Volume I
October 1999

About our Research

We started this project early this spring, and with help from our dauther Cory, we were able to locate a record of Elmer's birth at the Sherburne County Court house among some of their old records. While looking, not only was his birth record found but some of his brothers and sisters birth records also were located. Marriage and death records for others could also be located.

On Mother's day, when Catherine and her family were visiting, we all made a trip to Becker to the Sherburne County Historical Society. There we were given a map from 1903, of Livonia showing where August and Maria, and Olof and Christina owned property on Lake Fremont.

With this information, it was back to the Elk River Court house to research the land records. Several hours and many copies of land transactions later, we had the complete history of their land ownership.

With information from Bev Adams, and Agnes Valen, we took our first research trip to Stillwater. We went to the Stillwater Historical Society and went through the city's old directories. We were able to first find them in 1873 living on William Street. During this visit, the person in charge of the Warden's house, which is now the Stillwater Historical museum, gave us as much information as he could find. We went through death records, and were able to find out the circumstances of Anders' death.

We have made additional trips to Stillwater looking for information. One day was spent at the court house researching land transactions, and birth, death, and marriage records. During this trip, we were able to locate the place in Sweden where Anders came from. This was a major breakthrough.

They were very involved in the church and we have been able to get a lot of information from the churches they belonged to. They became members of Trinity Lutheran church in Stillwater on November 3, 1873. The church gave us copies of all the records they had for the Nyberg's. This included baptism records of the children.

We are now researching the records in Sweden, and finding out about family that we did not know existed.

All of the dates and places mentioned are documented from Swedish records. The spelling of the names will vary from time to time.

Our one stumbling block is the fact that we do not read Swedish, but with the help of a couple of good books we can do a word by word translation. If anyone knows Swedish, we would greatly appreciate having you look at copies of the Swedish records that we have.

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