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                                      Almstedt & Rudbeck Families                                                                           

FIRST GENERATION 

1.  Gerald Wayne ALMSTED was born on 8 Jun 1944 in Minneapolis, Hennipen Co., MN.  He married 11 December, 1966 in Hollis, Harmon Co., OK to Esther Lorraine HATCHER born 19 February, 1947, Hollis, Harmon Co., OK.  Issue:  Tammy Lynette, Cassondra Juliann and Daniel Wayne.  Tammy married Mark Andrew DAVIS with issue: Jeremy Daniel and Brittany Nicole.  Cassondra married Perry Lee COLLINS with issue: Emily Madison, Zachary Asher and Brooklyn Riley.  Daniel married Melissa Ann TOMES with issue: Hannah Rose. 

SECOND GENERATION 

2.  Maynard Leonard ALMSTED

3.  Lillian Augusta RUDBECK

THIRD GENERATION 

4.  Erik Gustav ALMSTEDT

5.  Hulda Olivia ERIKSDOTTER PETTERSSON

6.  Anton Maurits RUDBECK

7.  Mathilda LARSSON

For more information contact Lorraine Hatcher Almsted

Kjell Nordqvist and Anita Killström, at an annual fest in the Bjurtjärn area.
Anita is in traditional costume. 
 

Many thanks to those listed below.

• Kjell NORDVISK of Sweden, no relationship, my first and only researcher helpmate from 1990's to 2001.  He is a researcher's best friend for Swedish genealogy.

• Florence ALMSTEAD CHALMERS, of Minnesota and California, who is my husband's aunt and sister of his father.  She was so good to Jerry in his younger years and he has great fond memories of her and staying with her and his cousin in California.  She and I corresponded for several years by letters and phone calls after Jerry and I married, and she was a great help in sorting out families and information. 

• Gitte BERGENDORFF HOSTBO of Sweden, a cousin line to my husband.

• Ann-Katrin JOHANSSON, a cousin line to my husband.

• Linda WIKLAND of Sweden, a cousin line to my husband.

• Many sources from libraries, LDS, U.S. & Sweden churches, court records, immigration records, newspapers, family members, and other sources too numerous to name here.

The records in Sweden and to Ellis Island show Erik G. ALMSTEDT and family members.

I have researched or received information up to 20 plus generations on many of these lines, which have been given in entirety to Terry Almsted and Jack Almstad, first cousins of Jerry for their files.  These lines are predominately in Wisconsin, Minnesota, New York, Sweden and Germany and traced in Sweden between 1350-1723 for ALMSTEDT and into the 1300's for WIKLAND.  If you believe you belong to this line, please contact us so we can visit with you. 

Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf

Selma Lagerlöf born 1858, died 1940 was born in Östra Emterwik, Värmland, Sweden. She grew up on the family estate at Mårbacka.  She left in 1881 to attend college in Stockholm and became a teach four years later at the girls' secondary school in Landskrona.

A book intended as a primer for elementary schools became one of the most charming children's book in any language, The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, the story of a boy who shrinks and finds adventure on the back of a goose.

In 1909 she received the Nobel Laureate in Literate, the first woman to receive that award. Selma is also honored on the Swedish 20 kronor banknote. 
Selma is Jerry's seventh cousin, three times removed and their common ancestor grandfather is Sveno Laurentii.

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