Alsike, Sweden is the home of my great-great grandparents on my mother's side. (Ruby and Faye's great grandparents, and Grandma (Violet) Nielsen's grandparents).
There is not much left of the old town of Alsike, since it has become more of a suburban arrea of nearby Uppsala, a larger city.
But we found the Alsike Church, a beautiful medival church built in the 1300s where my 2nd-grat grandparents were married!!! This is Anders Mattson (Anderson) and Johanna Margarita Eriksson (or Errson) (Pehrson). How do we know? Aunt Mabel Anderson of Manti (she is really Grandma Nielsen's cousin) visited Sweden in the 1960s, meeting some distant relatives and doing some genealogy. She wrote of this church and took some pictures. We were able to find it and it is an amazing place. It is even more amazing to be there and know that this is where they were married.
And even more amazing to think of the sacrifice they made to join the church way back then, only to emigrate to the United States and leave their families behind for the Church!
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