April 2026
Greetings Vasa Sisters and Brothers, It’s been about 7 years since I posted a reminder that we collect genealogical information on our Vasa siblings. There’s a generic form online at www.vasaarchives.org/documents. While this document collects names and dates, it does not collect family stories, and we welcome this additional information as it will be a great benefit to future researchers. Send us stories about your great-grandparents, grandparents, parents, kids, or grandkid


Dec 2025
Greetings Vasa Sisters and Brothers, I’m sitting in the office this frosty Lucia night enjoying the wonderful holiday season. Thinking back to my first Lucia night in Bishop Hill. We had several people say they had never seen the Vasa National Archive open on Lucia. It was a great way to start my first year in Bishop Hill. We had a fairly successful year this year. We received a grant from the Geneseo Community Foundation for an intern to scan our small GL convention books an










