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A Student's Guide to Scandinavian American Genealogy -

(Book - Amazon.com) : This major contribution to young adult genealogy studies helps create ethnic pride, self-esteem, and awareness of the extraordinary accomplishments each ethnic group has brought to the American experience. While using the volumes in this series, young adults experience a uniquely personalized opportunity to practice the historians craft as they learn how to collect data, obtain and evaluate documents and sources, use the latest electronic tools for researching, and conduct and record eyewitness accounts of historical events in family life. The volumes carefully describe the challenges unique to researching each ethnic group or region. Also, each book in the series provides basic historical and cultural background information.
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Beginning Danish Research - (Book - Amazon.com) -

Beginning Norwegian Research - (Book - Amazon.com) -

Forteckning Over Emigranter Fran Ostergotland (Sweden) - (Database Online - WorlVitalRecords.com) : This list of emigrants from 1851-60 contains the names of all heads of households and single persons that applied for passports at the county government office in Linkoping, Sweden. The passport journals were later copied in 1856 and 1861 and the copies sent to the Tabellverket in Stockholm. This list is a transcription from the microfilm of the copies in Tabellverket. This list also provides the emigration parish for about 800 persons, and knowing that, it is in most cases possible to connect the emigrant with the church records, and so find his or her origin. Requires payment. -

Gathering the Family -

(Book - Amazon.com) : Memoirs provide a locus of discovery for both reader and author. In Gathering the Family William Holtz traces his family history from Finnish immigrant grandparents who spoke no English through his own poverty-stricken, troubled upbringing. Through his exploration of memories, family photographs, and stories, Holtz illuminates his questions about those who gave him life and shaped him: a handsome but doomed father, an overworked mother, and an alcoholic brother whose greatest success seemed to occur at his death. Not only is this a poignant story of a man's life and reflections, but it also serves as a model for those who are thinking about mapping their families' passages.

Guide to Swedish American Archival and Manuscript Sources in the United States - (Book - Amazon.com) -

Norwegian Connections - From Arctic Fjord to American Prairie - (Book - Genealogical.com) : After providing the reader with ample background on the history of Norwegian immigration, Mrs. Jacobson turns to her principal objective: to record the genealogies of families from the Arctic fjords. In this context, she sheds light upon the unusual naming practices that make identifying Norwegian ancestors difficult. -

Scandinavian Girl and Boy Paper Dolls -

(Book - Amazon.com) : 2 dolls, 32 traditional, accurately detailed folk costumes. Full-color renderings of a Norwegian bridal ensemble, Finnish Lapp outfits with colorful "four winds" hats, Swedish Lapp summer garments, Danish bridal apparel with a floral crown, an Icelandic folk-dancing costume, and more. Includes map showing countries and regions represented.
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Scandinavian Immigrants in New York, 1630-1674 - (Book - Genealogical.com) : This is a collection of biographical articles on Norwegian, Danish, and Swedish immigrants who settled in New York between 1630 and 1674. The biographies are based on ship passenger lists, parish records, church records, court records, and legal documents, and include information such as dates of birth, places of origin, marriages, names of children, types of occupation, and references to sources. Also contained in the book are appendices on Scandinavians in (1) Mexico and South America, 1532-1640, (2) Canada, 1619-1620, and (3) New York in the 18th century, and there is a fourth appendix on German immigrants in New York between 1630 and 1674. -

Swedes in Moline, Illinois 1847-2002 - (Book - Amazon.com) : Thousands of Swedes settled in Moline, Illinois, from the late 1840s through the 1920s. For many years they made up the largest ethnic group in the city. They came to work in the plow factories and to join relatives who were here before them. Lilly Setterdahl has drawn from many different sources and brought forward a mosaic of facts and photographs. The reader will learn about the environment facing the new immigrants, how they conquered the challenges of adapting to another culture and language to become Americans and, in many cases, significant contributors to society.
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The Book of Settlements: Landnamabok -

(Book - Amazon.com) : Iceland was the last country in Europe to become inhabited, and we know more about the beginnings and early history of Icelandic society than we do of any other in the Old World. This world was vividly recounted in The Book of Settlements, first compiled by the first Icelandic historians in the thirteenth century. It describes in detail individuals and daily life during the Icelandic Age of Settlement.
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The Census of the Swedes on the Delaware, 1693 - Family History of the Swedish Lutheran Church Members Residing in Pennsylvania, Delaware, West New Jersey -

The Delaware Finns Or The First Permanent Settlements in Pennsylvania, Delaware, West New Jersey and Eastern Part of Maryland - In this pioneering work, E. A. Louhi recounts the various expeditions of Finns to Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, and, to a lesser extent, the Elk and South Rivers in Maryland throughout the colonial period. Finns appeared for the first time among the passengers on the third expedition to New Sweden in July 1641--at a time when the Swedish government was finding it increasingly difficult to colonize its short-lived empire in the New World. The author identifies many of the Finnish passengers by name, occupation (soldier, farmer, prisoner, etc.), destination (Christina in Delaware, for example), and in some instances by place of origin in Finland. Succeeding chapters enumerate the Finnish participation in subsequent Swedish-sponsored expeditions through the tenth and final one of 1652-54. Later chapters document the arrival of independently financed Finnish expeditions and the growth of the Finnish communities on the Delaware under Swedish administration, through the period of Dutch control, and finally under English hegemony when, as late as 1760, Finnish churches numbered 3,000 members in the American colonies. Anyone possessing Finnish ancestors or an interest in Finnish pioneers and places of settlement in colonial North America need look no further for the starting point of their research. -

The Swedish Settlements on the Delaware, 1638-1664 - Two Volumes - (Books - Genealogical.com) : The Swedish Settlements on the Delaware is a scholarly and exhaustive treatment of New Sweden on the Delaware. Of greatest genealogical import, nearly 100 pages of Appendices are devoted to brief biographies, including considerable genealogical data, of prominent early settlers who were instrumental in the settlement of New Sweden; lists of officers, soldiers, servants and settlers, 1638-1656, with information as to occupation, origin, date of arrival, and so forth; various documents and translations of documents; and a listing of the expeditions, 1637-1656. -