Contains several music sheets with song in both English and Swedish. Included in the materials there is a book titled “Swedish Singers: Song Album”.
Consists of a brief biography of Thor Meland, detailing his emigration to America, occupation, family life, and death. It also contains pictures of the Meland family, as well as a letter from Mrs. Margaret Longeteig (a relative of Thor Meland) written in 1978.
The Swedes in Tacoma and The Puget Sound Country 1852-1976 by Stephen J. Forslund
Genealogical information on the Sandhill Swedes, the John Dahlin family in America. The manuscript is divided into four parts. Part one is a family tree with biographies of John Dahlin’s parents and siblings. Part two discusses the history of John’s wife, Maria (Marie) Wilhelmina Jernberg Dahlin. It also includes the biographies of their children and grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Part three is a list of genealogical information. Part four is a personal reflection of the author’s grandparents, John and Marie Dahlin, and her aunts and uncles.
This section is a biography of the descendants of Nils and Juditha, who had four children, through the year 2000.
The Bergström-Ersson Family History is a seventeen page typescript . Included in the family history is a family tree of both the Bergström and the Ersson families, copy of Sven Bergström's citizenship papers, a copy of the patent deed issued to Tarkeld Willisson for the homestead Sven and Anna bought. A letter from Marie Klies to Arvada (Dotty) McFarland dated October 1982. Also included is a copy of
a drawing entitled “Unto the Promised Land...” and a cookbook printed for the reunion in 1991 of the Bergström/Ersson families title "Our Family's Best Kept Secrects."
An interview titled "Swedish immigration to the Seattle Area" written by Teresa Stewart And Suzette Williams.
The biography, autobiography, and photocopies of personal documents of immigrant Syver Svenson Rodning, born in 1869 in Hallingdal, Norway. He came to America in 1894, studied at Augsburg Seminary for three years, moved to North Dakota in 1901, and married Bergit Bjella in 1907. Elected to office in 1921, Syver was Register of Deeds in Minnewaukan County for fourteen years. He passed away in 1937. This collection consists of two folders of biographical information on Syver Swenson Rodning. One folder contains a biography of Syver Swenson Rodning written in 1987 by his son Richard Rodning. The biography includes family information as well as copies of documents: letters, maps, pictures, emigrant rates of passage, graduation certificate, record of naturalization, homestead certificate, marriage license for Syver and Bergit, product and grocery advertisements, Syver’s campaign poster, and poems written by Syver. There is also information on Syver’s brothers and sisters. The other folder contains a story written by Syver Swenson Rodning about his childhood, adolescence, and immigration translated in 1993 by Richard Rodning. The original was published in “Skandinaven", dated 1938 and 1939.
