I had a nice find today in my family history. My 5th great-grandmother Anna Andersdotter Söder Ena (1746-1823) had a twin brother named Anders!
Anna and Anders Söder Ena are not the first twins I have discovered among my ancestors, but this is the first twins of my Finnish ancestors to live a long life. Anna lived 76 years, and her brother Anders Andersson Söder Ena (1746-1828) lived 81 years!
I was afraid that Anders had a short life and no children, but he didn't! He married and Anders and his wife Anna Davidsdotter (born 1754) had nine children.
It looks like I will be working on twin brother Anders' family as the current part of my family history, gathering and documenting his descendants. It would be nice if I could hope to search for information newer than 1860 on HisKi Project, but that's as far as that website goes for church records from Evijärvi, where they probably spent their whole lives.
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