Family History of the Day for 26 April: another in the semi-regular series of Great Aunts and Uncles I Never Knew! Today is the anniversary of the marriage of Nina Christine Onstad (06 Sep 1900 – 09 Oct 1985), one my grandmother Alma’s younger sisters. She was married on this date in 1927 to Arthur W Schroeder (29 Nov 1897 – 02 Jan 1957) in St. Paul, MN.
Recently, Ancestry added a large number ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) records which cover many churches in MN so I’m having a field day finding images to back up dates. What I especially love is that the historically Norwegian churches kept their records in the Norwegian language, sometimes up until the 1970s. Or, if the handwritten entries are in English, they frugally kept and used their historic record books with Norwegian column headers. In this case, the American Lutheran Church in St. Paul apparently needed more pages for marriages than confirmations so they just relabeled the title and headers!
Nina and Art lived in the Caledonia, MN area. Until now, I didn’t realize that Nina and my grandmother were widowed within months of each other, as grandfather John B Blixrud died in June 1956.