I am new to this list so I hope I get everything included in hopes of finding out more about these folks. It sounds complicated but maybe I can type it in a way that ya'all can feel my need for help. I have a copy of an obituary from the 2/10/1932 edition of the Willmar Tribune for a John Nelson who died in Willmar, Kandiyohi County, Minnesota on February 8, 1932. As in the subject line, John was born March 22, 1842 in Kristianstad's lan, Sweden. The obituary, unlike those of today, makes mention of his wife, Ellen; mentioning that she passed away September 30th last (would be 1931). John and Ellen married June 4, 1872 but does not say weather they married in Sweden or America. The obituary only says that he was a wellknown old pioneer of the county who has made his home in the city for over forty years. To me, that does not mean to say that he emigrated at that time but that he made his home within the city of Willmar, possibly moving inward from the outlying rural area? Oh, it does say that "they" lived for many years in their residence at 528 Third Street. The obituary tells me that they had no children but there are nephews and nieces surviving on both sides of the family, that Mrs. Nels Sjoberg is a surviving sister of John Nelson's wife, Ellen, and that the late Mrs. John Paulson was a sister of Mrs.(Ellen) Nelson. A sister of the deceased Mr. Nelson was Mrs. Anna Johnson, mother of the late attorney Charles Johnson and the surviving members of the O. L. Johnson family of Kandiyohi. My great-aunt Ellen Swenson Lundeen put this obituary in one of her scrapbooks and made note at the top of the clipping that "Mrs. N. was my mother's cousin". What now....I do have what was written in the Swedish archives but don't necissarily understand all of what they tell. Can anyone shed some light on who these folks might be? Cathie