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Research in Other Countries => Europe => Topic started by: angusmacg on Saturday 11 September 10 13:02 BST (UK)
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I am new to searching on my Swedish side and have been having a hard time finding information online for my great great grandparents.
Carl Julius Olsson (b. 12/1869 SWEDEN)
Maria Louise (Louisa) Nilson (Nelson) (b. 9/2/1867 SWEDEN)
Both Carl and Maria show up on the 1900 US Census in Worcester, MA. Carl emigrated in 1884. They have 4 children: Carl Julius Axel, Arthur Victor, Walter Clarence (great grandfather), and Violet Louise.
Any information would be great.
Craig
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There's a Danish online passenger database which shows over 3,000 Olsson's departed from that country and I see from the first entries I looked at that most came from Sverige (Sweden). Here is the search page:
http://www.emiarch.dk/search.php3?l=en
You need to read the Information page (see tab at top of that page) to discover whether towns of origin were recorded in the time span you're searching.
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It might help if you can find their marriage presumably in the States to find out their father's names as this will help locate them in Sweden as both their names are not uncommon. Have you used pilot family search? http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=home. However it is not necessarily complete. There is a Carl Julius Olsson born 22 Dec 1869 in Brakne-Hoby, Blekinge, Sweden to parents Mathias Olsen and Mathilda Carlsdatter.
Have you looked at this thread http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,481569.0.html
I've more experience in looking Norwegian records, but I've always found it helpful to use the Norwegian forums to ask for help. I think there are Swedish equivalents.
Kaysii
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There's a Danish online passenger database which shows over 3,000 Olsson's departed from that country and I see from the first entries I looked at that most came from Sverige (Sweden). Here is the search page:
http://www.emiarch.dk/search.php3?l=en
You need to read the Information page (see tab at top of that page) to discover whether towns of origin were recorded in the time span you're searching.
Rena, Thank you. I have bookmarked the site for future use. I found the 3000+ Olsson's but upon narrowing the search criteria there were no matches. Though the information I currently have may be inaccurate it is all I have to go on for now.
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It might help if you can find their marriage presumably in the States to find out their father's names as this will help locate them in Sweden as both their names are not uncommon. Have you used pilot family search? http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=home. However it is not necessarily complete. There is a Carl Julius Olsson born 22 Dec 1869 in Brakne-Hoby, Blekinge, Sweden to parents Mathias Olsen and Mathilda Carlsdatter.
Have you looked at this thread http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php/topic,481569.0.html
I've more experience in looking Norwegian records, but I've always found it helpful to use the Norwegian forums to ask for help. I think there are Swedish equivalents.
Kaysii
Kaysii, Thank you very much. The Carl Julius you found could very well be the one I am looking for. The new Family Search is an improvement. I much prefer easy to navigate and intuitive interfaces. I have also bookmarked the thread you mentioned and will follow through with that.
Craig
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Hi Craig
If you haven't tried it yet, "Genforum" (Swedish section) has a lot of enthusiastic helpers, who may be able to locate emigration details.
"Genline", a pay site, carries a large portion of Swedens BMD records. The site details the extent of their records in terms of Counties & Parishes. These are based on the LDS Church films.
Cheers, Les
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Hi Craig
If you haven't tried it yet, "Genforum" (Swedish section) has a lot of enthusiastic helpers, who may be able to locate emigration details.
"Genline", a pay site, carries a large portion of Swedens BMD records. The site details the extent of their records in terms of Counties & Parishes. These are based on the LDS Church films.
Cheers, Les
Les, Thank you. I plan on checking out GenForum over the weekend. I'm not deep enough in to join the pay sites as of yet. But I'm sure I will at some point.
Craig
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I am new to searching on my Swedish side and have been having a hard time finding information online for my great great grandparents.
Carl Julius Olsson (b. 12/1869 SWEDEN)
Maria Louise (Louisa) Nilson (Nelson) (b. 9/2/1867 SWEDEN)
Both Carl and Maria show up on the 1900 US Census in Worcester, MA. Carl emigrated in 1884. They have 4 children: Carl Julius Axel, Arthur Victor, Walter Clarence (great grandfather), and Violet Louise.
Any information would be great.
Craig
Further research has uncovered that Carl's parents are Olaf Magnusson and Sophie (maiden name unknown). Olaf was born 10/28/1838 in Nor, Varmland, Sweden. Olaf's parents were Magnus Mansson and Stina Olofsdotter.
Maria/Murial Nilson/Nilsdotter was born in Edsvalla, Nor, Sweden and her parents are Nils Svenson and Louisa (maiden name unknown)
Carl emigrated in 1884 from Karlstad (#0871884025). I plan on getting to the local library and accessing Genline at some point but if anyone is looking for something to do...
I plan on researching more into both Carl and Maria's ancestors while trying to understand the naming convention of the locations in Sweden.
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Good to hear you have been able to progress. Did you manage to get your information when the Swedish digital archives had a free access offer for last weekend? http://www.arkivdigital.net/
It is worth looking at these sites from time to time to find out when they have a freebie like this.
kaysii
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Good to hear you have been able to progress. Did you manage to get your information when the Swedish digital archives had a free access offer for last weekend? http://www.arkivdigital.net/
It is worth looking at these sites from time to time to find out when they have a freebie like this.
kaysii
No I didn't know they had a free trial. I was able to get this information from Genline a month or so ago and need to get back to follow-up. I forgot about the site you mentioned but it is now bookmarked and I registered for the newsletter.
Craig
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Hi Craig
You may have found them by now. This Olof has the same birth date as your Olof 28 Oct 1838.
1880:
Magnusson, Olof b.1838 - Father
Andersdotter, Anna Sofia b.1843 - Mother
Karl Julius b. 18 Dec 1864 in Nor
Sofia Charlotta b.1866
Matilda b.1871
Johan Fredrik b.1874
Hanna Maria b.1876
Karl went to USA Nov 1884
Sofia went to USA May 1882
The mother died in 1881 and the rest of the family also moved to USA in May 1886.
Ian
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Ian,
Thank you for following up. I was able to find some of the information you provided already.
I did not know that the rest of the family emigrated along with Olaf. I will have to do some digging on that front to find out where they ended up. I know Olaf and Karl began their life in America in Worcester MA (which is where I currently live). I would guess that the others also lived in the area.
I also have down that Johan Frederick died 30 Mar 1884 at age 10. I wonder if that in addition to Anna's death in 1881 (which I knew occurred before 1900 but not an exact year) spurred them to leave Sweden?
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Anna Sofia Andersdotter died 20 March 1881 and buried 27 March. No cause of death recorded.
Ian
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To get you started with Olof and family to USA:
He left with Hannah and Mathilda and they travelled together.
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Thank you!