Hi, I've checked the Swedish emigration records on Ancestry, as well as a wild card search in the Swedish Census Records and found nothing. That doesn't mean that someone with the emigration CDs won't. Here are some things to be aware of. The year of birth on the 1900 US Census is notoriously 1 yr off. When emigrants used patronymics, it was usually the father's patronymic following the US tradition of keeping the father's surname, most likely Eriksson/Ericsson and not Erickson. The name Bolander may have been adopted after he emigrated and bears no relationship to the family in Sweden. If you haven't already, you should get a copy of his death certificate since it may contain his parents names as well as a complete date of birth. You should also be able to get actual copies off his application for citizenship which will likely identify place and date of birth and parent's names. Fold3 has images of those apps. I found my husband's Ukrainian grandfather's app there. You have two obstacles to overcome...correct name at birth and complete date of birth, and you may have to do some old fashioned research. On 7/3/2014 6:08 PM, Ruth Youngquist wrote: > Peter Erickson Bolander was born March, 1865 in Sweden. His first child was supposedly born in Escanaba, Michigan in December, 1890. He filed his Declaration of Intention in Escanaba in April, 1890. He then settled in Two Harbors, Lake County, Minnesota. He was naturalized in Two Harbors in April 1897. He is listed in Two Harbors with family in the 1895 Minnesota State Census. According to the 1900 US census for Two Harbors Peter Bolander immigrated in 1888. The census gives his birth date and states that he married in 1888. He married Anna Elizabeth Liljegren, born 1869 in Ljuder, Kronobergs, Sweden. (Her ancestry has been traced.) In the passenger list from Goteborg, Sweden in 1888 Anna is listed as a single woman, with destination Escanaba, Michigan. Her brother had settled there earlier. > Where in Sweden was Peter Erickson Bolander born? Where did he and Anna Liljegren marry in 1888? Their marriage was not found in Michigan records. They did not marry in Sweden. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > -- Lo in Flo Lois Kälander Casson Pensacola, Florida USA