Mightier Acorns

Journeys through Genealogy and Family History

A parody of a family coat of arms designed with acorns as elements, with the motto "ex gladnis potentioribus" Latin for "from Mighty Acorns"
From Mighty Acorns

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Tad Callin has been working on family history and genealogy since the late 1990s. He does most of his research on Ancestry and posts what he learns to WikiTree.

Category: Ramsey County, MN

  • Family Reunion: Swedahl

    Going four generations back to find another line This surname can be found among my wife’s Sixteen great-great-grandparents. We have to go that far back to find the first Swedahl – Ingeborg Olesdatter Swedahl – 01 Jun 1858 – 30 May 1934 Ingeborg was the maternal grandmother of my wife’s maternal grandfather, Arvid Wesley “Bud”…

  • Family Reunion: Leander/Lenander

    a quick overview of my work on this surname My mother-in-law’s paternal grandmother was Hildur Agda Leander (1886-1945). She wished you “Merry Christmas, from 1938” a few weeks ago – she’s seated between the Christmas tree and her husband, Arvid William Holmquist: Hildur was the daughter of Gustav Leander and Ingeborg Swedahl, born on 18…