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Treasure Chest Thursday: Norwegian Bible

August 26, 2010 Filed in Heirlooms,Melhus,Norwegian Genealogy,Treasure Chest ThursdayTags: 3 comments

This is the Bible that my great-grandmother, Patricia Matilda Melhus Sanchez brought with her when she immigrated to the U.S. from Norway in the 1880′s.   It has her name and “Franklin, Minnesota” written on the first page.  It also has her brother Palmer’s name written in the back (looks like it was written by a child in cursive).

It is now in the possession of my mother and I took some pictures of it while visiting this August.

As you can see, it is starting to come apart in a few places, but for being over 100 years old, it’s in pretty good shape.

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Øystein Ellingsen - October 25, 2011 - 10:45 am

That’s a hymnal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnus_Brostrup_Landstad

Jen - October 25, 2011 - 11:33 am

Thanks so much for your help!! I just assumed that it was a Bible. :)

Jana Last - July 16, 2012 - 4:53 pm

What an amazing family heirloom! Because I have Norwegian ancestry, this is especially interesting to me. Thanks for sharing!

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Treasure Chest Thursday: Flower Girl Dress

August 19, 2010 Filed in Treasure Chest Thursday2 comments

When my mom was six, she was a flower girl in her cousin’s wedding.  Her Aunt Elvy made the dress she wore.

While I was home visiting, I had her pull it out of the cedar chest so that I could take a picture.

My mom is on the right.:)I think that it is so special that she has kept the dress all of these years (the wedding was 50 years ago!!):)

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Shaz - August 19, 2010 - 11:54 am

Was your mother’s Aunt Elvy Swedish by any chance? My m-i-l name was Elvey and I’ve never run into any other. She was 100% Swedish, born in USA.

Jen - August 19, 2010 - 12:57 pm

Yes, she was 100% Swedish and immigrated with her parents when she was very young. I don’t think I’ve heard anyone with that name either!

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Scanning Slides

August 19, 2010 Filed in Techno-Genealogy1 comment

When I was a kid, slides were big.  And apparently cheaper than prints.

My mom liked to take pictures, but didn’t always have the extra money to have them printed out.

And now she has stacks and stacks of slide carousels.  And the slide projector hasn’t worked in years.

The pictures haven’t been seen in ages.  I can’t even remember the last time we rolled down the screen and sat and looked at the slides.

But I want to change that.

I am planning on purchasing a slide scanner so that I can recover some of the missing years of photos from my childhood.

Who knows what memories will be revived?  Or what embarrassing pictures could be unearthed?I’m so excited about what I might find.

So, I’m looking for suggestions.  Have any of you bought one of these before?  What were the results?  Is there a certain brand that I should stay away from?  Which one works the best (and is still reasonably priced)?

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Jo - August 21, 2010 - 4:26 pm

Jen, I used to have an old portable Canon which came with a plastic gadget that you could load slides into – I didn’t have any slides, so I never used it, and that was years ago. Things have come such a long way since, and prices have come down so much that I would think you could get a decent budget multi-purpose scanner for not too much $$$

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