This package includes all Peter Craig’s annotated family group sheets for the first three generations of the John Friend branch of the Nils Larsson Frände (Friend) family.  It is 708 pages long and contains materials relating to Nicholas Friend (~1700-after 1737); his father John Friend (~1667-1738) m. Sarah Coleman (-1739); grandparents Nils Larsson Frände (after 1616-1686) m. Annica Andersdotter (~1638-1724) and Henrick Coleman (-by 1697) m. Anna Hendricksdotter; and great grandparents Anders Anderson the Finn and Christina Goolbrant.  Also included is all relevant correspondence about John Friend, the founder of Friendsville, Maryland.

It also contains a Dictionary (MS Word doc) of the abbreviations used by Peter Craig for many of the references in his family group sheets.

You may view and print, but not copy, the first page for free.  To make the image of the first page of the package bigger, click on it and then adjust at the upper left corner.  The entire set of group sheets may be downloaded up to two times for a price of $99 using PayPal.

After paying, you will find the download button by clicking of Return to Craig Collection which takes you back to the Checkout page, and/or by checking your email for the Craig Collection’s Download Notice.

Using Adobe’s free Reader software or Adobe Acrobat (which you have downloaded from adobe.com, opened and on cue designated as the default for opening PDFs), you will be able to key word search and print this indelibly watermarked read-only PDF once it is downloaded.  The search will highlight the approximate location(s) on the page(s) where the key word appears.  Some “hits” may be missed due to OCR errors.

For help regarding: using this process contact craigcollection@colonialswedes.net; Swedish colonial genealogy contact scsgenealogist@icloud.com; Swedish Colonial Society new membership and preparing forefather applications contact registrar@colonialswedes.net.

These packages were prepared by SCS Genealogist Ron Beatty for those who want to see all Peter Craig’s detail around their earliest Swedish colonial ancestors.