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- Title
Roots in reverse.
- Authors
Setterdahl, Lilly
- Abstract
The article offers information on the family of Kurt Persson of Uppsala, Sweden. Persson has come to the Quad Cities region of Iowa and Illinois multiple times in order to trace his family's history. His mother was born in Moline, Illinois, but later moved back to Sweden. The author discusses her experience taking Persson to the Swenson Center at Augustana College as well as the Rock Island Historical Society in order to conduct genealogical work. Persson was able to trace his family's movements from Illinois to Minnesota and back to Sweden.
- Subjects
MOLINE (Ill.); QUAD Cities (Ill. &; Iowa); ILLINOIS; IOWA; FAMILY history (Genealogy); PERSSON, Kurt; SWEDISH Americans; EMIGRATION &; immigration; GENEALOGY; HISTORY associations; AUGUSTANA College (Rock Island, Ill.)
- Publication
Swedish American Genealogist, 2009, Vol 29, Issue 4, p8
- ISSN
0275-9314
- Publication type
Article