Motivation Monday - My goals for July

I had four genealogy goals for June:

1) Register remaining headstones for Kropp Cemetery at  http://www.genealogi.se/gravproj/Gravsoklist.php
Done!

2) Write minimum two blogposts a week, at least one about my Verno-line and one about my Seck-line.
Done!

3) Order a DNA test.
Done!

4) Order muster rolls for Andrew Richardson from the Wisconsin Veteran Museum.
Not done.

So, July, here are my genealogy goals:

1. Order muster rolls for Andrew Richardson from the Wisconsin Veteran Museum. (15 minutes)
2. Do the DNA test. (15 minutes)
3. Write minimum three blogposts a week. (+ research about 20 hours work).
4. Spend at least 5 hours to organize my digital documents.
5. Register headstones at Fleninge Cemetery at http://www.genealogi.se/gravproj/Gravsoklist.php

There.

Ready.

Steady.

Go!

Unidentified. Probably in Farstorp area, south of Sweden

Motivation Monday - My goals for June

Usually for my genealogy and family history research I have no motivation problems.. it is all the other things that needs to be done.. fixing in the garden, clean up the house, grocery shopping, doing laundry and of course work - nah,  just kidding, I have a bit of a hard time to focus on research if the house is a mess...

But for June I am going to try something different, I am going to put up some goals. I usually take a look at the trees Im researching and then pick something I find interesting. Or if I am bored with my own research I pick a headstone and try to find out as much as possible or try to help someone with questions on some genealogy forum.

So, June, here are my goals:

1) Register the remaining headstones at http://www.genealogi.se/gravproj/Gravsoklist.php for Kropp cemetery. I signed up as a volunteer to do this and I have done a lot but now I feel I need to finish it.
Deadline: June 16 (probably 5 hours of work)

2) Write minimum two blogposts a week. At least one should be about my Verno-side of the family and at least one about my Seck-side. Those are the sides of the family where I don't have a lot of information and I need to focus. My Seck and Verno side are right now (four generations back) in Estonia and Russia.
Deadline: June 30 (probably 20 hours of work, including research)

3) Order a DNA test. I am so curious about the possibility to get a DNA test for genealogy purposes. I understand the basics but as soon as I try to get a deeper understanding I give up. I am thinking that if I get a test done it will be easier to understand if I have the real result, letters and numbers infront of me.
Deadline: June 30 (30 minutes of work)

4) I also need to finally get the muster rolls of Andrew Richardson from the Wisconsin Veterans Museum. Andrew Richardson was my great granduncle who emigrated from Sweden to the US and for some reason ended up in the Spanish-American war.
Deadline: June 30 (15 minutes of work)

Those things are what needs to be done. Besides that, as much research as I feel like :) :)

Somehow connected to my family.. don't know who, where or when

Anna Lindholm from Kropp, Sweden, emigrates in 1893 to USA

One of my favorite records on Ancestry is the US Passport Applications. You can get a lot of information about a person looking at those records. Birthdate and birthplace, if the person is an immigrant you can find the year of immigration, what ship they came on, how long they have been a US citizen. Color of eyes and hair. A description of the nose, the mouth and chin. Length. And if you are lucky, there is a photo.

Just for fun, I did a search on people born in Kropp, Sweden and I came up with a couple of matches. I picked one of them, Anna Lindholm, born in Kropp January 26 in 1858. In 1919 she has been in the US for 26 years, she and her husband lives in Webster, Wisconsin and she is a house keeper. She is going to Sweden to visit relatives.

She is 61 years old and she got blue eyes.

Anna was born in 1858, so I looked into the house exam roll for 1858 - 1860 from Kropp. There she is at Holk nr 4. Her father was Per Svensson, b 1829 and her mother Elna Andersdotter born in 1833. In this book she has three siblings, two older brothers, Nils born in 1854 and Sven born in 1856. She also had a little sister, Hanna, born 1859 but she died in 1860.

Anna with parents and siblings 1858 - 1860
Kropp AII 13 1858 - 1860 page 60

A couple of years later, in 1871 - 1875, the family has grown, now it is Per and Elna, the children Nils, Sven Anna, Anders (b 1861), Petronella (b 1863), Hanna (b 1865), Jöns (b 1867), Johannes (b 1870), Peter (b 1872) and Gustaf (b 1874).

Anna and her family in 1871 - 1875
Kropp AI:16 1871 - 1875 page 92

 According to the passport Anna emigrated in 1893. I did a lookup at the database Emibas and it says she, her husband Nils Lindholm, a preacher and thier son, Carl Oskar Emanuel Nilsson Lindholm emigrated to the US from Hybo, Ljusdal. For some reason I cant find them in the Ljusdal churckbook, but I found Carl Oskar Emanuel in the birthbook, with the note of unbaptized..

Carl Oskar Emanuel with his parents and the note "odöpt" (unbaptized)
Ljusdal CI:9 page 167

Looking into the US census of 1910 I find the family in Meenon township, Burnett, Wisconsin: N A Lindholm, with wife Annie and son Chas O E all from Sweden, immigrated in 1893. Then there is a daughter Ruth A (age 16) born in South Dakota, a son Joseph P (age 14) born in Minnesota, a son Enoch G (age 13) born in Iowa and a daughter Annie E (age 11) born in Minnesota.

US Census 1910, Meenon, Burnett, Wisconsin

Below is a picture of the church in Kropp.

Church in Kropp