Information for immigrants and potential immigrants. Many articles include photographs of families, houses, and places of business. Information in the articles emphasizes place of birth and family, date of emigration, date of arrival in America, date of arrival in California, and place[s] of residence in that state, with exhaustive histories of work and business for each individual, religious affiliation, and educational background.

Filled with authentic drawings and photographs, the book describes advertising in Sweden, routes followed to reach California and Seattle, conditions during travel and after arrival, and gold camps, as well as techniques used to find gold, illustrating implements as simple as shovels, and as complex as transferring horses in slings from boats to dry land.

The memoirs of the author from his parents’ stories of their early life in Finland and in America, augmented by articles from the “Svenska amerikanaren tribunen” and aided by others, many still living at the time of publication.

History of Swedish life in Illinois, based on more than a thousand biographies of people from all walks of life.

Bishop Hill was a community founded in 1846 by Eric Jansson and his followers, who dissented from the formalism of the Swedish state church. That church had forbidden Jansson to perform services in its name, and he and others from Hälsingland made the journey to the American heartland. This book is a result of interviews with people who live in Bishop Hill. Three-page chronology of events in Bishop Hill, 1808-1996.

An encyclopedic work on the subject up to the date of publication, 1908. Two volumes.

The story of the evolution of Rockford, Illinois, as shown in interviews with fifteen Swedish immigrants and ten children of immigrants.

A history of Knox County emphasizing genealogical information. Eight-page index of personal names.

Describes how three Swedish working-class organizations cooperated to promote their interests in an American environment.

An encyclopedic history of Swedes in Sioux City up to 1912. Lists ethnic organizations, newspapers, and magazines, Swedish Americans active in local business and politics, religion, and in this case Sioux City as the site of a Swedish consulate.

Chapters treat the old-world background, new-world settlement, the family, the frontier and youth culture, educational institutions, religion, a fascinating thirty-page chapter on pioneers, heroes, and rituals, and ends with the influence of the outside [American] world.

Excellent color and black-and-white photographs show old and contemporary (i.e., as of 1979) Lindsborg. The text gives basic history and facts. Map of Saline County, and a street map of Lindsborg.

Translation of Alfred Bergin Lindsborg, bidrag till svenskarnas och den lutherska kyrkans historia i Smoky Hill River dalen (1909). More than four hundred photographs illustrate the almost day-by-day history, naming nearly everyone who resided in the community and its environs. No index.

Translation of Alfred Bergin's Lindsborg efter femtio år; bidrag till vår lutherska kyrkas och svenskarnas historia i Kansas och Sydvästern, 1919. this book studies all aspects of life in Lindsborg, with long lists of members of societies.

Detailed histories of movements and organizations that culminated in the Smoky Valley town of 1953. These histories include long lists of participants in movements, members of societies, contributors to worthy causes, settlers, and businessmen, not many of whom are found in the sparse three-page index at the end.

This work fleshes out Andrew Peterson's diaries with details he did not commit to paper. The author has traced property owners and numbered them so that their holdings can be found on a fold-out map on page twenty. She provides information on individuals and families, with many photographs, a bibliography for each chapter, and a seven-page index containing primarily personal and place names.

Chisago Lake Colony was populated almost exclusively by Swedish immigrants. It was isolated, and did not begin to keep some kinds of records until the late 1870s. This book attempts to present records dating from the beginning of the settlement up to the 1870s, although in many cases it goes up to the 1930s or the 1940s.

Volume 1: The emigration from Trolle Ljungby to Goodhue County, 1855-1912. Volume 2: Trolle Ljungby families in Goodhue County.

History of Glader Cemetery with much history of the Chisago settlement. Lists of persons buried in the cemetery, many photographs of tombstones, of the surrounding landscapes, and of nineteenth-century documents including land sales, hotel registers, and even a grocery list.

Written from the viewpoint of the Anders Anderson family, this is truly an exhaustive history of Spruce Hill in general. Private homes, businesses, churches, and cemeteries are described with names of all people involved.

Papers originally presented at a conference held at the Minnesota History Center in 1996.

A guide book to, and history of, sites in New Jersey founded by Swedes and Finns.

Seventeen tables list members of the Mansson family, the Steelman family, families living in Old Gloucester County during the first half of the eighteenth century, land purchases of the Steelman family, colonial taverns of West Jersey, primary and secondary land purchases in Cape May County, the Jeremy Adams family, colonial governors of New Jersey, some individuals who served in the Revolution from Gloucester and Cape May Counties, ships calling at Batsto, Bog Iron Works (locations, builders, dates opened and closed), business statistics of Gloucester County in 1832, the 1794 militia enrollment of Gloucester County, as well as births and deaths in the John Turp family, and the William Steelman Foster family.

An intimate history of some Swedish immigrants and many Americans of Swedish descent resident in Brooklyn. Hundreds of names, birthplaces, dates, and family relationships are given in the text, but there is no index for fast location.

Study of the Swedes of Jamestown, New York, from first settlement, naming almost all individuals involved. Almost every page has black-and-white photographs of people, buildings, and parts of the city.

Images with detailed captions of Swedes in Oregon.

Translation of: De nya utvandrarna : Tio svenskar i nordvästra USA berättar.

Sketches of pioneer life in South Dakota by a Swedish-born pastor who served several churches.

The story of immigrants from Värmland, many of whom settled in Texas. Personal histories of daily life and the building of businesses and homes, with all their attendant problems, difficulties, and failures. Good for the genealogist and for those seeking an idea of how people lived from the journey by ship to success or failure in the new country.

An exhaustive history of each subject discussed, with biographies and photographs of most persons named and photographs of buildings, families, and societies. Begins with history, geography, and government of Texas. Continues with Swedish immigration. Sections: Austin, Palm Valley, Brushy, Georgetown, Taylor, Hutto, Decker, Ericsdale, Jonah, Elroy, Kenedy, Manor, East Sweden, West Sweden, Brady, Melvin, Fort Worth, El Campo, Dallas, Waco, Lund, Kimbro, Manda, Ganado, Crosby, Elgin, Louise, Galveston, Olivia, Temple, Swedonia, Bishop, Swensondale, Lyford, San Antonio, and Houston.

The first one hundred pages describe Texas in the 1850s and the early Swedish settlers who chose to live there. With the Civil War, Swedish settlers had to consider slavery and politics, and the last 140 pages describe Swedish institutions, place names, language, press, writers, colleges, and cultural groups in Texas, as well as the Galveston flood and Swedes in the cities.

Of Finnish-Swedish descent, Unonius’ work plays a major role in the history of the great Swedish migration to North America. This volume, specifically about settlement in Wisconsin, presents a wide variety of subjects; most of the letters are neither by nor to Unonius, but all discuss subjects of great importance to the time and place. Some are letters to newspapers, others to family members or acquaintances.

The story of six men and a dog who left Gävle in 1841 and ended up in Wisconsin to found a colony called Nya Uppsala. The leader of the group was the famous Gustaf Unonius. This brief introduction takes Swedish settlement of the state up to the 1920s and provides good basic information, including a one-page bibliography and five pages of black-and-white photographs.