Typical Scandinavian-American family, circa 1900

My niece is busily archiving a vast pile of family documents to ancestry.com, and I periodically get these announcements that something new about long-gone relatives has appeared. This is a family portrait of the Westads in Fertile, MN ’round about 1900. The stern bearded fellow seated in front is my great-great-grandfather Jens Pederson Westad, and […]