Swedish Emigration

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• Chain emigration: When one family member emigrates first and the rest come after a while

Contents 1 Emigrants to the United States 1.1 Local history 2 Emigrants to Africa 3 Emigrants to Canada 4 Emigrants to New Zeeland 5 Estonian Swedes

Emigrants to the United States

• A rough timeline of Swedish emigration to North America (WikiTree Space page)
• Swedish emigration to the United States in Wikipedia
• Sweden Emigration and Immigration at Family Search
• Hans Högman Swedish emigration to USA
• European Emigration - Sweden by The Generations Network, Inc
  • Reasons for Emigration
  • Where did they go?
• The Swedish Famine of 1867-1969 in Wikipedia
• Beijbom, Ulf, 1995, Mot löftets land: den svenska utvandringen, LT, Stockholm
• Top Tips for Beginning Swedish Family History Research. Crista Cowan / Ancestry. Youtube video

Local history

• The Swedish Immigrant and life in Kansas
• Article about Swede Hollow, St. Paul, Expressen
• Johnson Eric, Peterson C.F. (1880), Svenskarne i Illinois. Historiska anteckningar - at archive.org
• Olson, Ernst Wilhelm (1917), The Swedish element in Illinois : survey of the past seven decades : with life sketches of men of today - at archive.org
• Algot E. Strand (1910) A history of the Swedish-Americans of Minnesota - at archive.org
• Whyman, Henry Carl (1992) The Hedstroms and the Bethel Ship saga : Methodist influence on Swedish religious life, Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press. Available at archive.org - log in and borrow
• Ostergren, Robert Clifford. - A community transplanted : the trans-Atlantic experience of a Swedish immigrant settlement in the Upper Middle West, 1835-1915 / Robert C. Ostergren.. - 1988. - ISBN: 915542211X (emigration from Rättvik to Isanti, Minnesota)

Emigrants to Africa

• Afrikafararna is a website about the Swedes and Norwegians who emigrated to the southern parts of Africa from the 17th century to 1902.

Emigrants to Canada

• https://www.swedesincanada.ca/index.html

Emigrants to New Zeeland

• New Zealand Colonists - 70 mile Bush
• Space:Svenskarna_i_Nya_Zeeland/The_Swedes_in_New_Zealand
• https://www.rotter.se/blog/entry/emigranter-till-nya-zeeland
• https://teara.govt.nz/en/scandinavians/page-1

Estonian Swedes

• http://rågöföreningen.se
  • http://rågöföreningen.se/Ragoforskning/Namnforskning/Rågögårdarna.pdf