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Written by Syrene Forsman
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A fine cruise to Alaska provided the venue for lectures, tours, and performances for the 672 participants in FinnFest USA’s 2009 festival. Ron Kaminen made the arrangements for the Holland America Line SS Westerdam. Out of the 672 travelers, among some 1100 total cruisers on board, at least 10 have identified themselves to SFHS.
Sunnie Sundquist Empie held a lecture on research in Colorado mines as she writes her family history. Genealogy Director, Beverly Huchala, said there were too many excellent lectures and too few hours in the day. Verna Eriks enjoyed the town tours, and Mike Brownell did a combination of lectures and off boat tours.
If you were along on the cruise, please send SFHS your name, and we’ll add it to this article. Any photos? We’ll add those too. Tack! Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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Written by Syrene Forsman
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Click the link "Open publication" to view an old copy of the SFHS Quarterly |
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 Press Release from The Swedish Finn Historical Society,
Seattle, Washington
December 10, 2007
June Pelo from Port Charlotte, Florida has been awarded the Suomi-Seura (Finland Society) Silver Badge of Merit. She was nominated by The Swedish Finn Historical Society and the award was approved in Finland on November 8, 2007. It was given as a token of gratitude for the work she has done on behalf of the preservation of ties between emigrant Finns and their homeland. Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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A new database is now online, ie. a Temperance Society Membership lists from 1917. Material entered by Dick Erickson & Co at SFHS. The database can be accessed here and is searchable in a traditional way. Please note the possibility to search using the "contains" -operator in the different fields!!
A detail view of each record can be chosen by clicking the "View" icon.
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Seattle Order of Runeberg |
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Written by Vern Lindquist
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Dates of entry August 27, 1915 to April 25, 1921.
Alex Koll (my grandfather), secretary
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Corrections to the Caino-Torp book |
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Jan-Erik Nygren has sent the following list of corrections to the Caino-Torp book. View the PDF-dokument here. The document is partly in Swedish/Finnish/English. Write Comment (0 Comments) |
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