Update Log

Update Log

February 5, 2007

I promised long periods of neglect and I guess I'm delivering on that promise. There has been a gread deal I need to put up on this site. For now I'll just post a photograph that Marie got from Earl Sherman on Mercer Island outside Seattle. It is a picture of Earl Anderson, his wife Elsie and Bobbie (Elsie's son from a previous marriage. Undated.

October 10, 2004

At the family reunion in Sörbyn we took a couple of large group photos. I thought the only way to indicate who was who in the pictures was with a map. I have one of the photos and a map of who is who. Eventually I'll get the other one done as well.

I got scans of some pictures of Dell (Leeman) Libby and her family. Dell was the older sister of Laura (Leeman) Anderson.

• A photograph of Charles Libby, oldest son of Dell and Frank Libby.  Date and location unknown.
• A photograph of Dell and Frank Libby. Date and location unknown.
• A photograph of Dell, Roland (their younger son) and Frank Libby. In front of their house in Monson, date unknown.

August 1, 2004

Marie has sent me some scans of photographs and a postcard showing August Anderson (son of Anders Stahre) and some of his family.

• A photograph Labled "Our Cottage" showing August Anderson's children Lydia and Earl. Date and location unknown.
• A photograph of Ruth Månson and August Anderson probably taken in 1911 in Seattle.
• A postcard From Ruth Månson to Egon Broman in 1911 showing Ruth Månson and Lydia Anderson.

July 28, 2004

While visiting in Sweden, Berit Sundström and Bengt Selberg showed us pictures of their grandmother Maria Albertina (Lars Olof Anderson's daughter) and her family. I took pictures of the pictures and have uploaded them here.

• An image and description of the house Maria lived in after she married.
• A photograph of Maria Albertina and her family, date unknown.
• A photograph of a gathering including Maria Albertina and her family, date unknown.
• A photograph of Maria Albertina 2 years before her death.
• A photograph of the deed when the property was transferred to Klas and Maria from Klas's parents.
• A photograph of Helga daughter of Maria, date unknown.
• A photograph of Wilhelm son of Maria, 1972.

July 27, 2004

I got some better dates from Milton and Flora Anderson for the pictures of Raymond and Barbara Anderson and updated the captions.
I got a copy of a picture of John Everett Anderson and his family from around 1928.

July 25, 2004

The trip to Sweden was wonderful and I have a number of new images to add to the web site. I'm working on getting myself out from under the backlog of work that piled up here, so it may take a little while before I get them all posted. When I got home, I found some pictures of Raymond Anderson and Barbara Anderson waiting for me. I have to get the originals back to Barbara, so I've scanned them in here. First there are four pictures of Raymond Anderson (1, 2, 3, and 4) and seconds three pictures of Raymond and Barbara Anderson 1, 2, and 3).

July 17, 2004

We have been in Sörbyn and people have been asking us about where we come from so I've added a link to a web page with some maps and pictures. And to make it easier for people who wanted copies of the Pictures we have from the reunion, here is a link

June 26, 2004

Updated phpGedView to 3.00 and enabled registration requests. Entered some more data into Gramps and exported it to phpGedView. Mostly children and grandchildren of Ramond Victor Anderson and grandchildren of Milton Leroy Anderson.

June 25, 2004

Updated operating system on machine to Fedora Core 2.

April 19, 2004

I've done some work renaming some files and updating some links to make it possible to burn this web site to a CD for relatives (my father) without internet access or with slow internet access.

April 17, 2004

Wow, has it really been 6 weeks since I've done anything here? My continuing excuse is the waves of viruses continues keeping me busy nights and weekends.

On Tuesday April 14th Fred Broman sent me a couple of pictures he took on a snowmobile trip to Hultet (about 3 miles southwest of Sörbyn) which is where Lars Olof Anderson lived prior to emmigrating to maine.

• Picture of the only house left in Hultet.
• Picture of the food cellar of another house of unknown age.

February 29, 2004

FInally back to doing some work on this after a rather rough month (multiple hardware failures at work, waves of viruses and hard drive on my desktop at home failing).

On February 14th Fred Broman sent me a picture of Nils Anton Broman and his fourth wife Andrietta with NAs granddaughter Lisa.

I've added a scanned copy of a genealogy of the Sawyers and Drakes of Piscatiquis County, Maine (1979 edition) by Fred Sawyer (a distant cousin). There are references to Andersons on pages 106 107, 130, 131, 165 and 166. I've also got the 1987 supplement which I'll probably add at some time and the 1945 edition which I probably won't unless someone asks.

I've added a scanned copy of the 1900 census for Piscataquis county. There is a reference to Lars Olof Anderson and family on page 199a.

February 8, 2004

Fred Broman send me a couple of pictures with explainations.

• Picture of Magit Westerstrand (Broman) and Bengt Broman at Bengt's 80th birthday at the house in Sörbyn.
• Picture of the house in Sörbyn.

February 1, 2004

Marie Bachus sent me some pictures with explainations on January 27th. I'm finally getting time to upload them here.

• Picture of Nils Anton Broman and Family.
• Picture of Egon Broman wiith Children.
• Picture of Klara and Egon Broman with Britta.
• Picture of loggers at Widhbey island near Seattle including Axel Anderson and Egon Broman.
• Picture of Ford Erling Anderson.
• Picture of Lydia Margareta Anderson.
• Picture of Bengt Broman, son and grandsons.

Fred Broman sent me some pictures with explainations on January 29th.

• Picture of Anders and Cajsa Brita Stahre at the turn of 1800/1900 or perhaps a decade earlier.
• Picture of the Bromans and the Egons from the summer of 1952.
• Picture of Nils Anton Broman no date given.
• Portrait of Sofia Amalia Broman, third wife of N A. No date given.

January 31, 2004

Norma (Anderson) Harris sent me a few copies of photographs of family.

• Photograph of Christian Anderson, son of Lars Olof Anderson (date unknown).
• Photograph of John Everett Anderson, son of Lars Olof Anderson (age 19 or 20).
• Photograph of Eva (Anderson) Bickford, daughter of Ida Anderson (date unknown).
• Photograph of J. Everett, Aldena and Dana Anderson (date unknown but probably late 1910's).
• Photograph (from left) Eugene Bickford, Eva (Anderson) Bickford, Dana Anderson (date: summer 1929).
• A better copy of the postcard (the front anyway) showing a picture of Axel Anderson and an unknown woman (date unknown).

I've also a number of images from Marie Bacchus and Fred Broman that I'll put here when I get a chance.

January 26, 2004

I enabled viewing of deceased people by un-authenticated people in phpGedView. There really is not much data there yet. It is on my to-do list but data entry takes time. Eventually I'll add logins for those family members who are interested. The phpGedView configuration needs a little more tweaking, the update functions cause some odd messages.

Uploaded several pictures:

• Picture of August Victor Anderson from sometime in the 1940s. Milton Anderson said he took it with a box camera he bought during WWII.
• Picture of August Victor Anderson (left) and Milton Leroy Anderson (right) taken in 1952 or 1953. You can get an idea of how big August was, Milton is 6ft tall (183cm for you metric users).
• Picture of August Victor Anderson (left) and Shirley Ann Anderson (right) taken in 1952 or 1953.
• Picture of August Victor Anderson in front of garage of house on Main Street in Monson sometime in the 1940s. Copy of a copy, hope to get a better scan.
• A postcard showing Axel Anderson and an unknown woman. I have an image of the front and the back. This again is a copy of a copy and I hope to get a better scan. Note: 2004-01-31, I've gotten a better scan and replaced the image.
• Picture of Milton Leroy Anderson and Flora Ann Brown on their wedding day June 16th, 1952.
• Picture of Laura Leeman, August Victor Anderson's wife.
• Picture of the Rebeccas in 1941 including Eva Anderson (Identified here by her married name Bickford), Daughter of Ida Anderson. This was scanned from a magazine. The Monson historical Society has the original.
• Photograph of the gravestone of Lars Olof and Albertina Anderson.
• Photograph of the gravestone of Ida Anderson.
• Photograph of the gravestone of three of Lars Olof and Albertina Andersons children who died young: John, Melvina and Everett.

A few scans of obituaries:

• Lars Olof Anderson
• Robert T. Anderson
• Laura Geraldine (Leeman) Anderson

January 25, 2004

Created index page  and update log for the genealogy section of the web site.

Added scans of a letter from Kristian Wikman to Lars Olof and Albertina Anderson on April 10th 1909. What I have is a copy of a copy and it has a bit chopped off. I'm hoping to get access to the original so I can get a better scan. The scribbles on page 4 were done by either Glennys or Norma (granddaughters of Lars Olof).

There are three images pages 1 and 4 and pages 2 and 3 and an english translation.

Glennys and Norma also had a family bible that belonged to their mother (Aldena E. Minnett). I have scans of three sections, the first has Aldena's and John Everetts marriage and births listed and a penciled in death date. The second

lists children and the third lists deaths.

January 24, 2004

I upgraded the disk in my desktop and have moved the old disk (27 GB) to the server where this web site runs.  This should provide plenty of disk space for anything I want to put here.

January 23, 2004

Installed phpGedView and populated it with the data from Gramps.   At  the moment all access is password protected.  I'm not sure I want this data hanging out for anyone to see at this time.  I added administrative IDs for Therese and myself.