Otto and Johanna Martini family ~ 1910Picture courtesy of Ray Martin

The purpose of this blog is to have a place to record the research findings for the Otto Martini and Johanna “Hanna” Gustafsdotter family including stories from their descendants, and genealogical information about their ancestors and their descendants. Otto and Johanna both immigrated to the United States from Sweden in the early 1880s and were married in Riverside, Riverside, California in 1886. I am their great-great granddaughter thru their son Paul Martin, his son Raymond Charles Martin, and his daughter Judy Lynn Martin Reeves. I have always been close to my Grandpa (Raymond Charles) Martin who taught me how to drive, fish and do many other things. Growing up I was the oldest granddaughter and so I got to go on many trips with my grandparents. My great-grandpa Paul died before I was born so I never had the opportunity of knowing him.

I am a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints which teaches and believes that families are eternal. Naturally if the family is eternal, I feel, we need to know who is included in that family beyond our immediate families. It is thru family history work that we connect to our ancestor. I have a great love for my ancestors which has been fueled by knowing all of my grandparents and five of my great-grandparents who all treated me like I was the apple of their eye. My concentration for the past several years has been the Martini Family as there were many dead ends and lots of descendants to find from the pedigree. This past year has proved fruitful because of the various projects done for my Family History degree which completed the sixth and seventh generations of this family. These are exciting projects for me to share and I am excited to finally have a place to share with my extended family the research I have been doing.  

Notes: The data and picture contained in this post are from Family Search you can click on the names to be taken to their page on Family Search. My grandfather and mother are still living so for their privacy I will not be linking to their profiles on Family Search.