As a beginning genealogist I begin by sending for birth, marriage, and death certificates. I know Bertha’s father, John Peter Benson, was a painter and fell from scaffolding. He also lived in Worcester, Massachusetts.
I send a letter to the Massachusetts archives to obtain his death certificate. I had been told he died in 1915. On the death certificate lists his birthplace as Sweden, father is John Benson born in Sweden, and his mother is unknown but born in Sweden.
