Boxholm II - Philadelphia Widings' Photos 1920's, 1930's.

Tiny photographs, curling, barely identifiable people, places that were roots to the emigrant family that left a long time ago: ours -- Philip Wilhelm Widing. If there is an archive at the Boxholm Library, or elsewhere, these may fill in some other views. Family resemblances: the current crop of Widings look very much like these. Strong roots.

Are some from Anna Osterlund Widing's family's home, at Kinnekulle? The church steeple below looks like it is Husaby, at Kinnekulle. Is the lake here the nearby Lake Vanern? We do not seem to have seen Ekeby, where we now understand there are Widings buried.

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Is  that Hans Widing, Farfar, on the left?

Traditional dress on the right.  Who is that with Anna, on the right? 

Not enough beard to be Farfar, or Hans Widing. 

Flood? Vanern? Whose home? Sweden, Boxholm - Kinnekulle trip 1920's - 1930's

Possibly Husaby Kyrke, at Kinnekulle (area of Anna Osterlund Widing)

This looks like our photo of Husaby Kyrke, at Kinnekulle. So, some of these photos may well not be Boxholm, but the Kinnekulle area. Families, label your pictures.

Lake Vanern?

h. Anna Osterlund Widing, standing, middle. Is her mother Kajsa Johannsdotter in there? Widings?

Foundry slag heap, Boxholm, Sweden

Is this Ekeby, Sweden?

Note to self. Take church pictures full front with steeple. Every time.

Is this Kinnekulle?

The sudden plateau does not look like Boxholm.

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Heaving hay. Who had the farm?

Looking these up.

Surname, Widing. Boxholm -- Looking for Roots. Family Widing, starting points

Boxholm, Sweden

Widings in the 1920's, 1930's.  Return visits by Philip Wilhelm Widing and Anna Osterlund Widing, on either side of the flowers, to the family home - now gone - and we do not know if others also returned to visit from America, or what.   FN 1

Widing photographs, Boxholm, Sweden perhaps 1920's return visit Philip O. Widing and Anna Osterlund Widing, at floral center, from Philadelphia

The Widing men -- Philip's four sons -- all look like these. 

Genes are eerie.

Boxholm, Sweden, 1920's?

Boxholm, Sweden, 1920's?

aBoxholm, Sweden, 1920's? Anna Osterlund Widing at right, and it looks like Philip O. Widing on the far right, my husband's grandfather. 

Boxholm, Sweden, 1920's. Anna Osterlund in center. 

Boxholm, Sweden, 1920's. Who? #1

Boxholm, Sweden 1920's. Philip O. Widing, someone, and Anna Osterlund Widing. Could that be FarFar on the right, the father of Philip?

Boxholm, Sweden, 1920's?  Who?

Boxholm, Sweden, 1920's? Who? #2

Boxholm, Sweden, 1920's? Who? #3

Boxholm person photographed Stockholm,  Sweden, 1920's

Boxholm, Sweden, 1920's.  My favorite.

On the boat. Going to or returning from visit to Boxholm, Sweden, 1920's.  Anna and Philip Widing, but who on far left, and in between?

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Boxholm, Sweden, 1920's. Who? #4

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Boxholm, Sweden, 1920's.  Anna Osterlund Widing on left

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Boxholm, Sweden, 1920's. Who? #5.  Anna Osterlund Widing front row left?

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Boxholm, Sweden, 1920's. Who? #6

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Boxholm trip, Sweden, 1920's; but this must be Stockholm? Who? #6

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Some Widings (ours) stemmed from Boxholm. My husband's grandfather was Philip Wilhelm Widing, and he married Anna Matilda Osterlund, after they were here in the United States. We don't know how they met.

For the Widing family, they all seem to have left Boxholm in the late 1800's. A diaspora, along with the thousands and thousands of other emigrants in the late 19th Century to America.

We believe these photos are from a return trip in the 1920's of Philip Wilhelm Widing and Anna. They had settled in Philadelphia. Anna Osterlund was originally from Kinnekulla, Sweden. How did they meet? Their return visit was to; to Philip Wilhelm Widing's home at Boxholm.

The town has undergone urban renewals, so that the old houses we were looking for are gone, and new efficient blocky buildings (very functional, and serve the purpose) have been put up instead. That happens everywhere, but is a disappointment to returning families who hoped to find perhaps a quaint Ystad inland. Not so. But people were so friendly and helpful, and we enjoyed the pizza for lunch and even met someone with great access to the library -- fine people, in Boxholm. She came in just to help. This is a fine community for living.

Still, towns in Sweden seem to have none of those basic information-theme centers (the big universal "i" sign); or arrow signs on posts to direct folks around.

We came in the wrong way, through the woods, and possibly missed signs at the lake side route. Perhaps we should have started at the RR station, but then we would have missed that wonderful library. Need to go back to see the local museums and find gravesites at Ekeby. We had tried to find old graves at the big church, and did not realize that the old small parishes may have been a place to look, predating 1880 or so. Next ones back, go look for Farfar's kors.