Wordless Wednesday - Unknown Nilson / Olson

I bought an old photo album in 2009. I don't know the persons in the album and they are not identified. Most photos are from the photographers in the southern part of Sweden like Landskrona and Helsingborg. The album is not in great shape and I am not sure if it is the original photos or someone just took an album and put random photos in it.

Anyway, there is a photo taken at Geo F Riel at 339 W Madison Street in Chicago.

On the back it is written

Kusin

N P Nilson

Minne från P Olson.

Translated:

Cousin

N P Nilson

Memory from P Olson.

Military Monday - Karl Spangenberg, 1928 - 1944, age 15

At Pålsjö Cemetery in Helsingborg, Sweden there is a area where soldiers from the WW are buried. There is one part where German soldiers are buried. Among the headstones Karl Spangenberg is found. He was born in 1928 and died only a couple of weeks before turning sixteen in 1944. You could also find a couple of stones where the soldier is unknown, or as the inscription says : Ein unbekannters Deutcher Soldat. I was at the cemetery today, adding it to Billiongraves.com. The weather was not optimal for headstone photography but I wanted to upload at least a few graves to start with.

Wilhelm Kunze 1915 - 1940
Karl Spangenberg 1928 - 1944

Georg Mannes 1909 - 1945
Ein unbekannter Deutcher Soldat

One area is called Commonwealth and here are Brittish, Canadian and Australian soldiers buried.

Commonwealth 

Commonweath plot

D A MacDonald, died August 30, 1944, age 23

What I love about billiongraves is the possiblity to geotag the photos so that you really know where the headstone is. I took and uploades 36 photos today and on the map you can really tell where in this cemetery you will find those headstones.

Other links:
Pictures of headstones and transcription of the inscriptions  http://www.hembygdshistoria.se/palsjo/index-e.htm
Pålsjö Cemetery at Find a greve : http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GScid=1984447

Sibling Saturday - Part 4 Pavel Verno

The Verno siblings are my great-grandaunts (Helena, Valentina, Maria), uncles (Voldomar, Pavel) and my great-grandmother Julia. Thier parents were August Verno and Anna Lindeberg (spelling?) My grandmother was born in Estonia but the generation before her seems to come from a part that today belongs to Russia. I don't know very much about that part of the family and that makes it so much more interesting. Also, mainly all information is in Estonian and Russian, two languages I don't know and that ofcourse makes it a little (well, much to be honest) harder to find information and takes a lot more time. On the other hand, great pleasure everytime a tiny bit in the puzzle is solved.

The sibling I know the least about is Pavel Verno. I don't know when he was born, if he was married or when he died. He is a white spot on my Vernomap. He might have been born i Pskov / Pihkva /Pleskau / Pleskava / Psków (same place many names in different languages)

Pavel Verno

Verno Siblings

Verno siblings:
Part 1 - Sonja Verno (Oeberg)
Part 2 - Maria Verno (Belinski)
Part 3 - Valentina Verno (Kiljar)


Free silhouetteclipart found at  http://www.arthursclipart.org/silhouettes/silhouettes.htm

Follow Friday - Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family

I have ancestors from Estonia and possible Russia. I have been looking for resources for a couple of weeks about Russian genealogy and yesterday I found a really nice blog.

Its called Find Lost Russian & Ukrainian Family - Uncovering the secrets of finding family and records in the former USSR. Well, it couldn't be more spot on, exactly what I was looking for. Since I only found it yesterday I have many blogposts ahead of me to read and many links to explore and much to learn. Super exciting!

http://lostrussianfamily.wordpress.com

Wednesday Wedding - Paas

This is a photo that belonged to my grandmother. The woman in the photo has the surname Paas. That is all I know. Probably taken in Estonia.

Paas

Workday Wednesday - Great grandfather Bengt Jönsson

This in my great grandfather Bengt Jönsson (1870 - 1961) working with his horses in the woods.

Talented Tuesday - Louise Brooks

It was 1991. I had moved away from home to study computer science, a new city, living in a dorm. OMD had released thier album Sugar Tax. It was the first CD I ever bought, CDs were pretty new at the time and I had that particular album on repeat. One of my favorite songs on that album was Pandoras Box and I was a happy girl every time MTV decided to show the music video. Loved that video and that was when I first heard of Lousie Brooks. Back then it was hard to find out any information on her. Today there are plenty hits on her at Google and lots of pictures. And YouTube.

Well, anyhow, I was looking at U. S. Passport Applications at ancestry.com the other day. I did a search on Louise Brooks and I found her. Occupation: Actress. She applied for a passport in 1924, age 18. She was going to France and England to visit relatives and travel.

Louise Brooks at Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louise_Brooks