Pettersson, Karl - born in Sweden 1855
My name is Anna-Lena Carlström, a Swedish woman of 54 and I have just taken up my father's genealogy research and will now start a "mission impossible" trying to trace a missing emigrated ancestor, hoping to possibly find living relatives in the States.
My father's mother's father, Karl Pettersson, was born on January 24, 1855 in the parish of Ödeshög, province of Östergötland, Sweden. He left his family and went to America and stayed there between 1889-1904, when he returned to Sweden for a short time. In 1905 he finally returned to the States and shortly after the contact was broken. He left one daughter, 9 years of age when her father left in 1889. She was then brought up by Karl's mother, Lovisa Juliana Eriksdotter. Karl also had two sons in Sweden, but both died around 1904-05, one in a train accident and one from illness. The daughter became my grandmother, who died in 1970 at the age of 90. Her name was Hilda Amalia Pettersson, later on married to Carl Teodor Carlström. Karl also had two younger sisters in Sweden, named Hulda and Alma.
My father is still alive and will be 80 in November this year and it would be very nice if I could present him with some new relatives, perhaps even cousins, over there. There are still many relatives of Karl in Sweden.
Tthe only address the family ever had to Karl was
131 Farmington Ave, Hartford, Connecticut.
I do not know if this address is from his stay during 1889-1904 or from after his return in 1905.
I have tried myself to look in some registers on the internet, but with no luck. And as I know that only a very small part of all existing registers can be found on the internet, I now hope that there are other lists and registers that someone may have access to, or could advice me how to approach.
Since both my father and my grandmother have reached rather old age, Karl Pettersson may have done so too. Which means that IF he lived til 90 (=1945) there could still live some old people remembering him. He may have called himself Persson instead of Pettersson in America and probably spelled his first name with C instead of K.
I do hope someone could find something for me.....
With my best regards,
Anna-Lena Carlström
Vadmalsvägen 6
S-178 37 Ekerö
Sweden
Tel +46 8 56030030
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