OmahaMom@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 9/28/98 8:24:10 AM Central Daylight Time, > d_cisco@jccarter.com writes: > > > NEBRRoots-L@rootsweb.com > Next questions for Dick: do you know if he was Swedish? do you know > from a > census when he came to the US? > > If Swedish, the parishes were required to send in annual reports of > who left > their parish headed for where. I found a step-grandmother that way > when all I > knew was that she was from Blekinge, and a year she came over. These > records > are available on microfilm from the LDS Family History Centers. If > all you > have is a year, it might take you awhile to weed through the records, > but it > is possible. > > If you know from the census that he was naturalized, try to get the > Declaration of Intent (First papers) on his citizenship. They usually > will > give a lot of information on where an immigrant was from, etc. (Not > the > actual granting of citizenship...which is nice for sentiment, but > usually > gives little or no genealogical data.) > > There are quite a few possibilities here. I haven't done Danish or > very much > Norwegian to know if there are similar records for those countries, > but there > may be for Norway because Sweden ruled Norway for awhile. > Karen Karen: Thanks for the tips. Yes he was definitely Swedish. I will try the LDS approach first. Dick