Re: Sweden to New York in abt 1868
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Sweden to New York in abt 1868
JUDY FRERICHS 10/31/03
Hi Judy,
There are 136 Öströms, 50 Ostroms (mostly people who had already been to the U.S.) and 28 Oströms on the Emigrant CD, so just a last name isn't going to help much, and many of the Swedes emigrated using a patronymic name (ending with "son" or "dotter") so they might have adopted Öström in their new home and won't even be listed on this cd under the name you know them by.(The letter "ö" is NOT equivalent to the letter "o".)
Besides that, the Emigrant CD, which lists emigrations from Swedish ports, mainly starts in 1869 and later, except for the port of Norrköping which started earlier.
I didn't find any Öströms listed on the Emigrant CD until 1869. This is the earliest one listed.
First name: CARL AUGUST
Last name: ÖSTRÖM
Age: 26Gender: M
Parish: GRENNACounty: F (Jönköping)
Title/Note: SJÖMAN (Seaman, which must be sailor, or so I'm guessing)
Port: GÖTEBORG
Date: 1869 04 09 (date of registering with the police to leave Sweden)
Destination: NEW YORK
Fellows: NEJ (Nej = no. He traveled alone on his ticket)
Source: 1:64:622
Here is an Oström (a different spelling) who left from Germany in 1867.
First name: W.
Last name: OSTRÖM
Age: 30Gender:
Parish: STOCKHOLMCounty:
Title/Note: LANDTMANN
Port: HAMBURG
Date: 1867 08 03
Destination: NEW YORK
I suppose you will have to do just page by page searches through passenger lists of various ports, unless you have some sort of idea where they came from in Sweden or unless someone has some sort of index to passenger arrivals at that time period. Then there are Swedish county emigration indexes available on microfilm, and you could narrow your search to a few weeks after they left Sweden according to that index. (By the 1880s, they arrived within a couple of weeks of leaving Sweden, but ships were slower in the 1860s, I think.) There were a lot of ports they could have used, so this will take you a long time and then the manifests won't tell where they came from at that period of time.
This is a good site which explains how to find passenger manifests.
http://home.att.net/~arnielang/shipgide.htmlhttp://home.att.net/~arnielang/shipgide.html
Are you really more interested in finding where they lived in Sweden? If so, try telling ALL the information you have and ask on the Sweden board. Maybe someone will have suggestions for you.
http://genforum.genealogy.com/sweden/http://genforum.genealogy.com/sweden/
This site gives useful ideas on how to find our Scandinavian ancestors who emigrated earlier than the emigration databases available in the old countries.
http://www.horlacher.org/genarticles/scandem.htmhttp://www.horlacher.org/genarticles/scandem.htm
Here is someone found on the passport database of that Emigrant CD but he left too early. (That database only goes from 1783-1860.)
Name: ROBERT THEODOR ÖSTRÖM
Age: 29
Home parish: STOCKHOLMCounty: A
Title: INSTRUMENTMAKAREGES
Date: 1856
Destination: N AMERIKA
Source: A 118:19
Good luck!
Judy