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A few pages about Signe Helena Nykvist, a.k.a. Helen Lundell

The most encouraging event since I started to research my family eight years back happended early this year; I finally succeeded in finding relatives in the USA, descendants of Signe Helena Nykvist, a sister to my grandmother. Signe emigrated in 1913, and the last track of her was my father telling that he had met her in New York back in 1934.

My father passed away many years ago, and all the usual tracks stopped at Ellis Island in 1913. American spelling of foreign names didn't make it easier, in the immigration records she is listed as "Seyne Helena Nygerit"

In January this year, I had a piece of luck, for Signe's uncle left a will that became available on the Internet. In the will she is called Signe Lundell, so now I knew that her married name was Lundell!

After a few days browsing American White pages I found a possible candidate for being her son, wrote a snail mail letter to him, and - heureka! - he was!

Now we are busy making up for 97 years of no contact, and I have compiled a few pages to publish here on our genealogy site.

They are:

• My first letter to her son, Irving J Lundell
• Signe Helena Nykvist - as far as I know her story
• Signe's (Helen's) and Gunnar's Marriage Certificate
• More photos of Signe and her sisters; and a renowned ancestor.
• The mail where I tell Irving about myself
• The story about Anders Moléen, Signe's grandmother's grandfather
• A diagram of her ancestors, four generations back
• Signe Helena Nykvist's and Gunnar Julius Lundell's genealogy
• A short text explaining what people were called before family names were introduced in Sweden

Yours ever,
Ann Britt Bergström, née Eklund

Uppdated 2010-03-30