Welcome to our "Nyberg News" Family Web Site.

The project of locating our Nyberg and Rudin Ancestors started out as just  curiosity a little more than 25 years ago. It has proven to be a very time consuming, yet  interesting and rewarding project.  We have made contact with some family  members and have gotten a lot of information from them. We are continuing to  find more ancestors and their descendents than we ever thought possible, and  will keep on researching until we find living descendents either still in  Sweden, or wherever they may be.

If you have any information you would like to add to our site please contact  us.

 * * * * * * * * * * * * Newsletter - Volume I  * * * * * * * * * * * * *

                                 Välkommen 

In the very short time since we started our research for the Nyberg family, we  have found some very interesting information.

And thanks to some very helpful family members, we have added a lot of their  memories and stories, pictures, postcards, etc. to our research. We could not  have gotten this far in such a short time without the help from Bev Adams,  Agnes Valen, Sonny Nyberg, Leona Nyberg, Jean Nyberg, and Al Johnson, along  with others who have completed their family information that was requested  from them.

                 **** View the Picture of Anders and his family ****

You are a descendent of the people in this picture, either by birth, adoption,  or marriage.

Do you know which one you descend from? Do you know who is who?

This picture of August and Mary (Maria) Nyberg, and their eleven children, was  taken circa 1911.

These thirteen people have grown to over 200 people. Each person adds a lot to  our history.

We have found a lot more about these people than we can tell you about in this  newsletter. We hope to be able to do up a complete history when we feel that  we have found all that we can.

There are still more people to be added. We are still searching for the rest  of their descendants, and their ancestors.

The Grandparents 
 Maria Casja Olsdotter, was born to Olof Hansson and Anna Andersdotter on July  28, 1810 in Björkenäs, Ny, Värmland, Sweden.

Per Andersson Hällfelt was born December 12, 1812 in Hälle, Ny, Värmland,  Sweden. 
 He was a soldier.

Anders Persson was born to Maria Olsdotter and Per Andersson Hällfelt in Ny,  Värmland, Sweden, on February 3, 1834. Several years later, Maria married Nils  Andersson Nyberg, (a soldier) and they had four children. Anders did not take  the name of Nyberg but continued to use his patryonic name Persson.

Eric Tomasson was born in Sweden on 20 Jun 1793. Marta Ericsdotter, was born  on October 3, 1797 in Långserud, Värmland, Sweden. They were married on  December 26, 1820. On September 4, 1821, they had a daughter named Maria  Ericsdotter. She was born in Rudsbyn, Värmland, Sweden. They also had a son by  the name of Olof Ericsson born in Rudsbyn on August 21, 1832. In approximately  1860, Olof added the name Rudin after Ericsson.

Eric Larsson was born in Långserud, Värmland, Sweden on May 24, 1792. His wife  Malin Jonsdotter, was born in Långserud, on January 15, 1793. They ere married  on December 26, 1818. They had four daughters, Catherina was born in Mölnerud,  Värmland, Sweden, on November 17, 1823, and Christina Charlotte was born in  Eldansnäs, January 5, 1827, Johanna was born in Eldansnäs, on July 13, 1835.  Gustava was born on February 27, 1830, in Eldansnäs. They also had one son  named Carl. He was born on November 4, 1820 in Gilberga, Värmland, Sweden.

Eric Larsson and his family were tenant farmers, and moved often, but never  moved very far away. They always stayed in Långserud Parish in Värmland.

Eric and Malin's daughter Catherina married Anders Persson in Långserud on  April 22, 1860.  They had a daughter Johanna, born September 9, 1860 in  Långserud. She died on December 2, 1865. Their son August was born November  15, 1865, just prior to Johanna's death.

Their daughter Christina married Olof Ericsson Rudin on January 10, 1864. They  had a daughter named Maria, born on August 27, 1867.

On May 21, 1869 Anders and Catherina and August left Sweden and sailed to  North America. After arriving in America, Anders changed the family name from  Persson to Nyberg. We lose track of them until they show up in Stillwater,  Minnesota in 1873.

The Rudins moved in with the Nybergs on William Street in downtown Stillwater.

On February 8, 1886 August and Maria were married.

They either bought or built a home of their own next door to his parents.

August and Maria's first five children were born in Stillwater, MN.

In approximately 1893, August and Maria left Stillwater and moved to Livonia,  Minnesota where Maria's parents had moved to previously. They bought land from  the Railroad, on Lake Fremont adjoining property that Olof and Christina had  homesteaded.

Anders and Catherina continued to live in Stillwater in the home that they  owned on William Street. In 1899 Anders died in a tragic accident at work.  Shortly after his death, Catherina went to Livonia to live with August and  Maria.

Even when they came to America, they seemed to move a lot. In spite of this,  they were very active in their local church. It is said that they helped to  start a church in Zimmerman, Minnesota.

In approximately 1909, the Nyberg family moved to Minneapolis. August was a  salesman, and was gone from home often. However, he kept in touch with his  family. We have postcards, originals and copies, that he sent home to his  family members when he was away. Most are from places in Minnesota, some are  form Canada and North Dakota. He was a salesman of Nursery Stock.

* * * * * * * * * * * * Newsletter  -  Volume II * * * * * * * * * * * * *

Välkommen 
 As our research continues we find that the church was an important part of the  families lives. When Anders, Catherina, & August Nyberg came to America in  1869, they joined the Trinity Lutheran Church in Stillwater, MN. When Olof  Rudin and his family came to America in 1885, they met up with Anders and  Catherina and August in Stillwater.

Eventually Olof and Christina moved to Livonia. Several years later when  August and Maria Nyberg joined Olof and Christina, there evidently was not a  church that could fill their needs like the church they belonged to in Sweden.

It has been told to us by family members, that August W. Nyberg had helped to  organize a church in Livonia after he moved his family there from Stillwater.  When we went to the Sherburne County Historical Society to substantiate this  they could not find any record of the church's existence.

Recently on a trip to the American Swedish Institute we were fortunate to get  to meet with the director of the research center. She spent three hours with  us helping to translate and understand the Swedish records we have been  accumulating from the Mormon Family History Center.

She also found records of the ?Livonia Swedish Lutheran Church? that August W  Nyberg, along with Olof Rudin and others in the area, had founded in 1898.

These records were on a microfilm that the Swedish Institute had on file  there. We were able to view the actual church records on a microfilm reader.  This included everything from the minutes of the meetings, (written in  Swedish), to marriages, baptisms, death notices, and attendance. August was  the church secretary. (At this time we were not able to get copies as the  printer on their microfilm printer was not working.) In 1904 the Trinity  Lutheran church of Princeton was founded as a spin- off of the Livonia Church.  A trip to this church turned up some of the original books we were looking  for. Hopefully the rest will show up. (The Livonia Swedish church was  disbanded in 1942. The Nybergs had left the area by this time.) In 1910 after  they had moved to Minneapolis, they joined the Emanuel Swedish Evangelical  Lutheran Church in Northeast Minneapolis.

Our goal is to find Descendants still living, either here in America or in  Sweden or Norway.

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Anna Andersdotter was born to Anders Jonsson and Maria Larsdotter in 1779 in  Ullen, Värmland, Sweden.

Olof Hansson was born February 3, 1775 in Ny, Värmland, Sweden.

Anna married Olof Hansson in Ny, Värmland, Sweden in 1809. On July 28, 1810  they had a daughter, and named her Maria Cajsa Olsdotter.

When Maria Cajsa was 6 years old, her mother died of lung folk (pneumonia) on  April 29, 1816 at the age of 37.

A year later, her father Olof, who was a farmer and a tailor, married Ingeborg  Nilsdotter, and they had 3 children. (Anna Olsdotter, born June 30, 1822,  Stina Olsdotter, born March 29, 1824, and Nils Olsson born November 29, 1830.)

Maria Cajsa lived with her father and Ingeborg and her 2 half sisters and half  brother in Fiskevik, Ny, Värmland, Sweden, until 1828 when she left to go work  at another farm.

On February 3, 1834, Maria gave birth to a son. She named him Anders. 

Ander's father, a soldier, was Per Andersson Hällfelt, born December 12, 1812  in Hälle, Värmland, Sweden) Per and Maria never married.

Shortly after Anders was born Maria and her son moved back to live with her  father in Fiskevik.

On October 26, 1839, Maria married Nils Andersson Nyberg from Ny, Värmland,  Sweden. They continued to live in Ny and had four more children.

Ander's brother, Olof Nilsson Nyberg was born November 30, 1839 in Björkenäs,  Ny. He was confirmed in 1855. Due to poor records for that area we then lose  track of him until he shows up in Asker, Akershus, Norway. He married Kaisa  Nilsdotter from Gunnerskog, Värmland, Sweden on September 9, 1866. They had a  son named Johan Olsson (Nyberg), born August 7, 1866, and a daughter named  Marie Oline (Nyberg), born December 13, 1869. We cannot find any record of  Johan after this. In 1901, Olof and Kaisa and Maria are living in Christiana,  (Oslo), Norway. Maria is listed as working in a tobacco factory.

Ander's other brother, Nils Nilsson Nyberg was born May 31, 1842 in Björkenäs,  Ny. On November 5, 1870 he married Magdalena Andersdotter in Arvika, Värmland,  Sweden. They had three children.

Christina Elisabeth Nyberg, was born January 14, 1871, Karolina Nyberg born  January 23, 1874, and Karl Albert Nyberg, born October 8, 1876, in Arvika,  Sweden.

Nils wife, Magdalena Andersdotter died June 11, 1893. Nils, now a widower, was  still living in Arvika in 1910. This is the last record we can find of him.

Ander's sister, Anna Nilsdotter Nyberg was born April 17, 1845 in Björkenäs,  Ny, Värmland, Sweden. On September 5, 1865 she gave birth to a daughter and  named her Maria Fredrika Andersdotter. The record for this time period states  (the best that we can translate) that after Maria was baptized, Anna sent her  daughter to live elsewhere. (She may have possibly put her up for adoption, or  put her in the equivalent to a foster home) Anna shows up living elsewhere  with out her daughter, and due to the fact that Swedish clerical surveys end  in 1895 we cannot follow Anna and completely lose track of where she or her  daughter went.

Ander's other sister, Stina Cajsa Nilsdotter Nyberg was born November 5, 1849  in Björkenäs, Ny, Värmland, Sweden. She married Johan Magnus Andersson on  March 9, 1873 in Ny. Their first three children were all stillborn.

On July 7, 1876 Johan changed his name to Johan Magnus Lundell, and they moved  to Åmål, Alvsborg, Sweden.

On March 26, 1877, they had twin boys. Johan lived two days, and Carl lived  for twenty days.

Hulda, their first daughter, was born October 15, 1878. She died July 8, 1893. 

Their Niece Maria Fredrika Andersdotter (daughter of Anna, who was given up  for adoption) shows up living with Stina Cajsa Nyberg and Johan Magnus  Andersson Lundell in Åmål on 12/22/1879. Unfortunately we have not yet found  out where she had been all this time.

A son Carl Magnus was born October 3, 1880. 

Signe Elfmina was born September 1, 1883, (she died: January 20, 1885) 

They all move to Stockholm, Sweden on July 9, 1883. Maria Fredrika also moved  to Stockholm, with her Aunt and Uncle under the name Hansson and she died,  unmarried in the same parish January 12,1886.

Sigrid Anna was born, December 23, 1887 in Stockholm. 

Marta Arabelle was born July 26, 1887 and she died on August 25, 1907. 

Nils Johan Isreal was born on August 29, 1885. 

Stina Cajsa Nyberg Lundell died in Stockholm, Sweden on May 19, 1915.

Anders Persson married Catherina Eriksdotter on April 21, 1860 in Längserud,  Värmland, Sweden.

They had a daughter born September 9, 1860 and named her Johanna. Johanna died  December 2, 1865, at the age of 5.

On November 15, 1865, they had a son and named him August. 

Anders, Catherina and August continued to live in Värmland Sweden in various  small villages, until May 21, 1869, when they left Sweden.

They went to Christiana, (Oslo) Norway and boarded the Bark Immanuel, to come  to America. (Read about this ship)

After landing in Canada, they continued their journey by taking another ship  through the Great Lakes and entering the United States of America at the port  of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in August 1969.

Anders and his family made their way across Wisconsin and settled in Dakota  County, where he applied for his intent for citizenship to the US on the first  day of April 1870.

It is at this time that he changed his name to Andrew Persson Nyberg. 

A.P. (as he was also known) and his wife Catherina and son August eventually  moved to Stillwater, Minnesota. He finalized his US Citizenship in Washington  County on November 22, 1876.

He owned several pieces of property on William Street in Stillwater and they  continued to live there.

Anders was a stonemason. 

Anders brought his mother to America. On June 16, 1876 she left Sweden and  came to America on the "Hero"  She later went back to Sweden. She died there  in 1890. Her husband Nils Andersson Nyberg died in Myre, Ny, Värmland Sweden  on November 18, 1881.

In 1885 Olof Rudin and his wife Christina (Catherina Nyberg's sister) and  their daughter, Maria, along with Christina's niece, Ida Andersdotter, came to  America and joined Anders and his family in Stillwater. (See Volume II to read  about Ida Andersdotter and Olof Fredrick Dahlstrom)

Maria Rudin married August Nyberg on 2/8/1886. (See Volume I) 

On Sunday, September 9, 1899, A.P. was building a cistern at a home in  Stillwater. As he was completing the project, he climbed down into the cistern  to take out the scaffolding, and it collapsed on him and killed him.

He is buried in paupers field in a cemetery in Stillwater, MN.

After his death, his wife Catherina moved to Livonia to live with her son  August and his family. She died on January 15, 1906 and is buried in an  unmarked grave in the Livonia Cemetery.