Swedish Americans

During the 19th-early 20th century about 1.3 millions Swedes left their homes and emigrated to the United States.

Purpose of the project

The primary purpose of this project is to connect Swedish Americans with American Swedes seeking relatives, roots, sharing information sources, tips, etc. This project covers Swedes who have moved to anywhere in the Americas, from Águila Islet up to Cape Columbia and from the Swedish settlers of New Sweden in 1638 to now.

The project welcomes all the American Swedes or Swedes with (assumed) family across the pond. As stated above, this project covers the entire continents of America while, at the same time, it is acknowledged that most of the Swedish emigrants moved to USA and Canada, whereas nowadays descendants of Swedish emigrants can be found all over the Americas.

Why join the Project? Well, for a number of reasons: It is important to know who moved, where and when and all the other possible questions which might arise. The more comprehensive the database in Geni, the better answers it might provide.
It is also important for many researchers to keep a tab on the many Swedes who moved to America for several decades before moving back to Sweden. In many church books, the only hint may be a scribbled line of: "moved to America" or "from America".

"Farewell to home." Emigrants bound for England and America on steamer at Göteborg, Sweden. This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division under the digital ID cph.3b40508.

Because Finland was the eastern part of Sweden up to 1809 and because of the Swedish/Norwegian union 1814-1905 and also the many Norwegians travelling to America from Gothenburg and many Swedes travelling from Oslo/Christiania, please also pay attention to the Finnish American and Norwegian American Projects.