Sandy and Pat's trip to Sweden  June, 2000 (page 2 of 3)

Pat's grandmother, Matilda, came to America from the provence of  Halland, Sweden just before 1900.  Matilda returned to Sweden twice to visit her family before she died and Pat's mother, Alice, visited her family in 1957.  When Alice passed away in 1997, Pat did not know how to reach her Swedish relatives and was afraid that she would never be able to find them.  In her search, she came across Bridge to Sweden.com.  This site contains good information on how to find your Swedish roots as well as trips to Sweden.  Much to our delight, there was a trip planned to Halland and we signed up. Marie Louise from Bridge to Sweden helped us locate our Swedish family and we were able to meet them. Pat will never forget her excitement when she got E-Mail from her second cousins Ingalill and Britt-Marie. The family had a big party for us at mother's first cousin Evert's summer place and also spent a day driving us around the area where Pat's grandmother grew up.  They also managed to find time to have a picnic with us our last day in  .

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Halmstad is a beautiful city in Halland province		Pat's Swedish cousins picked us up and took us to Tylosand beach and hotel.	View of the Kattegat from Tylosand
Then we went to mother's cousin Evert's summer place for a reunion with the family	Mother's first cousins Sven-Erik, Siv, Tora, and Ingemar	Pat's second cousins Magnus, Ingalill, Ingrid, Cecilia, Hélén, Christian, and Britt-Marie	Sandy and Pat
Evert, Ingemar, Siv and Pat		Reunion dinner
Pat and Britt-Marie	We took a train ride around the compound of summer cottages	One of the cottages	Ingallil and Evert.  Kennet is driving the train
		The kids got a train ride too	Mother's cousin Siv resembles Pat's mother and grandmother
Carina drove us back to a seaside restaurant where we had dinner with our tour group	The owner of the restaurant came out and sang for us	Britt-Marie and  Ingalill at their mother Ingrid's house	They drove us to Bjärnared where Pat's grandmother was born
We had a picnic at  no.2 Bjärnared		The church as Asige is where grandmother was confirmed.	John and Johanna, Pat's great grandparents are here (behind Ingalill)
John and Julia were Ingalill and Brit Marie's grandparents and John was Pat's grand uncle.	Hallarina Farmstad from the 16th century.  The family had a reception for Pat's mother here in 1957.	Ingalill's daughter Carmilla  and her friend Martin	Ingallil's son Martin was  home from school in England
Ingalill's family	Britt Marie's family.  Bear is Bjorn in Swedish.	Ingallil, Pat, and Britt-Marie	Magnus and the cat