Tag Archives: Marilyn Ruth Lambie Tercek

Back to Galesburg

By Mark | March 25, 2019

The response to yesterday’s post about my familial connection to the Swedish expatriate community of Galesburg was so overwhelmingly positive that I thought I’d spend a little more time in the archives this evening and share a few more facts about my immigrant family’s past in Illinois. First, I should correct something that I said […]

Posted in History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1870, 1891, 1897, Anna Gustafa Nilsson, CB&Q, Chicago, Chicago Burlington and Quincy Railroad, coffee, Dahlsland, Dorothy Maxine Lambie Avery, eels, Galesburg, Galesburg railroad museum, genealogy, geneology, Hump, hump yard, immigration, Johann August Jakobsson, John Lambie, Leif Jakobsson, Mark's ancestors, Mimi Dorothy, Öland, Ovra Wannborga, railroad, strikes, Sweden, trains, Violet Jacobson Lambie, Zephyr | 6 Comments

The Swedes of Galesburg

By Mark | March 24, 2019

Earlier this evening, I was thinking about my grandmother who passed away this last May, and I decided to scroll back through the photos I’d taken the last time I was with her. Well, there among all of the photos I’d taken of her and Clementine, was this one of the telegram that she’d sent […]

Posted in History, Mark's Life, Uncategorized | Also tagged 1944, 1949 census, Anna Jacobson, Army, Arthur Robert Avery, Atlanta, August Jacobson, Beardstown, census, census data, Dorothy Avery, Dorothy Maxine Lambie Avery, Galesburg, genealogy, Great Depression, Illinois, immigration, John Lambie, Mark's ancestors, marriage, Mimi Dorothy, Pearl Harbor, Robert Avery, Sweden, swell, telegrams, Violet Jacobson Lambie, WWII | 6 Comments

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