A step by step guide to researching your Swedish, Norwegian, or Danish genealogy.

Includes an index of biographies, portrait photographs, and an annotated bibliography of Scandinavian historical literature in America.

Norwegians on reel 1-28, Danes on reels 29-37, Finns on reels 38-56.

Papers by seventeen specialists on the Scandinavian experience in America, viewing past events as they have shaped the present and will influence the future. They include history of Danes, Norwegians, Swedes, and Finns in North American education and art, reviews of published histories of these groups, preservation of ethnic identity, literary representations, immigrant letters from America, letters sent from Denmark to immigrants in America, and formal efforts to preserve the American Scandinavian heritage.

An introduction to emigration from the Nordic countries of Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden to North America, particularly in the mid- to late-1800's.

Nine specialists in Sweden, Canada, Australia and the United States describe aspects of cultural change resulting from emigration, referring primarily to emigrants from Sweden. Aspects studied include community life and the preservation of ethnic consciousness, ethnic press and education, and rural life and architecture in the American Midwest.

An analysis of causes of migration within and from Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and Finland, including patterns of movement and settlement in North America. Aspects of immigrant life studied include agriculture, commerce, religion, labor and trade unions. Includes an eight-page overview of research on emigration from Nordic countries, statistics on Nordic-born immigrants to Canada, the United States, and Australia by province and state, a list of administrative areas in the four Nordic countries illustrated by a foldout map, and an eighteen-page bibliography.