For those of you who ever had the pleasure of sitting down with Signe to listen to her tell one of her favorite stories, I hope you will enjoy my book, An Egebo Story. I am in the process of writing it and as a tool have created this blog to help me sort through the mountain of photos, documents and stories I have collected during this several year process. Many of the stories came from interviews that I and my uncle Warren (Signe and Isak's only son) did with her in the later years of her life.
The inspiration for this book and now this blog came from a family history book written by Milt Anderson, a cousin of my father's. Several years ago he wrote a family history of the Pearson and Anderson families in both Sweden and America. He traced back the family some 150 years -- from 1880s Sweden across the ocean to the eastern South Dakota community of Center. His work led to a great collection of photos, stories and family trees.
Researching Isak's and Signe's stories has not been easy but it's also been rewarding. I hope you enjoy the results.
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