I am forwarding this note from my neice, Jill, who is the genealogist @ Swenson Center, Augustana College, Rock Island, IL. ************************************************************************ **** If the Galesburg Public Library . doesn't have it, we have it on microfilm. This page explains what we have and how to request it via interlibrary loan: http://www.augustana.edu/administration/swenson/Newspapers/ NewspaperGuideQry_1.html Jill ********************************************* good luck!! ginny seaholm ************************************************************************ original message: > I was just looking to find some Swedish relatives on a site, and > looking through some immigrant history, and I thought this was a neat "fact". > Also, Is there any possibility that this paper has been put on > Microfilm > or something at the Library?? > The first Swedish-language newspaper, HEMLANDET, was issued in > Galesburg, Ill., in 1855. > Chris