The Lars and Ruth Jensen Family

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Small and ordinary packages include great surprises...

A stuffed Greyhound envelope from my Great-Grandmother Ruth was full of fairly ordinary things:

doctor receipts

and doctor appointment cards,

bus receipts

and post office box information

(good thing the combination is included).

Ruth had the clocks fixed

and saved receipts from Sears, Roebuck, and Co.

Evidence of the numerous packages shipped numbered 39....

including one heading off to Gryt Sweden.

All interesting.

All a bit ordinary.

But then I found this, folded up into a tiny little square:

Garfield Norby

Sept. 7, 1896

Aug. 13, 1965

David Norby

Oct. 26, 1891

Feb. 22, 1952

Christina Norby

Oct. 24, 1863

Sept. 28, 1944

Peter Norby

July 13, 1858

Dec. 27, 1897

Lars P. Jensen

1884-1969

Dora Jensen

1880-1970

I guess this means I have to open everything...

Family Record: The Jensen Tree

Char (Charlotte/Lottie)

Mother's Father: Lars
Mother's Mother: Ruth

Mother's Grandfather: Ole Jensen

Mother's Grandmother: Marie Christine

Mother's Grandfather: Peter

Mother's Grandmother: Christ (Christine)

Mother's Great-Grandfather: Zacharias
(Connected to Peter)

Mother's Parents

Name: Lars

Name of Spouse: Ruth

Children

Elin

Mari (Marie)

Lottie

Betty

Mart (Martin)

Mother's Paternal Grandparents

Name: Ole Jensen
Name of Spouse: Marie Larsen

Date of Marriage: Not married to Ole Jensen. Later married Anton Paulsen.

Children
Lars       father Ole
Maranus (Magnus?)
Paula
Holgar

Mother's Maternal Grandparents

Name: Zacharias

Name of Spouse: Christine

Children

Peter

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Family Record: The Tacoma Johnsons

This little brown book at first glance appears empty. My grandmother used light light pencil throughout and wrote with incomplete names. Perhaps she didn't want to make a mistake and planned to come back later to fill in the spaces.

The book has 56 pages, but only a few are completed.

Our Family

Name of Father: R.N.  (Robert Nathan)

Name of Mother: Char (Charlotte/Lottie)

Children

Rox (Roxanne)

Min (Minne/Melody)

Jill 

Mark

Jacqu  (Jacque)