Vörå Descendant Finds His Roots
By Maria Holmström, Helsingfors for Norden, 2 March 2000. Submitted by June Pelo. Most Finlanders have some relatives in the US. While some have had contact with…
Emigration
Emigrant Nabb-Kalle on a Visit to Terjärv
Norden Newspaper, 6 September 2001. Translated by June Pelo Finland has traditionally been a country from which people emigrated. Over a million Finlanders moved to other…
Finnish Fishermen of Lake Superior
From The Finnish American Reporter, January 1997, by Mike Roinila.June Pelo. It is believed that the earliest European fishermen began to fish on the Ontario side…
Farming in North Dakota – Late 1800s & Early 1990s
By Börje Prest, Karlebynejdan No. 40, 2008.English translation by June Pelo. At the beginning of the 1800’s the American country paid a large sum to the…
Fishing Families on Isle Royale, Minnesota
Excerpts from “Once Upon An Isle” by Howard Sivertson. June Pelo. From the mid-1800’s until 1955, Scandinavian immigrants settled on Isle Royale, an island 52 miles…
Living on the Island
This story includes many of the details written in Finn Town and Swede Finns in Mason County, MI. By Leonore P. Williams; The Ludington Daily News,…
Finn Town – Ludington, Michigan
This story includes many of the same details as are in the stories, Swede-Finns in Mason County, Michigan and Living on the Island. From Ludington Daily…
Swede-Finns in Mason County, Michigan
This story includes many of the details recorded in the book titled, ‘Finn Town and Living on the Island’ by Evert Johnson, January 1980.(Evert Johnson’s parents…
White Cloud’s Swedetown
By Velma F. Matson. January 28, 1986June Pelo See note from June Pelo about Velm F. Matson’s Swedish Finn connections at the end of this story.…
Emigrants to Australia
By Hilding Widjeskog “Storbacka and Manderbacka. Groups of Houses in Småbonders”June Pelo It was in 1924. Times were hard and they weren’t getting any better for…
Finns Abroad
Olavi Koivukangas, Director, Institute of Migration Studies, Åbo. Extracted from “Finland, a Cultural Encyclopedia”. Translated by June Pelo. The greatest emigration among Finns has been to…
Axel Andersson Pelo – 1875 -1903
By June Pelo. Axel Pelo was my father’s uncle who emigrated from Finland to Ashland, WI and married there in 1900 to Brita Johanna Jakobsdotter Nyberg-Lågland,…
