The Kaski & Untiedt Family Trees

 I found this note in my family history records.  "My great-grandmother, Tilla Morud, told me that Betsy [her mother] came to the US by herself, to marry a man she had never met.  They both didn't speak the same language and she felt very lonely.  She would cry and cry for her homeland."  *************************** What must 1880s Norwegian life have felt like to compel a young woman to travel across the seas to a foreign land all alone to marry a stranger?  When my great-grandmother told me this story, I could feel Betsy's lonely sadness living out in the Deuel, South Dakota prairie, hanging laundry, surviving the bitter cold, bearing 6 children out-of-duty.  What areas of Norway did she and he come from such that they did not speak the same language? Betsy lived in the US for 30 years before records show that she learned to speak English.  How did they communicate? I shiver imaging the mental isolation she must have endured.  Such an enorm...

After about 35 years of working on this Family Tree project, I hit 7,000 people in my Database today!

Today, I officially attached my 3,000th record to my family tree database. That's a lot of research over the years, especially the last two years where I've been working on the database almost nightly. It's quite a work of diligence and investigation. Each record is thoroughly compared to the information I already know; when it's correct, I take each fact (name, birthplace, etc.) and add them one-by-one, attaching citations and notes to ensure I can trace back to exactly where the data came from. It's been a labour of history and one that I truly hope someone in the future will appreciate.

  The National Archives keeps a record of each U.S. Postmaster's Appointment. The below record shows Paul C.S. Untiedt, Sr.'s (my great-grandfather) 1899 appointment as Postmaster for Kanaranzi, Minnesota; this legacy then led to the future appointment of two of his daughters, Harriet & Marcella (also included in the document below). Additionally, the following document shows Postmaster's Appointment for  Luverne, Minnesota  where Paul Sr.'s grandson, Wayne Untiedt took charge in 1965. A long history of ensuring "n either snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds". I'm certain all would be baffled to learn that one of Paul's descendants was absolutely fascinated this week to learn about the "envelope" and it's amazing "self-sticking technology" after becoming moist. And I'm sure that same descendant would befuddle them with the speed and nuisances o...

Reposted from the Maurud Family History Facebook post of 12/1/2023. https://www.facebook.com/share/zPxP3wRtPgyrCaFM/?mibextid=PkCAf5 On this day, December 1, in 1910, the Maurud family still resided in Norway. Attached is the 12/1/1910 Norway Census. Note that the father's name is listed as Maurud, which was the farm name where they resided; but the children were listed as the sons' of Ole, or Olson.

 In 1865, Ole Peter Hansen, great-grandfather of Berger Morud, lived in Ringsaker, Norway. This December 1865 Census report captures that moment in time (see last four rows) when he lived with his wife, Anne Hansdatter, and two of his children, Andreas and Nekoline. Berger’s grandfather, Hans Olsen, was already 30 and living on his own on the Enger farm in Ringsaker.  Notice the Norwegian naming convention of the time, where each child’s surname is their father’s first name followed by either “sen” (son) or “datter” (daughter). Thus, Hans Olsen was the son of Ole Peter and had the surname “Olsen”. It would Hans Olsen’s son, Ole, who was born five years earlier on the Maurud farm in Ringsaker, which gave us that family name. Reposted from our Facebook Group 12/21/2023 post.  https://www.facebook.com/share/zPxP3wRtPgyrCaFM/?mibextid=PkCAf5

 In case some of the readers haven't been on Ancestry, thought I'd post this 1920 US Census that shows all the surviving children of Paul Christian Sophius Untiedt Sr. and Emma Anna Schwager. It also shows Paul's father, Henry Untiedt, with Henry's second wife, Catherine. Right click on the document below to save a copy to your personal records and to zoom in closer.