Born in Forty Fort, Pennsylvania, on this date in 1850: Jenny Lind Myers (not pictured). A fairly distant cousin (removed by several generations), who died at only four years, she is remarkable as my only known relative named after an opera singer. Top photo: detail from portrait of Jenny Lind, by Eduard Magnus. “The” Jenny Lind, aka “The Swedish Nightingale” made her famous US tour in 1850, the year of this cousin’s birth. Read more …
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- About the Keeper
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- Ancestral Sites in Norway
- Ancient History I: The First Millennium
- Ancient History II: 1000-1250
- Ancient History III: 1250-1500
- Early, Early Americans
- Anne Larsdatter Skurdal (1801-1890)
- Anne Samuelsdatter Bjerke (1845-1885)
- Samuel Jorgenson, AKA Samuelson(!)
- Ole Larson (1841-1908)
- Dan and Lillian Myers
- Myers, Drayer, Colby, Sprung: Back To the Revolution!
- Isaac Larson (1884-1969)
- Lovell & Reatha Larson
- Helene Olsdatter (1854-1927)
- Marte Bø: Great-Grandma, Murderess
- Philip Myers (1759-1835)
- Wyoming Captive
- Michael Myers (1768-1815)
- Smith Larson (1877-1922), WWI Vet
- Tracing the Slettens
- Martha Bennett (m. Myers, 1763- 1851)
- William Drayer (1859-1937)