The personal stories captured here illustrate the determination shared by Swedish immigrants in their search for a better life in America. These oral histories recreate the routes the immigrants followed in their journey and communicate the social and physical challenges they faced as well as the courage and optimism that drove them far from their homeland. Other stories reflect on memories of living in Sweden and the process of putting down roots in Oregon.
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San Francisco Earthquake 1909, as told by Ernst Skarstedt
Alma Nygren Janisch – Traces of a Swedish Immigrant’s Life in Portland, OR
Cherry Grove, Oregon, A Swedish Community
Mr. Rolf Erlandson and the Sweden he left
A Life Story – The Granat Family History
A Life Story – A Swedish immigrant soldier’s life
A Life Story – A Mystery of a Gravestone
A Life Story – by Hans Gösta Andersson
A Life Story about Per Johan Anderson
Per Wilhelm Wicklund – A Loggers Journey Through Life
Olof Grafström
Samuel Magnus Hill and Selma Lagerlöf
Rötter i Vindeln möts 2009 i Palm Springs, Kalifornien
The Pillars of Swedish Heritage in Oregon
Stories Archive
- A Life Story – A Mystery of a Gravestone Revised
- A Life Story – A Swedish immigrant soldier’s life
- A Life Story – by Hans Gösta Andersson
- A Life Story – The Granat Family History
- A Life Story about Per Johan Anderson
- Alma Nygren Janisch – Traces of a Swedish Immigrant’s Life in Portland, OR
- Cherry Grove, Oregon, A Swedish Community
- Mr. Rolf Erlandson and the Sweden he left
- Olof Grafström
- Per Wilhelm Wicklund – A Loggers Journey Through Life
- Rötter i Vindeln möts 2009 i Palm Springs, Kalifornien (in Swedish)
- Samuel Magnus Hill
- San Francisco Earthquake 1909, as told by Ernst Skarstedt
- The Pillars of Swedish Heritage in Oregon