Stanley Nelson’s Search For Relatives
This article originated in the NORDEN newspaper, 31 August 2000. Translated by June Pelo. Nine-year old Erik Westerholm sat on a plane from Yttermark to America where he lived in… Read More
This article originated in the NORDEN newspaper, 31 August 2000. Translated by June Pelo. Nine-year old Erik Westerholm sat on a plane from Yttermark to America where he lived in… Read More
Written by Hugo Theodor Nilsson Sandkulla. Submitted to June Pelo by Hugo’s granddaughter, Kristin Nelson. The time came now, for American fever set into my way of thinking and I… Read More
By Ole Granholm, Österbottningen 31 July 1965. English translation by June Pelo. Oil king John D. Rockefeller employed over 20 servants in his home in the country and among those… Read More
Excerpted from “Separation and Self-Sufficiency” by Janet Rasmussen. Translated by June Pelo. This is a story of immigrants from Scandinavia. An immigrant from Nås, Sweden to the United States in… Read More
NORDEN, 14 Sep 2000. Translated by June Pelo. A village with an odd name of Velkmoss in old Pörtom has witnessed two important news events in Finland in one week.… Read More
By Ole Granholm, Österbottningen newspaper, 2 Feb 2003.Translated by June Pelo. A search of the church archives reveals that 1,800 Terjärv residents emigrated to the United States, Canada, and Australia.… Read More
Excerpts from “Liberty” by Leslie Allen.Submitted by June Pelo. I wrote about Ellis Island earlier in the year, and some readers have expressed an interest in knowing more about events… Read More
From Karlebynejden, Nr. 34, 2002.Translated by June Pelo. Declared dead as of 1.1.1915: Haga, Artur Vilhelm, b. 4.7.1884 Declared dead as of 1.1.1929: Andersson, Anna Lisa, b. 17.08.1848 Borg,… Read More
Written by Rita Nordström for the Norden Newspaper 20 Nov 1997. Translated by June Pelo. At the end of September [1997] the Ådjers family in Lappfjärd received a surprise welcome visit… Read More
Assembled by Elof Sänkas, relative of Alma & Oscar Kamb.From Närpes Tidning 17 Jan 1976 & Norden 17 Mar 2005.Translated by June Pelo. If a Närpes resident took an… Read More