The Kaski & Untiedt Family Trees

Organizing photos and I'm not 100% sure I know who is in these pictures which I believe all come from the Morud side of the family. Can you please help?  Update: Thanks Karen Roeman for responding with the answers. Reply in the comments, or send me a message in Facebook, or email me at msonewaybaja@aol.com. ******************************************************************************** Picture #1: Cousins. This was taken at my Grandma Delores funeral.  I have my own guesses on every one, but I'd prefer some validation. { Picture #2: Cousins + aunt + uncle. This was also taken at my Grandma Delores funeral.  [Update: Thanks Karen!] Picture #3: Arlene Morud Bertrand's wedding [Update: all persons named thanks to Terri Peterson!] Picture #4: Rozie's wedding, pic2 I labeled this picture as Berger and Tillie with the bride and groom, but I'm second guessing myself. Is that correct? [Update: not correct. This is Arlene Bertrand's wedding with Tillie & Berger]. P...

The below image shows when each of my ancestors immigrated to the United States.  3 generations ago, 4 of my great-grandparents made the journey across the sea coming from Finland (1903), Norway (1916), and Germany (1882 and 1895). One from each branch of my tree. 4 generations prior was the mass migration that formed my American family tree branches. On my paternal line, ancestors came from Scandinavia (1874 Sweden, 1872 Finland, and 1866 & 1889 Norway). From my maternal line, they all came from Germany (1867, 1875 and 1884). My earliest US ancestors came 5 generations before me and were my Ahrendt 2x great-grandparents, who traveled to New York together in 1855 from Germany. 

 Here's my weird family history find for today. My sister-in-law’s, Jen Kaski, 2 times paternal great-grandparents are Reverend George Washington Grabe and Margaret "Maggie" Dial. They were married in Randolph, Illinois.  Watching an ancestry show, Who Do You Think You Are? where the singer Melissa Etheridge traced her roots. While watching she traced her roots to Randolph, Illinois as well. It turns out that Randolph used to be a major trading hub for New France (Quebec). It was the first state capital of Illinois after statehood.  And here's the most fascinating part, Randolph was originally called KasKaskiA. Ok, so if your mind isn’t blown, mine is. Since Kaski is my maiden name, I know how uncommon it is, even as part of another word. You see lots of words with “ski” or some with “aski” but few with “Kaski”.  While my maiden name, Kaski, came from the name of a farm in Finland, the town name KasKaskiA was the name of the local Native American tribe that lived in ...

The document that is shared below is an excerpt from the 1910 book An Illustrated History of Jackson County, Minnesota . It's rare to find such treasures, and for all those Untiedt's or Schwager's that come across this, I hope the archiving and sharing of this also brings you joy!  Jurgen Schwager is my 2nd great-grandfather. Here's a brief tree to help understand the connection. A young picture of Jurgen was posted here  in this link to a prior post. 

 I thought this was cool. It's a 1944 Sioux Falls, South Dakota phonebook page that lists both my great-grandmother Alvina Kaski, and my grandfather, Elroy Kaski. As the youngest child in the family, all his other siblings had fled the nest by 1944, and my grandfather was wrapping up high school.

Some more Draft Registration cards: these are for my great grandfather, John Bernard Mann. WWII WWI Below is also his WWI draft registration card.

 I found this treasure related to my grandfather. It's his WWII Draft Registration card.