Thanks ENG; been there. Great place. Doug <ENG110@aol.com> wrote in message news:ca.b2a940d.2713a344@aol.com... > Hi, this place did an excellent job on my grandfather. > > If you know about when he immigrated, send a letter to the following address; > > Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center > Augustana College > 639 38th St. > Rock Island, IL 61201-2273 > > or I think by now you can get search request form from the website; > http://viking.augustana.edu/admin/swenson > > They will do a search for $20.00, at least it was that much a couple of years > ago. > > They gave me the name of the ship he sailed from Sweden on, date of birth and > the parish and county he was living in at the time of immigration. They even > gave me the address of the archives that would have the parish record where > he asked permission to immigrate. >