It's Saturday Night -
Time For More Genealogy Fun!
Our mission from Randy Seaver of Genea-Musings is to:
1) Which family surname line (of identified ancestors) of yours stayed the longest in one U.S. state or other country, province/shire since, say, 1600?
* List the generations for one or two of your long-staying-in-one-locality surname lines. (Yes, I know that some countries used patronymics - follow the father's line back in time).
* Tell us about it in your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or in a Facebook post.
Here's mine:
My husband’s great-grandfather, Nils Malkom Nilsen, born
Nils Malkom Jonasson, paternal ancestors go back five generations in Jonkoping,
Sweden. Nils (1865-1937) is the immigrant.
- father Jonas Nilsson (1839-1915)
- grandfather Nils Jonasson (1808-1869)
- great-grandfather Jonas Nilsson (1769-1834)
- 2x-great-grandfather Nils Jonsson (1733-1782)
- 3x-great-grandfather Jon Nilsson (1667-1752)
In my family, there has been too much migration across the
southern states for anyone on my maternal side to be in one place more than a
generation or two. However, my great-grandfather, Johann Anton Hork (1843-1906)
immigrated from Westphalia and I researched back four generations of his
ancestors.
- father Joseph Heinrich Horoch (1804-1857)
- grandfather Johann Horoch (1773-1826)
- great-grandmother Dorothea Voss (1755-1800)
- 2x-great-grandfather Johann Heinrich Voss (?)
Your Swedish family goes back so far in Jonkoping. My Swedes not only moved every generation, but each generation moved several times from town to town all over Malmohus County.
ReplyDeleteOh, wow, that's challenging. I was glad they stayed put. It was easier to find them when I was first starting out and couldn't quite read or understand the Swedish HHE.
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