Looking for Swedish origin of Olof Lindstrom b 1863 Värmlands.

Question

I'm trying to trace a Lindstrom line for my niece, and am just striking out with every strategy I try.  This is what I know:  Olof Lindstrom was born in Värmlands county, Sweden on 7 Oct 1863 (according to family Bible), and came to the US in spring of 1889.  I pick up the trail just fine in the US, but I cannot find any trace of the family in Sweden.  One other clue, he had a brother named Markus born 1860, but I am missing the very important info of what Parish or town they came from.
I'm using the Riksarkivet site, and the "person" search in nearly worthless, the only hits I get are for the supposed census that are almost all taken AFTER he has left, and  none of the ones from 1880 seem to be him.  The Värmlands county section contains over 800,000 images, and I looked through several thousand pages by targeting other Lindstrom hits, but no luck yet.  Is there any other name index, or anything else that I'm missing here.  I would appreciate any help, suggestions, or look-up if they are indexed on a pay site.  All I need is parish and I'll be off and running.  Thank-you for any help.

Answer 1

Hello Cliff,

Värmland is where about half of my Swedish ancestors came from. I will try to help you. I will start looking now, and if I find something, I will post it below.

Missy 

Edited: corrected spelling error

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Looks like I may have found him!  Seems he was born in Dalby. I will pull up his actual birth record and include source information in a minute.

Name:	Olof [Olof Olsson]  [Olof Larsson]
Gender:	Man (Male)
Birth Date:	7 okt 1863 (7 Oct 1863)
Birth Place:	Dalby, Värmland, Sverige (Sweden)
Father:	Lars Olsson
Mother:	Karin Marcusdotter

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I am finding records on Ancestry and posting them here, then I will start looking through the Swedish records. This is Olof’s parents in Sweden.

Name:	Lars Olsson Bräcklig
Gender:	Man (Male)
Relationship or Occupation:	Förälder
Birth Date:	16 dec 1819
Birth Place:	Dalby, Sverige (Sweden)
Year Range:	1881 - 1885
Residence :	Dalby, Värmland, Sverige (Sweden)
GID Number:	474.49.57500
Household Members:	Name Relationship Lars Olsson Bräcklig Head Karin Markusdotter Modr Enka (Widow)

His father’s death:

Name:	Lars Olsson
Age:	64
Birth Date:	abt 1820
Death Date:	16 nov 1884
Death Place:	Dalby, Värmland, Sverige (Sweden)
Page Number:	139
GID Number:	474.38.42800

 Olof’s mother:

Name:	Karin Markusdotter
Gender:	Kvinna (Female)
Age:	87
Birth Date:	24 sep 1819
Death Date:	28 jan 1907
Death Place:	Dalby, Värmland, Sverige (Sweden)
GID Number:	474.56.6100

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Birth record (# 96): Dalby, C/9 (1863-1880), bildid: A0019786_00010, page 7 https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/A0019786_00010

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They were in Benteby when Olof was born (here):

Dalby, A I/23 (1863-1865), bildid: A0022181_00115, sida 111 https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/A0022181_00115

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I am following him through time until he leaves Dalby.

Dalby, A I/24 (1866-1870), bildid: C0036863_00132, page 114 https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/C0036863_00132

Dalby, A I/25 (1871-1875), bildid: A0022183_00127, page 114 https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/A0022183_00127

Dalby, A I/26 (1876-1880), bildid: A0021193_00120, page 118 https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/A0021193_00120

Dalby, A I/27 (1881-1885), bildid: A0021194_00116, page 112   https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/A0021194_00116

Dalby, A I/27 (1881-1885), bildid: A0021194_00115, page 111  https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/A0021194_00115

He leaves for America on 1 May 1889.

Dalby, A I/28 (1886-1890), bildid: A0021195_00113, page 109 https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/A0021195_00113

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Also, Olof’s LNAB should be Larsson, not Lindstrom.

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You are quick, thank-you, but I'm not 100% sold yet.  What happened to Lindstrom?  It seemed like it was probably a military name, so I assumed it was passed down from his father, and I expected it to show up in the records.  Am I missing something?  So we have an Olof born on 7 Oct 1863, but wouldn't we expect dozens of Olofs to be born on any given day?  How do we know it's him?  Sorry, I'm new to the Swedish work, I must be missing something.

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I do see a Markus born 1860. so you may be right, but how the heck is someone supposed to be able to find that?

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His parent’s names were on his American death record. His birthdate came from your information. I did a search on Ancestry, then matched them up to the Swedish records. And no, not that many Olof Larsson’s born that day, at all.

Olof probably took Lindstrom in America, but I will look more into that now.

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Hello Cliff,

I have been doing America to Swedish and Swedish research for years. You should check out these pages for Swedish research help:

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Sweden_Genealogy

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Project:Sweden

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I just pulled up Markus fag memorial, and birth matches, so I may a convert.  I still don't don't get why the name change.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/112272123/markus-lindstrom

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Oh, and someone incorrectly linked the fag mems as father & son, but I just requested a correction earlier today.

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He left Sweden as Olof Larsson (# 51):

Dalby, B/3 (1884-1894), bildid: A0021198_00023 https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/A0021198_00023

I am looking for the name change now.

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Well, the name change and the lack of Ancestry access would have likely made it virtually impossible for me to ever find the trail.  Huge Thank-You for the breakthrough, and the links.

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I agree with you, Cliff. Ancestry made it a LOT easier to find him. I am still looking for where the name changed.

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In 1895, he was actually living with his brother, Marcus, in Vega, Marshall county, Minnesota.

Source: Ancestry.com. Minnesota, U.S., Territorial and State Censuses, 1849-1905 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2007. https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/1058/images/MNV290_75-0421

FREE MAGE: https://www.ancestry.com/sharing/26426439?h=bf2420&utm_campaign=bandido-webparts&utm_source=post-share-modal&utm_medium=copy-url

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Thanks, I have the US side pretty well covered.  I'm just missing actual ship info and immigration docs.  I had linked Ole at the very top.

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Name:	Olof Larsson
Gender:	Man (Male)
Birth Date:	7 okt 1863 (7 Oct 1863)
Birth Place:	Dalby, Värmland
Departure Date:	1 maj 1889 (1 May 1889)
Departure Place:	Dalby, Värmland
Arrival Place:	Nordamerika
Occupation or Relation:	Ägareson
Notes:	Travels alone
Page:	51
Original Page:	109
Household Members:	Name Olof Larsson

Ancestry.com. Sweden, Emigrants Registered in Church Books, 1783-1991 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2016. Original data: Emigrants Registered in Swedish Church Books. EmiWeb, Karlstad, Sweden.

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You do not have the correct 1895 census in Olof’s page.

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I am still looking for him and the ship he came over on.

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Thanks, I meant to delete that, it was part of the last wild goose chase I was on.

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Don't knock yourself out, you've done way more than I had hoped for already.  Thank you again.

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I have not found any ship information yet.

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Per,

Good to hear you got the same answer, it supports the idea that we have the right guy, and not some random coincidence.  I'm so new to Swedish research, and just doing a favor for my neice, so I would likely not have ever used that site.  It sounds like you are talking about a different site altogether, Arkivdigital, which looks like a pay site.  Thanks for your reinforcement of the conclusion.

Answer 2

I see that Missy Berryann has found him for you, but still want to point out that with access to Arkivdigital it is easy to find him. The Population in Sweden index for 1820–1947 solves so many things.

Just searching for "olof 18631007" adding that I want a Markus living in the same household gives just one hit and I am directly at the entry for his family in Dalby (S) AI:28 where it says that Olof Larsson emigrated to "N[orr]a Amerika" 1-May-1889.

You can see that page at  https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/A0021195_00113  .

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It seems strange that there was only one hit by the way. How can that be? On the linked page you can see that it looks like the month of Olof's birth date has been corrected, and that's it. Searching for his brother Markus instead I find more pages with them, like Dalby (S) AI:24 spread 114 and AI:25 spread 114 where Olof's birth date is given as being in September instead. That was also the case in his first household record (AI:23 spread 111), but it says October in the birth book (C:9 spread 7) so that's what it was corrected against.

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Per, I had a similar situation the other day on RiksArkivet. I found only one hit in the 1880 census record for a man born in the mid 1800s and on the same farm in the same parish his entire life. So why was he only showing up in one census? I searched for his family members individually also and nothing. He and his parents should have been in the 1860 and 1870 censuses. I found him in every HHE, though.  Do you know why that would happen? It was a first for me.

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Don't know. I very seldom use any Swedish census from before 1940.

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I don't really know, but I have somehow learned that the 1860 and 1870 censuses are not complete, that is, completely indexed at Riksarkivet. Can't find a source for that right now.

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Ok, thank you, Maria!