25 Dec 2010

Great! Great grandkids growing up!





Busy up here, celebrations going on, birthday times you know!

But being busy is no excuse when great grandkids let me know they like to be part of my blog. So here you are, the sons and daughters of my youngest grandkids Hulda and Caleb:

To the left, Hulda's daughter Lu
and her grandson Clint.

To the right, Hulda's daughter Lu's
granddaughter Sarah.



And finally, below, Caleb's son and daughter and their families in Sweden:


May the joy of the season make every moment special - Merry Christmas to my readers!

Remaining yours faithfully Goran Danielsson.

17 Nov 2010

Hulda and Caleb, my daughter Maria's youngest.


Hi down there,

To start with today, a picture of my youngest grandkids. The youngest of them, Caleb and Hulda, were born in 1901 and 1903. As I told you earlier, Hulda left for America in 1923 when she was 20 years old to join her older sisters and brothers. In April 1921, this picture below was taken. From left to right in the back row, Ruth and Hulda. From to left to right in front, Hanna and Caleb. Ruth, Hanna and Caleb stayed in Sweden.



Johansson Children ca April 1921
Back row L-R Ruth , Hulda Front L-R Hanna, Caleb.

Caleb was born in Bolmaryd Norregård in Nöttja 24th of July 1901. He was left in a crib with bars at the photographers, being not more than a couple of years old which he doesn't seem very happy about.




























Caleb's career started with work on roads, peat mosses and saw mills. He worked with an axe in ground frost and was struck with TB on his lungs. He became a farmer in his thirtees when he rented land together with his brother Simon at a place called Södra Vare in the near of Alvesta. Thereafter he rented another farm on his own inHällorna in the parish of Hamneda and finally bought himself a farm in Hovdinge where his mother Maria was born. Maria and her husband Carl Petter Johansson stood surety for a friend with their own home. It ended with bankruptcy and Caleb therefore bought his parents a new home, called the home of peace - Fridhem. It was situated in Ryssby, east of Ljungby.

In Hovdinge Caleb started farming in 1946 with the help of his sister Hanna before he met his Agnes Rydh. She became his wife in 1951.


Caleb and Agnes raised a family and called their children Britt-Marie, born in 1953 and Key-Göran, born in 1955.


Warm greetings from my heavenly place,
yours sincerely

Goran Danielsson.

My daughter Maria's children


Dear ones,

Keeping track of my great grandkids is a huge task even if they are no longer running along but are maturing both in body and mind. I guess that one of the youngest of them all is the husband of my secretary. He is 55 years of age and still busy farming parts of his ancestor's land. Happily, judged by this picture below. His father Caleb, the youngest son of my daughter Maria was also farming the same land and is seen on the picture above.





And who knows what lies ahead. The fifth generation is still too young to take over:




My secretary is busy studying old documents which was found in a secret compartment of a chest of drawers. It was contracts of sale and estate inventories from the village of Hovdinge, dated back as far as 1837. On one of the documents the judge of the village, "häradsdomaren", had signed his name. And guess who that was!?! His name was Daniel Olofsson and he was my father, born in 1793, in Göteryd, Sweden. Here is his signature from the document:


Warm blessings from above,

Goran Danielsson.


23 Oct 2010

Time for the now living...

Dear relatives,

As your heavenly father, i e your great grandfather in heaven, I would like to move on to those of you who are still here on earth. My secretary is waching over you now living with loving care and insists that only first names are published and no pictures without permission.







To sum up this story about my life and my kids I will begin with the youngest of my great grandkids.


Therefore, may I again present Hulda who was born in 1903 in Angelstad in the south area of Sweden called Småland. When she was 20 years old in 1923 she went to Rockford, Illinois from her home in Ryssby, Sweden, never to see her parents again. My secretary found this information about Carlsson, Hulda Debora in a database called Emihamn.

As you can see on the photo above Hulda married Hjalmar Johnson 6th July 1929 and raised a family in Rockford, Illinois. They had three kids, Robert (born 1930), Richard (born 1933) and Lucille (born 1936). In the Summer of 1964 Hulda went back to visit her brother Caleb in Sweden. Hulda's daughter Lu continued to write to her uncle and family in Sweden just like her mother before her. Thanks to her they are still in touch. I must admit that I as a great grandfather therefore tend to have some favourites, sinning is still possible up here I am afraid.

In 1985 Hulda's daughter Lu and her husband Harland came from Wisconsin to Hovdinge with Lu's nephew Peter. In 1990 Peter's father Dick came from Rockford, Illinois, to see his relatives. Cousins from Sweden repaid the visit, for example in 2004 when this picture is taken in Florida:



If anyone of you descendants of Hulda, like Stephen and Peter, Mary Vera and Margaret, Pierce, Skip and Brian, Dallas, Gray and Nick or Sarah and Clint would not mind to take part with a photo, please connect with my secretary at goran.danielsson@ljungby.nu

Finally a greeting in Swedish from my beloved descendant who still remembers his mother's tongue!

God bless, with love Goran Danielsson.

22 Oct 2010

Dead or alive?!


Yeah, relief! Finally in touch again! What a trauma! I am still dead as you know, but heavenly active.

Without connection to that woman on earth, my secretary, I could have written a national encyclopedia without you noticing it! She mixed the codes up. But with the help of my beloved great grand son Boyd she sorted it out. So there might be some new stories coming. She is not sure. But I am.
The picture above is from september 2010. My great granddaughter Jeanne and her husband came all the way across the ocean to visit my secretary. Behind the family is Bruno, the moose known from a film.

Your heavenly great ancestor Goran Danielson