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Tracing Your Swedish Ancestry
By James E. Erickson and Nils William Olsson

 

Police Emigration Registers
Page in the police register in Goteborg listing the emigrants who passed through the city en route to America on 13 April, 1870 aboard the steamship Orlando. The information listed for each emigrant includes shipping contract number, name and occupation, parish of nativity, age, gender and destination in America.

 

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