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Note: Per Linn�a Jonsson's research from the Augerum church record, Albin went to Halla p� Gotland on 29 Nov 1901. He returned 6 Feb.1903. Then he left Augerums Parish for the USA on 13 March 1903. Halla is a parish in Gotland.
His ship left Malm� on 23 March 1903 per the emigraten/ emihamn paper copy I have. It is believed that this ship went to England where he transferred to a larger ship bound for New York. The name of the ship from England was the Cymric
Albin went to a farm near LaRose, Marshall county, Illinois where he worked we believe until after harvest time. The farmer had evidently paid for the transportation. After that, we believe Albin and his brother Ernest went to Cloquet, Minnesota to work as lumberjacks in the big white pine forests. I think he did this for two winters. He also probably went to his cousin's farm in Hamilton, North Dakota to work during the summer. That was Carl (Charlie) Nordstrom. Both the husband and wife, Anna Marie, were cousins to Albin, so he had good reason or opportunity to go there. My father mentioned these activities to me when I was a young boy at home.
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