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| Margareta birthplace |
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| Margareta birthplace |
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| Lisbeth, Doug, Berit |
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| Lisbeth & Doug by original foundation |
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| Overlooking Lake Rogsjon |
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| Museum grounds overlooking Bjursas |
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| Museum grounds Maypole |
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| top Maine, Bertil, Lars / bottom Norene, Berit, Vanja, Leif |
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| Rexbo |
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| Rexbo |
Hi, this is Doug Lundwall I'm adding a post of our recent trip to Sweden (Norene and Doug) and the day we spent in Bjursas, the Lundwall ancestral area. We were invited to lunch and a lovely afternoon with relatives there. We went to Bertil and Berit's home in Bjursas, had a excellent lunch, their daughter Lisbeth joined us after that and they all took us on a family tour.. We went to the birthplace of Margareta (Great Grandmother, wife of Andrew) house is still standing, and there is still remnants of a foundation from the first dwelling that was built there. We visited their cottage on Lake Rogsjon (didn't get pictures, memory chip ran out of space and didn't have another one on my person) and then took a drive to a lookout overlooking the lake and surrounding area. Went to a local museum after that and met Leif, relative, there. He volunteers some of his time there. After that we went back to their home to have coffee and desert and meet more relatives. All of our relatives were very gracious and kind, we had a very nice time. Norene and I, with Berit, went to visit her mother Ester, who turned 100 in June, in a nursing home. She was very alert and remembered us from when she visited America in the 1970's... She is the last living member of that group that was here... It was a nice visit and one I will remember. On our way back to where we were staying, Norene and I stopped in Rexbo, village where Andrew came from, to take a few pictures there...
Relatives in the photo's are, top row: Maine, Bertil, Lars. Bottom row: Berit, Vanja, Leif.
At the old house are Lisbeth and Berit.
Thank you so much for sharing these with us, Doug! It's wonderful seeing photos of where our great-grandparents lived and emmigrated from in Sweden back in the 1880's. I for one would love to have you post more of your Swedish photos. They are quite wonderful!
ReplyDeleteI still have more vintage photos to share from Davey, Marlin and Kenneth's photos in the next couple of months. I put everything away several weeks ago and will soon bring them back out to do some more scanning.
If any of you have anything you would like to share with the rest of us, we would be happy to post it!