Lindgren Family Memories

Welcome, family. Pull up a chair. These are our stories — who we are, where we came from, and the moments we never want to forget.

The Stories

1. 
   Story One

   Uncle Dick’s Memoir

   Richard Lindgren’s own account of growing up, from Malmö to the Alberta prairie to Kenosha, 1908–1949.

2. 
   Story Two

   Coming to Canada

   How Oskar, Ida and their boys crossed an ocean and a continent to Beverly, Alberta, 1911–1919.

3. 
   Story Three

   Early Life in Sweden

   The Lindgrens and Malmbergs of Malmö, and the world the family left behind.

4. 
   Story Four

   The Saga of the Lindgrens

   Dick Lindgren’s handwritten year-by-year record of the family in the New World, 1911–1927.

5. 
   Story Five

   Coming to America

   Ida and the five children cross the border at Noyes, Minnesota, to join Oskar, May 1919.

The Collection