Hello Cindy, Holmstrom, Happy (Jr.)377 not found on that page Holmstrom, Happy (Sr.)130,109 played a fiddle Holmstrom, John listed as a first settler and old-timer, had a big threshing machine, referred to as "Big John" Holmstrom who for many years was one of the most prominent farmers in the community."Mrs. Bernard Wetteland told me of her father, "John Holmstrom was born at Sunslaw in Sweden and came to Manitoba the year of the rebellion 1885. He first took a homestead up in Danvers, N.W. of Erickson, near Round Lake. It was heavy bush bush land, and John was the best "end-man" around Basswood. He could split shingles of exactly the same thickness. Making the 'ends' of the logs for the houses was a tricky bit of axe-work, yu know they had to be morticed both ways. John did a lot of hard work on that bush farm. For some years he carried everything, including flour by the hundred weight, on his back from Minnedosa. In fifteen years he built a good house, broke up his land, and raised a big family of six boys and six girls. Holmstrom, Gladys boyfriend Richard Chandler, story of how he asked her to wait for him after the war. Jim McCullough who had been a Barnardo home boy and had been raised by the Holmstroms. p172 Holmstrom in 1901 gets a threshing machine made by Sawyer-Massey. Holmstrom, Arthur, brother-in-law to Richard Chandler. Arthur is in Texas and was two years older than Richard's wife who is a Holmstrom. She was about 16 when the war started.Arthur enlisted in WWII. Holmstrom, Eldon enlisted in WWII Holmstrom, Carl enlisted in WWII The author interviewed people for this book and their stories can be very long so I've just tried to pick out parts that might be of interest. No Lillies or variations. Hope this helps, Karen >From: DanCin <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [CAN-Manitoba] book "The Golden Thread" or "The Last of the >Pioneers"Minnedosa area >Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2003 13:46:53 -0800 > >Hello Karen, > >Thankyou for your very generous offer. Is there mention of any >Holmstrom's or Lilley's (Lillie, Lilly) in these books. I do know the >families lived in these areas in these timeframes. > >Again thankyou! > >Cindy Fisher >B.C. > >Karen S wrote: > > > > Hello Listers, > > I have the following book "The Golden Thread" or "The Lst of The >Pioneers" > > A story of the districts of Basswood and Minnedosa, Manitoba 1874-1970. > > Published by Rev. George Henry Hambley, B.A. Standard Book Number > > 0-919212-03-4. I'd be willing to do lookups in this book until it has to >be > > returned to the Winnipeg Library. > > > > Hope this helps, > > Karen > > > > _________________________________________________________________ > > Help STOP SPAM: Try the new MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* > > http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail > > > > ==== CAN-MANITOBA Mailing List ==== > > CAN-MANITOBA-L Mailing List > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~canmb/canmanitoba.htm > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy >records, go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >==== CAN-MANITOBA Mailing List ==== >Visit the Canada GenWeb Project >http://www.rootsweb.com/~canwgw/ >See the Resources and Projects > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, >go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 _________________________________________________________________ MSN 8 with e-mail virus protection service: 2 months FREE* http://join.msn.com/?page=features/virus