Inside every f.a.t girl there's a skinny girl and a whole lot of chocolate; this blog is dedicated to my erratic attempts to set the skinny girl free (consisting mainly of walking up hills, and stopping to look at things along the way.)
Occasionally, I may rant.
Saturday, 8 November 2003
Scandinavian heritage
It's official, I'm one-eighth Swedish.  I've known for many years that my great-grandfather came from either Sweden or Finland, but today I received my grandmother's birth registration details and found out more about him. His name was Simon Hanson and he was born in Gothenburg in about 1863. I don't yet know when he came to New Zealand, but he married in Temuka, South Canterbury, in 1898.
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