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Hi
Does anyone have any info about Albert Hagbergs life in USA. Albert was born 1896 in Överluleå/Boden Sweden.He went to Seattle 1914.He was reg. in a World WarI draft registration card in Juneau, Alaska 1918. His relatives never heard from him after that.
Regards from Kristina
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I cannot find Albert in the 1920 census, either in the Alaska database, or in the state of Washington. I looked under Albert and under different spellings for Hagberg. I did find a Hagberg in the Ellis Island database, which you probably have seen:
Line 2: Hagberg, Albert I. M 17y Single Sweden, Scand. Ofvalulea, Sweden
When I drilled into that manifest, I found only the right side of it (column #15 to the end). It said that he was going to Seattle, Washington to be with a friend: N.P. Bostrom, who lived at Columbia Station, Seattle, Washington. He paid for his own passage, and he arrived with $25.00.
I did not find N.P. Bostrom in the 1920 census for Seattle.
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There is a listing for a Nils Bostrom (from Sweden) who came to the U.S. on June 23, 1906. He was 28 years old in 1906, and he was going to Tacoma, Washington - which is just south of Seattle. Maybe he came from the same area as Albert Hagberg did. I will try to find some databases of WWI soldiers.
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Hi Karen
Thank you for your answer and email.
Regards Kristina
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Finding Albert Hagberg's military record may be a real problem, because the place where First World War records are kept (St. Louis, Missouri) had a fire, and most of those records were burned. That must be why there are so few on-line databases of soldiers from that war. The Alaska gen-web site is rather poor, and does not seem to have lists of soldiers who enlisted in that territory. I will write to one of the local military historical museums and see what I can find out about Alaskan volunteers. Here is a site where you can apply on-line for your ancestor's records, but you have to prove how you are related to him. I think you can scan an image of his parish birth record, or something like that, and attach it if they ask.
http://www.archives.gov/veterans/evetrecs/index.html
Look at that site, then click on the red button at the bottom of the screen that says request military records I have a copy of the standard form SF180, which I can mail to you, in case you are unable to do this on-line, or if you would prefer to mail in a form with a letter.
Because of the fire, there is a good chance that your family will never find out about Albert Hagberg. I do not have access to the 1930 census here at home, so I did not search for him in it. However, I could not locate him in the 1910 or 1920 census, but I am unsure if the census was taken in Alaska (because it was only a territory). It did not become a state until 1959. Juneau is located along the Pacific, in the southeast panhandle area. I think that you will be able to read about the history of Juneau and Alaska, and try to understand why Albert went there (probably for adventure). You might also write to Juneau to this address and ask about finding the fate of your ancestor:
Veterans Of Foreign Wars
336 1st St
Juneau, AK 99801
Make sure you enclose a copy of his draft registration card. Another option is to write to this address and ask for information:
Alaska Genealogical Society
7030 Dickerson Drive
Anchorage 99504
If he returned from the war, it is possible that he went to Canada, and I know nothing about searching Canadian census records.
Tell me if you have any luck with these sites. If you need help, I will fill out a form and mail it to you for your signature.
Your ancestor must have been a thrill seeker if he traveled from Seattle to Juneau (probably by ship) back around 1915!
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Thanks a lot Karen.
I?m so thankful for your answers.You seems to know a lot of this and I?m glad that you tell me this and I will now try to look further myself.
Regards / Kristina
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Karen
I was not able to find Albert Hagberg on the site you recommended,maybe I do something wrong.Can you help me come further?
Regards from
Kristina
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DOES ANYONE HAVE ACCESS TO THE CANADIAN CENSUS? If so, could you see if Albert Hagberg moved to Canada? I am trying to find this person, but I'd like to make sure that he did not move out of the U.S. He did register for the draft (World War I) in Juneau, but that does not mean that he fought in the war. He might have moved to Canada, but I have no access to Canadian census records.
Thanks in advance!
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The Canadian census is on-line for free - but no registers are available there (I don't think any registers exist). The Canadian census are governed by other privacy rules, 92 years, and this means that the census of 1911 is the latest released (in the summer of 2005 after intensive debates in the parliament).
See Collections Canada
Ancestry seems to have the census of 1901 but not (yet) the census of 1911.
Regards,
Eva
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Thanks, Eva, for that information. I found out from an archivist that The American Battle Monuments Commission website did not list Albert Hagberg as having been buried overseas during WWI, so that is ruled out. The National Veterans Cemetery Register did not list him as being buried in one of those cemeteries. There is one book, The Great War, that has casualty listings for each state, but Alaska was not a state at that time, so it is not listed. I wrote to the Dept of Vet. Affairs in AK, to the VFW in Juneau, and to the AK genealogical and historical society to see if they have any information. Perhaps he registered for the draft, but never went to war. Otherwise, that is all I can think of doing to find him. The only thing left is to search the U.S. census (west coast states) for every man named Albert, born in Sweden, and within his age group. If this Albert got into some trouble in AK, then he'd change his last name when he applied for citizenship. Hagberg is not such a common name that he should be able to hide in the census, so maybe he changed his name a little. There are Hagbergs living in AK today, and there were some Haegbergs listed in 1920, but none fit his age categories.