Bertilsons of Morup

[Saundra Yanna]

Hello,
  My name is Saundra Yanna.  I am one of three granddaughters of Ake Bertilson.  We know he was born and raised in Morup on a family farm.  His parents were August and Augusta Bertilson.  We are looking for relatives that may still live there.  Our mother visited there with her aunt Berta Linnea and uncle Oscar in the early 1970s.  I believe they visited Erik Bertilson, my great uncle.  Any help finding realty is greatly appreciated.
  My family and I live in Coleman, Michigan, USA.

[Leif Lundkvist]

Hi Saundra,


It turns out that the family farm was Lyngen No 2 in Morup parish. Much of the family history is found in Morup (N) AIIa:8 (1926-1950) Bild 370 / sid 233 (AID: v230552.b370.s233, NAD: SE/LLA/13270), see picture below. Åke Albert moved to N. Amerika 1930-05-09, and I guess he stayed there. His brother Erik Johan married Julia Botilda from Lyngen No 1 1928-09-18 and he moved to her on 1928-11-27 and they got a daughter Ivis (or is it Iris?) Marianne born 1928-12-25. Erik left his wife and moved to N. Amerika 1929-09-04, but he returned 1938-11-08(!!) and made another child, Kerstin Majlis born 1939-05-30, see the second picture below. From that you can see that he must have returned earlier than the official date, and he can in fact have made several visits to Sweden during the 9 years. 1970 Erik and Julia still lived together in Lyngen No 5. Pictures are from ArkivDigital, excellent quality but you ned to pay a fee.

[Saundra Yanna]

Dear Leif,
   Thank you so much for this information.  I now have some traction to move forward in my quest to find and link with living relatives.

Sincerely,
Saundra

[Saundra Yanna]

Dear Leif,
   I am unfamiliar with Swedish addresses and was wondering if you could advise me.  I tried entering the address you provided into Google Maps, but it doesn’t look like the property I am familiar with.  Please see the attached photo of my Great Uncle Erik at the family farm….which I am trying to find in Google Maps. 

Thanks in advance for any help you may be able to provide.

Saundra

[Kalle Birgersson]

It seems that farm is on a smaller road that is not photographed by google, but it's in this way:
 
https://www.google.se/maps/@56.9799877,12.3761093,3a,37.7y,271.6h,86.48t/data=!3m9!1e1!3m7!1sRrnWZVO3K3pEVWsNx1GPgQ!2e0!7i16384!8i8192!9m2!1b1!2i39?hl=sv

[Leif Lundkvist]

My candidate is this one https://www.hitta.se/kartan!~56.98723,12.36958,17z/tr!i=o3Kf3sD2/tileLayer!l=1/realestate!a=1!l=56.98725:12.36950?usergeo=1. It is property Morup-Lyngen 2:121. Unfortunately the only picture I have found is from satellite. On Google maps it is even further away from a road, and I see it only as a silhouette. There are now living descendants of Erik that looks like they own properties in Lyngen, but they seem to live in Falkenberg (the closest town), one of them is the daughter born 1939.

[Saundra Yanna]

Thank you so much.  I really appreciate the help.