Swedish American Genealogist Volume 28 | Number 3 Article 4 9-1-2008 A trip of a lifetime Dee Kleinow Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/swensonsag Part of the Genealogy Commons, and the Scandinavian Studies Commons Recommended Citation Kleinow, Dee (2008) "A trip of a lifetime," Swedish American Genealogist: Vol. 28 : No. 3 , Article 4. Available at: https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/swensonsag/vol28/iss3/4 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center at Augustana Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Swedish American Genealogist by an authorized editor of Augustana Digital Commons. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. A trip of a lifetime Tracking the ancestral trails throughout Sweden makes many memories forever BY DEE KLEINOW My husband Ray and I have done a toured a little, stayed overnight, then to stay with Helmer and Maine Olofs- fair amount of traveling to different flew on to Copenhagen on the 15th. son, friends who grew up in the same places, but our trip to Sweden this We were met at the airport by my area of Slätthög, Moheda, Berg, Asa, summer tops my list of travels. cousins, Gert-Ove and Anny Nilsson, and Tjureda, as my mother’s father A number of years ago, I was giv- who drove us over the Öresunds and relatives did and have ties to en many old family photos without bridge to Sweden, and their home in southern Minnesota. With Helmer’s names. After sorting, arranging, and Höllviken, which is located in the far knowledge, we drove the back roads, researching them and putting the southwest corner, about a block in- through the village farms, and visited information into a genealogy pro- land from the sea.