Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Abigail Church—East Tawas, Michigan
By June Pelo; based on the 75th Anniversary Program of the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Abigail Church; 1961. An organizational meeting took place June 20, 1886 with…
Emigration
Aina Carlson Lived in Two Worlds—Närpes & Florida
By Bjarne Smeds, Norden, 7 Aug 2003. Translated by June Pelo.Photo by Karl Alfred Nyström, courtesy of The Society of Swedish Literature in Finland. [As of…
Gold Miners from Finland
By June Pelo.Photo courtesy of NARA. In 1895 a young man from Karleby, Finland traveled to America to search for gold and strike it rich. His…
Finnholms in Washington State
By Gösta Svenfelt in Suomi-USA, Jan 2005. Translated by June Pelo.Photo by Blazeblaze, CC BY SA 2.5. For nearly 100 years, when emigration from Finland was greatest, the…
Hangö Remembers the Epoch When Emigrants Traveled to America
Birgitta Ekström and archivist Marketta Wall have put together a living history about an important epoch in the city’s history. Submitted by June Pelo. Image courtesy…
I Remember
By Marge Mattsson Beaver. Marge Mattsson Beaver wrote this about her parents, Johan Mattsson, 1875-1957, married to Sofia Abrahamsdotter Bastubacka-Bast, 1878-1958. Johan was from Esse, Finland…
Finnish Immigrant Farm Women in NE Minnesota
Previous title of this article submitted by June Pelo: ‘Finnish Immigration to North America and Northeastern Minnesota’. It is based on the works of JoAnn Hanson-Stone,…
Nabba Village, Terjärv Parish
By Ole Granholm, Österbottningen, 2004. Translated by June Pelo.Jan Ole Björkbacka writes about his home village of Nabba The year is 1900. It is midsummer and…
Johan Richard Nyström
By June Pelo. Several months ago I received an e-mail request from a family in Finland, for help in finding descendants of their relative Johan Richard…
The Kankkonen Brothers in Astoria, Oregon
Excerpts from “Egen lyckas smed” by K-G Olin.English translation by June Pelo. There was a gloomy mood in Astoria, Oregon in the spring of 1896. The…
Erik Sigurd Lärka
Written by Erik Nix for the Norden, March 5, 2009. Translated into English by June Pelo. Erik Sigurd Lärka was born in Gottböle, Närpes, Finland on…
Erik Lindholm – On a Visit to His Homeland After 68 Years in America
This story was written by Mr. Jimson for a Swedish Finn newspaper and then translated by June Pelo. In 1902 crofter’s son Erik Lindholm from Bredvik…
