Breakthrough

Wow what a day!
So today was a nice day, Rigmor Göte and I went to Resele where Bror Oscar my Great-Great Grandpa was born! It was so cool I was awed the whole time. I took tons and tons of pictures. I took pictures of everything, literally everything I saw. It was such an amazing feeling that I can't explain, to be there. It was so amazing and I wouldn't trade that little time for the world. Any of my family that is reading this (*cough* Grandma and Grandpa Irene) NEVER may I repeat NEVER give up a chance to go to that place while you can and see where your ancestors came from, you will learn so much not only about your ancestors but about yourself and what makes you who you are. I can't stress how important it is that you, John and Evelyn Irene, should go there. It's a once in a lifetime thing. And don't worry about language barriers I have a good friend who can speak swedish now haha. Anyway so that was amazing and the high light of the whole trip. So I learned alot there. After we visited the house we went to the actual town Resele which isn't too far away. There we got ice cream and looked at head stones in the towns graveyard. There is a place in the graveyard called an "All Mans place" (I think thats what it translates to from swedish). Its a place where if you are unable to pay for a nice burial site you can be buried in this place. So its pretty much a giant grave for the poor farmers. Rigmor thinks that is where my great great great grandpa Johan Olof Irén is  buried. But nobody knows for sure.

So before I came to sweden we were unable to get past my great great great Grandpa Johan Olof Irén in our family history. I can tell you, today, after 2 hours of research, we are past Johan Olof Irén (born 1846). We are now to my 14th great Grandfather Givlögs (no idea how to pronounce that) born in the 1470's or so. PHEW! It feels so so so so so amazing to finally get something done with family history. But there is a catch in all this amazing news. We are pretty sure that Olof Olofsson is Johan Olof Irén's father but we don't know for sure because Olof and Stina were not married when Johan was born, so its not set in stone. The point is that my 2 hours of research could be a waste of time and we could still be stuck at Johan Olof Irén, but I have a deep feeling that its not, I feel as if Olof Olofsson really was Johan Olof Irén's  father. So I am scooting right along trying to tie up all the loose ends in our family history and doing pretty rockin awesome (I have even passed Rigmor in family names! haha) So be ready when I come home family, get your baptismal cards ready! Well it's about 11 pm here and I am exhausted so I am going to bed but I thought all of you would like to hear of my discovery!
Love,
Micah