook, where you can post
questions, comments etc. and reply to messages posted by others.
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| November 8 Just a few
minor additions and corrections + pictures of iron mill and chapel at
Galtström (see Brief Family History)
November 3 Two new family photos of the
Hubinets, Andersons, Larsons, Kieffers and Andersons sent to me by Bill
Streffon. See the Photo Album.
November 1 The Photo Album and the Who Are
They? sections are now available via the main menu only. I took them out
the main document to facilitate updates. More photos have been included
in the album. Thanks to Gail Riggs for
info about Eleonor's side of the family and about Wilhelmina Hubinette,
and to Lynn-Holly Johnson for info about Selma
Hubenet and her descendants.
You will find this info under 'The First Generation of Emigrants"
and under 'Eleonora Hübinette".
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| October 26 - 30
A new structure, start page, menus, more information about the 1st generation
emgrants, Boston immigration documents for the Larson family, additional
information about Jenny's and Fritz' emigration and about Frans
(Frank) Hubenet. A new map of the Swedish mills where the
Hübinettes worked. A new picture of the Teutonic.
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