The Kaski & Untiedt Family Trees

Many Versions of Bertha My great-grandmother, Tillie Anderson Morud, was the child of John Henry Anderson and Bertha Olson. Tillie told me that her mother came to the US alone from Norway and didn't speak the same dialect as her spouse and had no family in the area. Unable to communicate, living on a rural homestead, she birthed 6 children, enduring what must have been a very difficult South Dakotan farm life. For decades, I've tried to research her and trace her roots. Likely due to her lack of English skills and limited ability to read and write, each confirmed record told different versions of the same facts. The 1925 South Dakota census shows her as "Betsey" while the 1935 South Dakota census lists her as "Bertha". Other spellings are "Bertina", "Brita", and "Betsy". The U.S. Census records from 1900 to 1940 indicate that she was born sometime between 1858 and 1865. And then, there's when she immigrated to the U.S.; the ...