VASA ORDER OF AMERICA - DIVERSE RESOURCES FOR DCLs
(Prepared by GCD A.C.Harvey, GL Convention 2006)

Emigrant Register/Kinship Center
Bryggan/The Bridge
Box 331
SE 651 08 Karlstad Sweden
 http://www.emigrantregistret.s.se 

Swedish Genealogical Society of Minnesota http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnsgsm/ 
Thomsen's Genealogical Center
Box 588
Bountiful, UT 84010
Karen Livsey, genealogy
Fenton History center
library@Fentonhistorycenter.org

Everton's Genealogical Helper
P.O.Box 368
Logan, UT 84323-0368
 http://www.Everton.com 

Family Tree magazine

Your Swedish Roots by Per Clemensson and Kjell Andersson
Cradled in Sweden by Carl-Erik Johansson
Remembering series by Jennifer Johnson and Holly T. Hansen

Publishing Family Histories Large and Small at 
http://www.myancestorsfound.com/products.htm

Swedish Council of America (Exec. Dir. Elise Peters)
2600 Park Ave.
Minneapolis, MN 55407
Ph: 612-871-0593
 http://www.swedishcouncil.org 
 swedcoun@swedishcouncil.org

Swedish American Museum Center
5211 N. Cark Street
Chicago, IL 60640
773-728-8111
 http://www.swedishamericanmuseum.org

Concordia College language camps (Sjölunden)  
 http://www.concordialanguagevillages.org 

CD-ROMs:
1890, 1970, & 1980 Censuses of Sweden
CD-Emigranten-several databases including Swedsh port indexes, and database of US members of the VOA
Sveriges Dödbok, deaths in Sweden 1947-2003
Indexes to Scandinavian Heads of Household in the 1870 and 1910 US Federal Censuses
Svenska Ortsnamn
Sjöfolk (about 700,000 Swedish sailors registered in 10 Sjömanshus)
Begravda i Stockholm (480,000 burials in Stockholm)
Gamla Stan under 750 år (includes inhabitants of Stockholm's Old Town 1878-1926)
Klara Inhabitants (Klara parish in Stockholm 1878-1926)
Söder i Våra Hjärtan (inhabitants of parishes on the Stockholm island of Södermalm ca. 1900)
The Painter of Bishop Hill: Olof Krans 1838-1916
How to Start a Youth Club (request it from MEB William Lundquist)
Drömmarnas barn, powerful radio theatre play about Bishop Hill, produced by Sveriges Radio. VOA has permission to make max. 10 copies for lodge use. In Swedish.
Contact: A.C.Harvey, GCD Music:

From Sweden to America (Caprice 21552, 1996)
Memories of Snoose Boulevard, Return to Snoose Boulevard, Scandinavian in the New Land (OLLE i Skratthult Project, Minneapolis) with Anne-Charlotte Harvey -out of print

Swedish Christmas with Anne-Charlotte and Ellen Harvey (Skandisk MCD 5701)

Ljus och Hopp: Mässa i folkton (Swedish mass, set to folk music, for choir and soloists)
Contact: DCL Richard Maris, DL 13 Pacific Northwest

Fridthjof and Ingeborg (1898), viking opera by Carl Fredrik Hanson, for orchestra, choir, and solists. A number of other compositions, including Scandinavian folk songs set for choir and piano.
Contact: A.C.Harvey, GCD.

Wax cylinder recordings from the early 1900s:
 http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/organizations/u/university_of_california/index.html?inline=nyt-org
(Donald C. Davidson Library, UCSB)

Cylinder Digitization and Preservation Project Web site:
 http://cylinders.library.ucsb..edu (downloadable period popular music from early 1900s)

Books:Hjärtan

BOOKS:BOOBOOYour Swedish Roots by Per Clemensson & Kjell Andersson (Genline) Cradled in Sweden by Carl-Erik Johansson
Swedish Genealogical Dictionary by Phyllis Pladsen
(order at http:// home.netcom.com/~v31ry/ )
Swedish Chicago by Paul Michael 'Peterson
If We Could Only Come to America: A story of Swedish Immigrants in the Midwest by Robert J. Nelson
On the Viking Trail: Travels in Scandinavian America by Don Lago
The Log Cabins of New Sweden (Delaware) by George Ambrose
Witness in Bishop Hill by Sara Hoskins Frommer (murder mystery)
Hilda Johansson Mysteries (several titles) by Jeanne M. Dams, about a Swedish maid in Indiana who solves crimes
Learning and Returning by P.O. Grönberg (return migration of Swedish engineers)
Stockholm on the Rio Grande by David E. Vassberg (Stockholm, TX)
Churches in Minnesota by Alan K. Lathrop
Swedish Americans by Tiffany Peterson (children's book from "We Are America" series)
The Swedes in Omaha and South Omaha 1889 by Louise Bloom Baumann, reprint of original from 1889
Jumpin' Jimminy-A World War II Baseball Saga: American Flyboys and Japanese Submariners Battle it Out in a Swedish World Series by Robert Skole
Swedish Handcraft by Anna-Maja Nylén, trans. Anne-Charlotte Harvey, of Swedish original Hemslöjd
Mike and Else's Swedish Songbook, historical notes and ed. Anne-Charlotte Harvey
"Performing Ethnicity: The Role of Swedish Theatre in the Twin Cities," by Anne- Charlotte Harvey, in Swedes in the Twin Cities, ed. P. Anderson and Dag Blanck
"Swedish-American Theatre," by Anne-Charlotte Harvey, in Ethnic Theatre, ed. Maxine Seller
Bishop Hill. En svensk koloni på prärien by Olov Isaksson
Historien om Bishop Hill by Olov Isaksson
Mot löftets land by Ulf Beijbom
A Folk Divided by Arnold Barton
Letters from the Promised Land by Arnold Barton

Articles:
"When Swedish America was Founded: Emigrant Letters with Commentary by Albin Widen," translated for the Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, Springfield, IL, published by DL 19 and DL 20, Vasa Order of America, no date.

School curriculum guide:
Bishop Hill, Sweden's Doorway into Illinois, by Mark Wyman for Illinois State Library and U of Northern Illinois,
can be viewed at http://www.lib.niu.edu/ipo/iht629902.html

Internet translation site:
 http://www.lexikon.nada.kth.se/skolverket/swe-eng.shtml

Maps:
 http://www.kartbolaget.se

Place names:
 http://www.sna.se/gazetteer.html

Swedes in Canada Project, headed by Elinor Barr, Thunder Bay, Ontario
 http://www.swedesincanada.com

Upsala College alumni web site http://www.upsala.org

Swedish Women's Educational Association (SWEA) http://www.swea.org

The Bridge/Bryggan ($30/year)
Representative in the US: Mr. Rod Johnson,
12301 Cabana Lane, Austin, TX 78727

Scandinavian Seminar
24 Dickinson Street
Amherst, MA 01002-2309
study@scandinavianseminar.org
 http://www.elderhostel.org

Materials for cultural programs and activities of the VOA:
Todd Anderson, GL Audio Visual Director
1383 Middlebrook Way
Rohnert Park, CA  94928 USA
707-694-1345
audiovisual.vasaorder@yahoo.com 
 http://www.vasaorder.com/audiovisual.htm

Rambo Apple project:
Herbert Rambo
 HerbertRambo@Comcast.net
Ph: 856-768-5325

In Sweden: Hans Ling
 Lidman.ling@privat.utfors.se
Ph: 46-18-138087

Sound recordings and samples from 1930's-60's
Owe Eriksson
 http://www.minnesboxen.com
 owe.eriksson@minnesboxen.com