January 26, 2024 Reeka Larsen filed an “Application to Take Oath of Allegiance” in Long Beach, California in 1955. This application was filed to reinstate Reeka’s U.S. citizenship. She’d lost her citizenship when she married James Larsen in 1912. Reeka was born in Meeker County, Minnesota in 1885. She was a natural born American citizen, …
Online Family Trees: A Good Starting Point
January 19, 2024 Whenever I’m starting a new family history project, I begin my research with a peek at one or more of the big online family trees. By checking Family Search Family Tree and Ancestry’s Family Trees (these are just a couple that I use, there are many others), I can quickly tell how …
Grandma’s Chuckcockers
January 12, 2024 My paternal grandmother was from Norway. Some of my earliest memories are about her Scandinavian cooking. There were, of course, her famous Christmas cookies and the infamous fiskebollers which were pasty white fishballs that tasted as horrible as they looked. Then there were the chuckcockers that, until recently, I hadn’t even …