I used The Minnesota Historical Society website extensively when I first began researching Sweere and Dykhoff. Their Minnesota Death Certificate Index supplied sources for many of our Minnesota ancestors. I used it again last night to look up a few specific death dates while I was working on the Find A Grave memorials I mentioned in the last post.
They have now added the Minnesota Birth Certificate Index. With that, I was able to record all the middle names of Ernest and Grace Riddering’s children except their first born daughter, Martina.
These birth certificates often show the mother’s maiden name. The birth Certificates of sons John and Theodore Riddering show a curious misspelling of “Sweere” which may indicate the Dutch pronunciation of our Sweere surname. John’s mother is shown as “SVEERE” and Theodores mother is shown as “SEVEERE”.