Algot G. Stenberg index of ancestral registers
Scope and Content
Index cards of ancestral registers compiled by Algot G. Stenberg. It appears that these index cards relate to the registers listed as Related Material, but the cards do not indicate which register they relate to.
Dates
- undated
Language of Materials
The records are in English.
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Biographical Note
Algot G. Stenberg was born in Blekinge, Sweden in 1873. He moved to the United States when he was about 19 years old. Stenberg was a selectman for the town of Newington from 1920 to 1922 and also the founder of that town's volunteer fire department.
Stenberg was widely known as a genealogist and had compiled the family histories of such Connecticut families as James Lee Loomis, Austin D. Barney and John F. Rolfe. Many of his genealogical research books were donated to the Connecticut State Library. After a short illness, he died on Saturday June 17, 1950 at the age of 77.
Source: "Stenberg, 77, Dies, Former Selectman." Hartford Courant, 1950 June 18, B8.
Extent
.50 cubic feet
Abstract
Index cards of ancestral registers compiled by Algot G. Stenberg.
- Card indexes Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Connecticut -- Genealogy Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Title
- RG 074:042, Algot G. Stenberg Index of Ancestral Registers
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Connecticut State Library staff.
- Date
- 2009
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Connecticut State Library Repository
