Category: Sweden
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Monday July 13, 1896
These are notes made at Ellis Island when the S/S Island, the ship that had left Göteborg on June 23, 1896, arrived. Passengers are listed as having embarked at Fredrikshavn on the Danish coast across from Göteborg, but we know that some of them had been on the ship since Göteborg. The Swedish passengers are at…
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From DNA land
Another attempt at describing my ancestry based on DNA. There is a portion of Eastern European that’s making me increasingly curious.
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Monday June 22, 1896
This is the ship manifest listing the names of those traveling from Göteborg to New York on June 23, 1896 on the S/S Island. One of the passengers was Elna G. Nilson from Österåker, Södermanland. Elna was my grandfather’s younger sister. Before emigrating she had been working as a maid on a farm in Österåker.…
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