The family … you may get many different associations, both better and worse, when you start to think of your family. Whatsoever I think everyone of us are interested in our roots.

For me genealogy has been something I have been thinking of now and then but never had time, or have made time, for.

In January 1999 I was lucky to go to Chicago for a business trip. I remembered that I had heard my father talks about that there were relatives who went to America long ago and that some of them might live the Chicago area. That was all I knew at that time. My father helped me to find some old photos and an address to Greta in Bangor. I did a lot of research on Internet and sent emails and letters to every Ebbesson I found. What I didn't knew then was that those who went to America dropped one "s" in the Atlantic sea and instead of Ebbesson their name were Ebbeson. Those who emigrated were brothers and sisters to my grand father Gustav Ebbesson.

I didn't get any answers before I went to Chicago and heard nothing for some weeks after I got home either. Then suddenly at the same day I got a letter from Greta in Bangor and an email Gretchen. Greta is cousin to my father and Gretchen is second cousin to myself. This was the first step to lively correspondence between Sweden and Maine. This also had the good thing with it that I got in contact with and learned to know my family in Sweden much better. I was lucky to meet Magnus and his family. Magnus had made a lot of research and shared what he had with me, this was the roots of my grandfathers family. I got a copy of a family tree from Gretchen. Then my mother said that she had a family tree of her family in a drawer at home. In our own home there was a family tree of Wivecas father. All the information suddenly was there for free.

I have put all this together here in a computer program.

No dates on now living people are shown.

If some of you not want be published here or if you have information you want to add to there tree, please let me know.

There are also some old photos here on each own page.

Here below some interesting family articles will be presented. If you have some interesting reading in your drawers at home that might be interesting for more than yourself, please contact me.