Pete and Jen Sandberg (tribe of Irene) asked us all to contribute to a memoir that they produced around the time of the 2000 reunion, and that turned out to be a real keepsake, but now fifteen years later it is time for an update to that memoir. We have asked the cousins, or children of the cousins, to send us info on their families and also to share what has impacted them in being part of the Otto and Hulda Peterson Legacy. Anna Tyberg has generously laid out this new memoir and has added many photographs to enrich your journey down through the Peterson memory lane. John V. Tyberg, over the last several years, has built a robust genealogy going back as far as records take us, and he has also brought the genealogy up-to-date with the lives of the current Peterson heirs. So thank you John and Anna (tribe of Othelia) for all your efforts on our behalf!
Some may ask why this particular Swedish immigrant family, originating more than a hundred years ago on a small Wood River farm three miles east of Grantsburg, Wisconsin, should be worth the time and effort or noteworthy enough to draw us toward creating such a chronicle. I don’t think there is a concise way to answer that, but as you leaf through the remembrances of tribe by tribe, I believe you will identify diverse themes and stories of families and perspectives. Even more, from all quarters will emerge not only a sense of the blessing we have received in being given the gift of this heritage, but also a deep appreciation and sense of the somewhat inexplicable inter-connectedness of the heirs, after these many decades and being spread across this wide continent.
So in looking back we marvel and give thanks, and maybe we cannot adequately appreciate that we too have been given the opportunity to leave our own significant and wide reaching heritage that will hopefully bless, far and wide, for generations to come.
This memoir will introduce Otto and Hulda, parents to twelve children, and grandpa and grandma to “the cousins.”
Simply click on the name of a person on the family tree homepage and you’ll be taken to what reflections that family has contributed currently as well as what they submitted in 2000. This webpage will be somewhat dynamic as we welcome further contributions. Please note that once you get to the page of a cousin, there are headings for children of the cousins. We’d love to receive their updates as well. Please send your written contributions to jrtyberg@gmail.com.
Finally immense thanks to our webmaster Mark Stuckey! Thanks as well to Steve Stuckey, for his artistic rendering of the family tree.
Please note that the genealogy file not only details names, marriages, children, and deaths, but also contains narratives about the family.
Jim Tyberg
Tribe of Othelia