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Our family of 452 people has at
least eight sets of twins!
More twin facts:
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Lorrie & Linda were born on
the same day as Jane & Jenny...exactly 30 years later!
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Connie & Candie came 18
years later, and missed the same b-day by only 5 days!
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None of these twins are
identical. In fact, the last three sets of twins in the list above
are boy-girl twins (which is not possible for identical twins)!
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There are no twins in Arly's,
Sig's, Laverne's, Pauline's, or Esther's families. All of the twins
are in Helen's, Beverly's, Jenny's, and Jane's families.
Trivia about Great-grandpa Jonas,
courtesy of Aunt Cheryl
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Before coming to the United
States, Grandpa Jonas didn't actually live in Sweden, even though he was a
full-blooded Swede. He lived over the border in Finland, and what he
spoke was actually known as Swede-Finn.
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The town he came from (as we
were told), was in Lapland, north of the Arctic Circle. This makes
him one of the few immigrants to the U.P. who moved to a WARMER climate!
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Grandpa Jonas used to own the
land on which the Groveland Mine sits. He gave it to one of his
sisters when she got married. He used to brag about how much money
that land was worth, so he must've been quite generous!
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Jonas also owned a sawmill and
provided the lumber to build most of the older homes in Iron
Mountain!
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Here's the best one of all:
Grandpa J walked CROSS COUNTRY to Iron Mountain (as in over the hills and
through the streams, where there were no roads), about 15 miles, in his
BEDROOM SLIPPERS!
What's in a Name?
I had
always believed that Grandpa Jonas was forced to change his name from Isaakson
to Sundholm at Ellis Island because "too many Isaaksons" were
already coming into the country. This was common practice during the
immigration years of the late 19th and early 20th century.
But Aunt Cheryl has the
ship's manifest, which lists him as "Jonas Sundholm." She believes
that a passenger manifest is made out before they board the ship, so
logically....if his name was changed from Isaakson, it was done then rather
than on Ellis Island when he arrived.
If anyone in the family
has more details on this, please send them to me!
Here are a couple more old
photos of the "original" Sundholms. Just click either photo to
enlarge:
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| Jonas & Emma's Family,
1920s |
Grandma Emma in her 60s |
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