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Archive - Swedish history / Were some emigrants given passage in exchange for work contracts in US?
« skrivet: 2000-04-01, 18:07 »
In an old memories narrative it was mentioned that my grandfather got a contract for work from the ship company on which he traveled to US. He was from Svinhult, Östergotland and went to NYC, then on to Galesburg, Illinois. Think it was coal mining. His name was Johan Fredrick Jonasson (Johnson), traveled with wife Johanna Sofia Israelsdotter and two children, Hulda and Anders.