By Ingeborg Dean, A First Generation Swede and former SRIO member
Between 1851 and 1925, 44, 533 people left the province of Dalarna, Sweden for North America. Among those emigrants were two of mygreat-uncles, Karl-Erik and Klas Edward Nygren, as well as their older sister, Alma Elisabeth, whose story this is. A maternal aunt of theirs had left earlier, also from the parish of Stora Tuna, which lost 18% of its population during the great wave of emigration from Sweden.
Alma (Ingeborgs’s aunt) and Frank Janisch with their children, Victor and Mildred, circa 1930