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Deep Diving: Water Wheels and Paper Making in 19th Century Sweden

Researching is really about deep diving. It is the only way to flesh out an ancestor’s life. For me it almost always starts with a question. In this case why was my 2nd great grandfather Carl Gustaf Vantsrum [originally Wenernström] born in Fässberg, Jönköping Sweden, which was 100 miles west of where his family had […]

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