Identity elements
Reference code
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Title
Date(s)
- 1917-2001 (Creation)
Extent
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
This is an informally-written account of the Londgren, or Lundgren, family history. It begins with Frank August Londgren and Christine Pettersson, who in their emigration from Sweden in started the American branch of the family. The narrative continues with chapters delineating the three generations. Photographs are interspersed with stories that give brief but more individual biographies of the family members.
Consists of one spiral bound book half an inch thick.
System of arrangement
Conditions of access and use elements
Conditions governing access
Physical access
Technical access
Conditions governing reproduction
Languages of the material
Scripts of the material
Language and script notes
Finding aids
Acquisition and appraisal elements
Custodial history
Immediate source of acquisition
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling information
Accruals
Related materials elements
Existence and location of originals
Existence and location of copies
Related archival materials
Related descriptions
Notes element
General note
Biographical Note
Born in 1861 in the Småland Province of Sweden, Frank August Londgren immigrated to America in 1882, eventually settling in Malmo, Nebraska. There he met and married Christine "Tine" Pettersson, born in 1866 in Torup Parish in Skåne, Sweden. They started a homestead together and had 11 children who were all born and grew up in Nebraska. Some of their children remained in Nebraska as farmers, while others moved to Minnesota, Portland, and the Seattle/Tacoma areas of Washington establishing businesses.