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Mystery Monday: The 1944 job application
As part of my 2016 resolution to organize my small mountain of genealogy records once and for all, I am in the process of transcribing and analyzing all documents I have collected over the years. Yesterday, I worked on an interesting document I discovered only a few months ago. The document is a job application and comes from the personnel files of the Northern Pacific Railway Company. Apparently, my father applied for a job as a “yard clerk” on May 13, 1944 – when he was a junior in high school and only 17 years old. Continue reading
A double mystery: Brita’s maiden name and her son Johan
The story my father told me so long ago about his grandparents Andrew and Brita Dalin left me with two mysteries – well, at least two. The first is the mystery of Brita’s maiden name. I remember my father saying, “Well, it was something like Anderson or Johnson – I think.” In all my years of research, I’ve managed to narrow it down (if you can call it that) to either: Continue reading
Andrew’s Intention to Become a U.S. Citizen
I know so very little about my Swedish great grandfather Andrew Dalin. And most of what I do know comes from the document below – a “Declaration of Intention” signed by him on January 23, 1918 Continue reading