Family album

As is the case with most Americans, my family came from someplace else, actually several places. As you will see, the following are not art pieces, just photographs.

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Pagaard is a Danish name, so I begin with Denmark.

Pagaard farm

Great, great grandparents and great grandparents

Grandfather Bertel Pagaard and his siblings

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As a very young man my Danish grandfather immigrated to the U.S., where he married the daughter of German immigrants.

Grandmother Pauline Seifert Pagaard
and her family

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Within a few years my grandparents left the U.S. for Swaziland, where they spent the rest of their lives.

The most beautiful song in the world, "Nkosi, Sikelel' iAfrika"

Starting life in Swaziland

My father and his siblings in Swaziland

Teaching staff at Mhlosheni; Grandfather with King Sobuza II and a Swazi chief; Dr Busa Xaba and family

The new Pagaard family

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While many in his family continued working abroad, my father returned to the U.S.

My father's siblings with Mini-Me as center-piece

Terence PagardTerry's memoire of Mhlosheni

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