"Hugh Watkins" <hugh_watkins@net.dialog.dk> wrote in message news:ailemk$14v7ju$1@ID-71976.news.dfncis.de...
> Jurgen Otto Strumsholt St. Hedinge, Denmark 1921 21
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> USA spelling of Jørgen Otto Strømsholt
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http://199.106.235.191//search/passSearch.asp
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http://www.ellisisland.org/default.asp?
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> just found him
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> now Phoenix Arizona where he died
Just back into the system and registered and found hís fiancee next above on the ships manifesto
http://www.ellisisland.org/
The family could remember her first name only
Hansen, Anna Nielsen F 21y S Danish, Scand St. Hedinge, Denmark
they sailed from Copenhagen
on Hellig Olav
and arrived April 20, 1921
I have access to USA census on line through my Society of Genealogists in London where we have several machines in the cellar with
subscriptions
to the various US data bases.
Hellig Olav
Built by Alexander Stephen & Sons, Glasgow, Scotland, 1902. 9,939 gross tons; 515 (bp) feet long; 58 feet wide. Steam triple
expansion engines, twin screw. Service speed 16 knots. 1,170 passengers (130 first class, 140 second class, 900 third class).
Built for Scandinavian American Line, in 1902 and named Hellig Olav. Copenhagen-New York service. Made some Hamburg-New York voyages
for Royal Mail Lines, British. Scrapped in 1934.
nice photo full steam ahead
looking at the original manifest gives much more data
Louis F. Peronard was the master
better stop here
NO ! now I find them also lists occupation and next of kin
I have Jørgen's father but Anna'a mother and address is a find
All typed on a Danish typwriter with correct spelling
destination Pilger (not Phoenix as a family member said)
Is there an achive of the Scandinavian American Line surviving ?
Hugh W