Carl Hjalmer Hallberg and Anna Elisabet Jonsdotter, the parents of Beatrice Hallberg Tifft, were immigrants from Utterbyn, in Värmland, Sweden. They settled in North Minneapolis in the early 1900s. This is the story of their ancestors.
Beatrice Hallberg was born to Swedish immigrants Carl and Anna Hallberg in Minneapolis in 1908. She became a teacher, and later married a young doctor, Cyril Tifft, with whom she had two daughters, Elizabeth and Mary. She died suddenly at age 38, leaving Cyril without his beloved Bea, to raise his two little girls.
Before 1900, many Swedish families used patronymic surnames which changed every generation based on the father’s first name. Patronyms make it difficult to trace Swedish ancestry. This is a guide to finding your Swedish ancestors through Swedish church records.
