Margaret Tifft Janis has been interested in family history for as long as she can remember. Following a fast-paced career and a major health scare, her life finally slowed down enough to start researching her family history in 2012. This is a brief recounting of her life before Tengens.net.
As a child, Margaret Tifft heard many stories about the history of her blended and extended family, told by her parents, and her many grandparents. She was intrigued by these stories and always wanted to research the genealogy and history of her extended and blended family. This is the story of how her passion developed a very early age.
In Tengens.net, half sisters, Margaret Tifft Janis and B. Mary Tifft Froelicher present the results of their research into the history of the Tifft, Goodrich, Hallberg, and Watson families, which became one complex, extended, and blended family when Cyril Tifft and Margaret Jean Goodrich Watson were married in 1947. Tengens.net is their family storie, told in posts.
Mary Tifft Froelicher’s mother died when she was just over two. She always gravitated to her mother’s Swedish parents who ignited her interest in her Swedish ancestry. Following a career as a public health nurse and later a home health nurse, she spends much of her time researching and writing about her Swedish roots.
Mary Tifft’s “momma” died when she was just two. Missing her mother’s love, she gravitated to her mother’s parents, Swedish immigrants Anna and Carl Hallberg. In college, she went to Europe for the first time and visited her grandparents’ home in Utterbyn, Värmland, Sweden. There she met several second cousins who have become lifelong friends, and found records of her grandparents’ departure from Sweden in the parish church, igniting in her a lifelong passion for discovering her Swedish roots.
