My Swedish search...

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Permalink Reply by Sven-Ove Westberg on March 2, 2011 at 9:39pm

The details of the flight do not hep at all. What you need to find out is when where they born? When did they immigrated? If thats not known when is the first evidence that they are in US. I did a quick search in the  1900 Census and found this Elsa that is born in skallsjö.

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Arvidsson, Elsa Alfrida
Elev

f. 1885 i Skallsjö (Älvsborgs län, Västergötland)

Flicka, ensam i familjen

Östra Haga N:o 83-85 o. 92-94 Praktiska Hushållskolan
Göteborgs Haga (Göteborgs och Bohus län, Västergötland)

Födelseort i källan: Skallsjö Älvsborgs län

If it her then you need to find all Swedish her siblings/cousins and trace them forward.

 

Sven-Ove

 

Permalink Reply by Scott Thompson on March 2, 2011 at 10:34pm

Thank you Sven for responding and you are right, the flight details do not help.  I just thought it made for interesting reading.

The person you searched is my Great Grandmother. She was born in Goteborg on 20 September 1885.  She sailed on the ship Orlando on 18 July 1906 to Grimsby. Once in Grimsby she sailed to Boston on the SS Arabic on 20 July 1906. She was 20 years old at the time.

Can you translate your search result for me?  Unfortunately I do not speak or read Swedish. 

Again, I thank you very much for your help.  If I can do the same for you, please don't hesitate to ask.

 

Scott Thompson

 

 

Permalink Reply by Eva Larsson on March 3, 2011 at 12:30am

Arvidsson, Elsa Alfrida
Elev

(elev means pupil)

f. 1885 i Skallsjö (Älvsborgs län, Västergötland)

(f. is an abbreviation of born. She was born 1885 in Skallsjö, a small parish in Älvsborgs county in Västergötland.

Flicka, ensam i familjen
(Girl, alone in the family)

Östra Haga N:o 83-85 o. 92-94 Praktiska Hushållskolan
Göteborgs Haga (Göteborgs och Bohus län, Västergötland)

(The two lines abowe is the adress tht she was listed at 1900. "Praktiska Hushållskolan" is the name of at school in Göteborg that educated young maids in household- picture below)

Födelseort i källan: Skallsjö Älvsborgs län

Birhtplace in source: Skallsjö Älvsborgs län

 

Eva Larsson

 

Permalink Reply by Lynn Anderson on March 3, 2011 at 8:55am

Hi Scott,

Thanks for your post and a good description of what facts you have including dates. Even though the airplane trip back to Sweden only give a few hints the trip was so typical. By the 1960s air travel from USA to Sweden was common and affordable and many immigants who came over as children were able to return to their homeland for a visit. You are so lucky to have annotated pictures. I have pictures but with no notes. It takes a huge detective project to figure them out and some we will never know. (I was surprised to hear that PanAm had a direct flight to Arlanda. In 1962 I flew NYC-Copenhagen-Arlanda.)

Do a search on Google for   Skallsjö Älvsborgs län  (copy characters to get the Swedish spelling!!!  Those Swedish letters are IMPORTANT. They are distinct letters, not accents.) You will find a number of entries that you should check out including a note that the church was in Älvsborgs län (the county) and now is in Västra Götlands län (???). One picture shows ruins in 2007 so something may have happened. Fortunately the records were likely at the archives by then. Much of the filming began in the late 1940s. The area is near Gothenburg  (Göteborg in Swedish, the second biggest city in Sweden, and biggenst port)

Permalink Reply by Lynn Anderson on March 4, 2011 at 7:49am

HI Scott,

Google Map readily finds your church location. Enter  Skallsjö kyrka, Göteborgsvägen, Lerum, Sverige and zoom in.  You can see the cemetery surrounding the church and see the church (look for the shadow of the tower).

Permalink Reply by Eva Larsson on March 6, 2011 at 3:38am

Hello again....

 

Do you know what year William Nils Hallgren was born? Maybe you alredy have information about his parents?

Helsingborg is a town with about 100.000 residents, close to where I live, and a parish where I do a lot of my genelogy research.

Permalink Reply by Scott Thompson on March 6, 2011 at 2:14pm

Hello Eva,

  I have his date of birth as 19 October 1845, born in Helsingborg Malmouhus Ian Skane Sweden.  William Nils Hallgren is what the records show once he got to the U.S.  His name actually was Nils Peter Hellgren. He emmigrated 11 July 1887 from Salomonhog 5,6, Grevie, Kristianstads Ian (Skane)

 

Thank you

Permalink Reply by Eva Larsson on March 6, 2011 at 2:38pm

Sorry, I read your answer after I posted a new reply!

Permalink Reply by Eva Larsson on March 6, 2011 at 2:37pm

Hi!

I found a Nils Petter, born the 19:th of october 1845 in Helsingborg. Father was Lars Christian Hellgren and his wife Petronella Olsdotter from Pålsköpshus in Helsingborg. He was baptised november the 2:nd..

Sometimes, when people emigrated, they changed names. Maybe this Nils Petter is your William Nils Hellgren/Hallgren?

Permalink Reply by Scott Thompson on March 7, 2011 at 4:40pm

Thank you Eva!!

Permalink Reply by Scott Thompson on March 7, 2011 at 5:03pm

Elsa Arvidson Hallgren is third from the left.  The only information on the other people pictured is from left to right - Sture, Svea and Brita.  The photo was taken in Alingsas.