Bror and Gunnel Hedman – War Children with Good Memories
From Historiska nedslag by Ole Granholm.English translation by June Pelo. Siblings Bror and Gunnel Hedman from Karleby traveled in 1941 to Gällinge in Halland, Sweden as…
Emigration
Children of Labor
June Pelo’s information gleaned from: Excerpts from “Children of Labor: A Finnish-American History” & from author, Mayme Sevander’s three books: “They Took My Father”, “Red Exodus”…
Departure of Emigrants
Written by K. A. JärviSubmitted by June Pelo This is an interesting description of events in the late 1800’s as emigrants waited to board their ship…
Ellis Island
Excerpted from “Ellis Island” by B. Colin HamblinBy June Pelo Ellis Island is a place of names. Here millions of immigrants called out theirs for the…
Charly Backa – Bäckman
By June Pelo. Folke Johansson of Karleby, Finland, asked for help in locating information of his grandmother’s brother’s children in America. Matts Leander Mattsson Backa-Bäckman, was…
Albert Båsk
By Rainer Långstedt, Spencer, NY.Norden, 13 Aug. 2009. Translated by June Pelo. Albert Båsk, as of 2009, lived in Van Etten, New York. He said his life…
Alexander Larsson Warg/Wargstrom (1847-1906)
By June Pelo My grandfather, Alexander Larsson Warg/Wargstrom, was born to Swedish-speaking parents, Lars Mattsson Warg and Brita Magdalena Eriksdotter Kallis in Karleby parish, part of…
Back Home Again
By Donald Widjeskog.Norden, 30 May 2010.English translation by June Pelo. When the cold winter is a mere memory, we all set our sights on the coming…
The Remarkable Adaptability of Gustav Wilson
Gustav Wilson arrived in Oregon in 1852. According to the records now available Gustav was the first Swedish Finn to settle in Oregon. Of course as…
Absentee Voting for Finnish Expats
Finland views their citizens living abroad a valuable resource and strive to foster a cooperative relationship with expatriates. This is why the Finnish Expatriate Parliament (FEP)…
The Diary of Hanna Asp—Part One
Hanna Asp was the daughter of Anders and Maria Asp (Aspnäs in Finland). Hanna immigrated to the United States in 1888 with her family from Pedersöre,…
A Lady Traveling Steerage
The following was written by Mrs. Sadakichi Bartmann, traveling from New York to Paris, and was published in the Boston Evening Transcript on December 21, 1892. Thank…
