Goransson, Sven Gunnar - 1889 Värmland

[Everett Ellestad]

Does anyone know anything about Sven Gunnar Göransson (Goransson, US spelling), who emigrated to Illinois in 1909.  
Most likely Chicago.
He apparently lived for a while in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (1930) with his wife Anna (Dahl).  She died and he much later married
a Lottie (Rylander) and lived again in Chicago.

[Elisabeth Thorsell]

How about this one from Emibas:
 
Post 869240
 
Göransson, Sven Gunnar
Ingenjör (unmarried man)
 
b. 12/29/1889 in Trollhättan, Älvsborgs län (Västergötland)
 
Emigrated 12/7/1909
from Kyrkbyn, Karlskoga, Örebro län (Värmland)
to Nordamerika
 
Source: Household Examination Roll, p. M 355
 
Emibas migration file ID: Karlskoga T 1909 058
 
Maybe, you can now find him in the Ellis Island records?

[Judy Olson Baouab]

Here he is on the Emihamn database.
 
First name: GUNNAR S
Last name: GÖRANSSON
Age: 20     Gender: M
Parish: KARLSKOGA     County: T (Örebro)
Port: GÖTEBORG
Date: 1909 12 16
Destination: WORCESTER MA
Fellows: NEJ
Source: 90:582:90554
 
Judy

[Judy Olson Baouab]

Ellis Island site:
 
 
First Name:    S Gunnar
Last Name:    Goranson
Ethnicity:    Sweden, Swedish
Last Place of Residence:    Karlskoga, Sweden
Date of Arrival:    Dec 24, 1909
Age at Arrival:  19y    Gender:  M    Marital Status:  S  
Ship of Travel:    Lusitania
Port of Departure:    Liverpool
Manifest Line Number:    0004
 
http://tinyurl.com/7x7dyk2
 
 
http://tinyurl.com/875uwwx
 
Judy

[Judy Olson Baouab]

World War I Draft Registration Cards
 
Name:    Sven Gunnar Goransson
City:    Chicago
County:    Cook
State:    Illinois
Birthplace:    Sweden
Birth Date:    29 Dec 1889
Race:    Caucasian (White)
FHL Roll Number:    1493512
DraftBoard:    19
 
Source Citation: Registration Location: Cook County, Illinois; Roll: 1493512; Draft Board: 19.
 
Ancestry.com. World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
 
There is more information on the actual application form, which I found on Ancestry.com. For example, he was single and signed this form 5 June 1917. He was a mechanical engineer and so forth.
 
Judy

[Everett Ellestad]

Thanks for all the info, people.  In the meantime, I had found the Ellis Island entry.
However, no matter where and how I look, I cannot find his death in the USA.  This is
extremely weird, since being an engineer, he must have had a Social Security number.  
He lived and worked there for years and years.  Any ideas why there is no SSDI entry?

[Anna-Lisa Göransson]

Hej Everett.
 
Har skickat ett mail till dig.
 
Anna-Lisa

[Judy Olson Baouab]

Any ideas why there is no SSDI entry?
 
1. Perhaps he died before the computerization of the Social Security Death Index. Most entries are from about 1962 and later.
 
2. Perhaps he worked for the railroad, which has its own retirement system. (Perhaps even an engineer might work for the railroad.)
 
3. Perhaps no one told the Social Security Administration that he had died.
 
Those are just some thoughts.
 
Judy