Re: Looking for information on Alexander Strom
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Looking for information on Alexander Strom
Steven Strom 2/21/04
He is hard to find:
(1) He possibly emigrated before 1892 so he can't be searched from the Emigrant Register or the Ellis Island archive.
(2) The name Alexander Ström possibly indicates that he was aSwede-Finn, but the surname is rather common. There were many persons named Ström who emigrated from the coastal parishes in Ostrobothnia, but partly it only reflects the great amount of emigrants from these parishes.
(3) He might have shortened his name from Ström....
Anyhow it might be useful to send a query to the message boards where there are participants with access to databases of names in Swedish-speaking Ostrobothnia.
Discuss genealogy in Ostrobothnia http://www.qnet.fi/westside/discus/http://www.qnet.fi/westside/discus/
The Finlander Forum http://finlander.eget.net/index.phphttp://finlander.eget.net/index.php
The only other advice I can give is to use Ström (o with dots) when searching him in Finnish databases.
Regards,
Staffan
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