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| September 2024 Meeting of the Ephraim Camp of the Daughters of the Utah Pioneers |
I soon learned that the locals like to ask you about your people--and they do not mean your parents. They want to know who your great, great grandparents are.
Scandinavian Heritage
This area was settled for years by Native Americans, but Ephraim as well as all of Sanpete County focus a lot on the immigrants who arrived primarily from Scandinavia in the 1850s. During the weekend of Memorial Day, this town holds a Scandinavian Days Festival, and people want to ask if your ancestors came from Norway, Sweden, Finland, or Denmark. I hear less about Iceland, but that is a Scandinavian country, too.
I have some relatives from Copenhagen, but none of them ended up in Sanpete County.
Daughters of Utah Pioneers
