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  • Members: 101
  • Category: Maine
  • Founded: Dec 19, 2001
  • Language: English
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232 jeanbduncan Send Email Aug 29, 2008
12:50 am
http://www.cleveland.com/living/index.ssf/2008/08/the_places_you_never_knew_exis.html Great midsommar memories from Elaine and Jepson's grandson Be sure to see...
233 jeanbduncan Send Email Aug 30, 2008
1:08 am
http://ancestors.stadig.org...
234 William Duncan
maineswedish... Send Email
Sep 23, 2008
1:57 pm
235 William Duncan
maineswedish... Send Email
Oct 26, 2008
8:06 pm
236 Peter and Clare Bols...
bolster03809 Send Email
Nov 14, 2008
9:51 pm
Friends, Just a note to let you know that I won a seat in the New Hampshire State legislature last Tuesday in the General Election. What I get for that is...
237 Blanchette Family
newswede@... Send Email
Nov 14, 2008
11:01 pm
Congratulations! Debbie Blanchette ... From: Peter and Clare Bolster To: Amber Morris Sent: Friday, November 14, 2008 9:50 PM Subject: [maineswedishcolony] My...
238 jeanbduncan Send Email Dec 21, 2008
2:14 pm
Christmas Greetings From Aroostook Wednesday, December 24, 5:30pm CHANNEL 10 (MPBN) Christmastime scenes from Aroostook County, Maine, are featured. Included:...
239 William Duncan
maineswedish... Send Email
Feb 3, 2009
12:05 am
240 jeanbduncan Send Email Feb 11, 2009
3:08 am
I posted some pictures in the "Photos" section. They were sent to me from Sweden by Anders Tidstrom who was hosted by David Anderson in 1970. Please send any...
241 Marcia Swanberg
marcia_swanberg Send Email
Feb 13, 2009
3:11 pm
242 jeanbduncan Send Email Feb 13, 2009
3:58 pm
I added photos sent to by from Sweden taken in New Sweden in 1970 to my website. Please check it out and let me know any tidbits to help tell the story. Also,...
244 jeanbduncan Send Email Feb 14, 2009
7:33 pm
The most recent recipient of the Boston Post cane was Edmund F. Anderson, born in 1912. Debbie Eustis-Grandy made a presentation at the November 2008 meeting...
245 jeanbduncan Send Email Feb 18, 2009
11:10 pm
NEW at: http://jeanbduncan.wordpress.com/converstion-mathilda-anderson-and-charlotte-lenentine-melvin-1950/ Charlotte Lenentine Melvin visited New Sweden as a...
246 Paul Carlson
phenryc3@... Send Email
Feb 19, 2009
1:44 pm
Sorry Jean, I'm afraid that name was before my time in the area. Someone older should recognize it. Paul ... From: jeanbduncan To:...
247 kit kis
kitkis5 Send Email
Feb 23, 2009
9:18 pm
I found out that she was a cousin to Harold Bondeson, was married to Rob Anderson, they had no children.  After they left their farm they lived in the house...
248 jeanbduncan Send Email Feb 24, 2009
4:51 pm
Check out the history of our Danish neighbors and their parallel story to New Sweden: ...
249 Judye
sierrajkl Send Email
Feb 24, 2009
9:35 pm
Jean,  Did the Swedes who settled New Sweden and surrounding smaller communities land at the same port in New Brunswick as the the Danes, and follow the same...
250 jeanbduncan Send Email Feb 25, 2009
12:28 am
It seems that many of the immigrant groups (Swedes, Danes, Scots) took a similar route from Europe. For more about what I have found see: ...
251 kit kis
kitkis5 Send Email
Feb 25, 2009
11:29 am
    They landed in Halifax from Liverpool, across Nova Scotia, over the bay of Fundy to St. John, Canada.  down the St. John river by steamer to...
252 Judye
sierrajkl Send Email
Feb 25, 2009
5:21 pm
Thank you very much, Kathy. It was a big help. I wonder if there is a list of the names of those Swedes that landed in Halifax enroute to northern Maine. It...
253 Ray & Carolyn
carolynhilde... Send Email
Feb 25, 2009
5:38 pm
Judi, My family came over-uncles beginning with the first group, then more aunts and uncles, until 1873 when my great-great grandparents and two children came...
254 Judye
sierrajkl Send Email
Feb 25, 2009
5:58 pm
It was my maternal grandfather&#39;s dad who emigrated to the northern Maine area, possibly to Westmanland. I remember some years ago that my mother said that some...
255 Ray & Carolyn
carolynhilde... Send Email
Feb 25, 2009
6:24 pm
Lots of Andersons-I had a few up here-great Aunts married Andersons. My mother was an Anderson from Worcester, where I was born. Did your family go to...
256 Judye
sierrajkl Send Email
Feb 26, 2009
4:57 am
He eventually settled in Groton,CT in 1911. He married my grandmother in the same year in April in Springfield, MA. I found that info as to where on a website...
257 Ray and Carolyn Hilde...
carolynhilde... Send Email
Feb 26, 2009
1:54 pm
Judi, I have also been to the Family History Center in Salt Lake City-what a treasure!   You should be able to get that marriage certificate from Groton or...
258 Ray & Carolyn
carolynhilde... Send Email
Feb 27, 2009
1:15 am
Judi, In Richard Hede's blue book there is a letter from Pastor Wiren dated 1874 in which he provides statistics on each Swedish immigrant family in the New...
259 Judye
sierrajkl Send Email
Feb 27, 2009
2:18 am
Carolyn,  I have no idea whether my grandfather had any brothers or sisters at all, and he was born in 1886. It is interesting, the name Sundell. I remember ...
260 Benton Falls Family
mum2fourkids Send Email
Mar 1, 2009
11:31 pm
Clear DayHej! I find all of the information about the Swedes very interesting. My grandparents are of Swedish descent----Holmstrom, Berggren, and I am very...
261 Benton Falls Family
mum2fourkids Send Email
Mar 2, 2009
5:37 pm
Clear Day ... From: Benton Falls Family To: maineswedishcolony@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sunday, March 01, 2009 6:31 PM Subject: Hi from me in Benton Hej! I find...
262 jeanbduncan Send Email Mar 8, 2009
9:33 pm
Supper: home-made beans, Swedish meatballs, rye bread, salads, pies and brownies. Program. Tickets at the door: $7 for adults, $5 for children. Date: Friday,...
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