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