Philip Wik
ASIN: B013RKIKT2
Publisher: A Blue Kitten Book
Pages: 186
This book is the story of my ancestor’s immigration to Australia, my parent's work in China, and my family’s history to the year 2000.
The first volume of Our Story describes my Swedish ancestry and the pioneering days in the United States Midwest. I also include in Prairie Cookbook and Memories more recollections from those on my dad’s side. The Australian side of the family is rich in primary material with letters, diaries, news clippings, articles, a 68-page Reminiscences from Eliza Ann Dart (written about 1940), and the 176-page book Happenings: Historic, Heroic, and Hereditary by Dr. Harold W. Dart (written about 1975). Few families have such a richly documented history that brings to life two great migrations from Europe, the Irish migration to Australia in the mid-nineteenth century and the northern European migration of the late nineteenth century to the Midwestern United ...