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Titel: Äldre inlägg (arkiv) till 1999-08-28
Skrivet av: Elisabeth Thorsell skrivet 1999-08-09, 16:50: Carolyn, it would probably also be easier to give you a good answer if you would give the name of your grandfather, which I failed to find above.
In the time period before 1915 most Swedish emigrants left from the port of Göteborg in western Sweden, and they first travelled on a smaller steamer to England, crossed England by rail and got on the big Ocean steamers in Liverpool, or some other port on the western side of England. Swedish emigration records only gives the name of the first boat, the one from Göteborg. To find out the name of the boat he use to come to the US you will have to search the arrival records for about 2-4 weeks after he left Göteborg for the main US ports - a big job but it can be done. A good book on this subject is They came on ships by John Philip Colletta, published in the early 1990s.