COMPLETE Blom Family Genealogy
Swedish West coast to Hull, England. Then they went by train from Hull to Liverpool and from Liverpool by ship to New York or Quebec. After 1880 all the ships were steamboats and the journey then took about 12 days. The Wilson shipping line did most of the transfers from Gothenburg to Hull. That journey took 2 days.”9 See Appendix D for other information. Pictured above is a painting ("The Emigrants" by Swedish artist Knut Ekwall, (1843-1912). This painting depicts the artist's vision of what the Atlantic crossings could be like for the immigrants.)10 that was done to depict emigration from Sweden. For more information on Goteburg as a port of departure for the US, see Appendix A. Further research has discovered that from Gothenburg to Hull, Matti took the Steamer “Orlando.”11 Additional information on this Steamer is in Appendix B and some information on the travel from Gothenburg to Hull is provided in Appendix C. Below is a picture of the ship12. We don’t know for sure how Matti got from Ylistaro to Göteborg. One would assume by train and or possibly a ferry from Vaasa to Göteborg. Göteborg is on the western coast of Sweden. The port resides in the mouth of the river depicted in the map below from 180913.
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http://www.algonet.se/~hogman/swe_genealogy.htm#Other%20records, “Genealogy in Sweden”, accessed 17 September 2001 http://www.americanwest.com/swedemigr/pages/emigra.htm, American West-European Emigration, accessed 17 September 2001 11 e-mail dated 20 September 2001 from [forskning@svenskaemigrantinstitutet.g.se], The Swedish Emigration Institute with follow-up mail with copies of ships list and photo of ship Orlando 12 http://longstrom.com/shipsinformation.htm#Orlando, accessed 24 September 2001 13 http://ostindiska.educ.goteborg.se/Kartor-Bilder/gbg1809.htm, accessed 20 September 2001 10
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