Saturday, May 22, 2010

look up your Swedish roots

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_Emigrant_Institute (links at bottom of article include "how to" sections). Funding is threatened for the host building of the SEI, so it may be mothballed or closed in August 2010.

links/references from the wikip article include:

^ Your Swedish Roots: A Step by Step Handbook (by Per Clemensson and Kjell Andersson, Ancestry Publishing, 2004)
^ Tracing Your Swedish Ancestry http://www.explorenorth.com/library/history/tracingyourswedishancestry.pdf
^ The House of Emigrants http://www.visitsweden.com/sweden/Sweden-Facts/Worth-knowing-about-Sweden/Heritage/
^ The Emigrants From Småland, Sweden. The American Dream (by Ken Sawyer. July, 1999) http://fantasticsweden.co.uk/emigrants/theemigrantsfromsmalandsweden.pdf


external links

Official Website
A Review of Swedish Emigration to America

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