Professor Seeks Historical Data

In an atteuftt to obtáin more , historical data about Scandimvian- immigrants to Michigan, Robert M. Warner, director of the U-M Historical Collections, will visit a number of archives in Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland this month. He w i 1 1 be seeking letters sent by immigrants to their homelands describing conditions in Michigan. A large number oí 1 v i a n immigrants carne to I Michigan, Warner notes. pie from Finland, for example, populated large sections of Michigan's Upper Península. ín addition, there are sizable colonies of Swedes and Danés and a sprinkling of Norwegians. Ve fow these pëoplë were . litera te," Warner states, Uherefore.'they must have written back accounts of what Sy found when they carne to the New World. Hfa pers too may have published a iTumber of these accounts. Many families realizmg the tx traordinary nature oi I theii : iel atives' journey to the Umted I states must have saved their Ketters bitten from the New I World." ..',, Warner feels certain tnat ne Ja uncover m u c h valuable material because the Michigan ffistorical Collections already has similar types of material witten by Europeans to their relativesin Michigan He „M for example, the tíons contato a notable cmection of letters written frora he Tubigen área of Germany in the 1850's through the 187C i s to their relatives who had set tled in Ann Arhor. "several Scandinavian archSs have indicated they . L ,L„ Poninsula of ti(m of immigrant maten „ritten byseltlers in M62l-SnSríKon,butWInex. KÏhovisit the Michigan Histoncal Collections. After completing the Scandinavian yisit, Warner wültrav eltoMoscowwherehewúlat tend the 7th International Congress on Archives.