My name is Becky Niedzielski.  I was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the oldest of nine children.  I have three grown children, who have given me ten beautiful grandchildren.  While I enjoy visiting them, they are scattered around MN and IA, and have their own lives.  So, I moved to northern Pine County in 2001. I am now retired leaving me lots of time to play with my family tree.

     I enjoyed learning about my maternal family history in great detail during the summer of 2007 with my aunt.  She has been working on her "tree" for over 20 years.  Surnames include: Swenson, Westering, and Johnson - all traced back to Sweden; Johnson, Timrud - traced back to Norway; Darr and Carlin.

     My father's side is in much more need of my time and patience: Niedzielski (Nidjelske...) and Ziwicki (Zywicki, Zywicke, etc) who go back to Poland and Germany.

  I also am volunteering some of my time towards transcribing cemeteries in this area.  There is a huge amount of written information out there just crumbling away in file drawers.  The mission is to get the family "stories" reconciled and preserved forever on the US genealogy website which has free access world-wide.