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The Swedes In Illinois--A Centennial, Nils William Olsson Mar 1981

The Swedes In Illinois--A Centennial, Nils William Olsson

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Corrections And Additions To Genealogical Books, Nils William Olsson Mar 1981

Corrections And Additions To Genealogical Books, Nils William Olsson

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Swedish Genealogical Bibles, Nils William Olsson Mar 1981

Swedish Genealogical Bibles, Nils William Olsson

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Literature Mar 1981

Literature

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Full Issue Vol. 1 No. 1 Mar 1981

Full Issue Vol. 1 No. 1

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Declarations Of Rockford Swedes 1859-1870, Nils William Olsson Mar 1981

Declarations Of Rockford Swedes 1859-1870, Nils William Olsson

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Genealogical Queries Mar 1981

Genealogical Queries

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Immigrant Artifacts As Genealogical Aids, Nils William Olsson Mar 1981

Immigrant Artifacts As Genealogical Aids, Nils William Olsson

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Declarations Of Rockford Swedes 1859-1870, Nils William Olsson Mar 1981

Declarations Of Rockford Swedes 1859-1870, Nils William Olsson

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


What's In A Swedish Surname?, Nils William Olsson Mar 1981

What's In A Swedish Surname?, Nils William Olsson

Swedish American Genealogist

No abstract provided.


Hedda Gabler As Seen By Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, And Freud, Clarence Newman Jan 1981

Hedda Gabler As Seen By Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, And Freud, Clarence Newman

Theses Digitization Project

No abstract provided.


Scandinavian Immigrant Literature, Christer Lennart Mossberg Jan 1981

Scandinavian Immigrant Literature, Christer Lennart Mossberg

Western Writers Series Digital Editions

When today’s "Midwest” opened to settlers in the nineteenth century, hundreds of thousands of European immigrants joined Americans streaming into the area. Eventually, these immigrants constituted almost half the population of the plains and prairies. Although many old country habits and traditions disappeared quickly under the pressure to assimilate, several immigrant groups persisted in using their own languages to record their lives. Scandinavian immigrants left one of the richest records of Western farmlife in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, not only in their diaries, journals, and ethnic histories, but particularly in their literature. Over eighty novels and short story …


Nordic Immigrants In Portland, 1870-1920 : The First Fifty Years, Janet Lynn Baisinger Jan 1981

Nordic Immigrants In Portland, 1870-1920 : The First Fifty Years, Janet Lynn Baisinger

Dissertations and Theses

Portland, Oregon had the potential in the 1870s to become the center of Nordic immigration to the Pacific Northwest. It was the primary urban center of the area, and the headquarters for Scandinavian mission work. In the 1870s, Nordics began to establish churches, clubs, lodges and newspapers. After the first fifty years, however, Portland's Nordic ethnicity was not as evident in the city's character as mere numbers might warrant.