{"id":836,"date":"2015-07-21T07:43:29","date_gmt":"2015-07-21T07:43:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vrigstadshembygdsforening.se\/?page_id=836"},"modified":"2020-08-18T16:38:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T16:38:12","slug":"information-in-english","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vrigstadshembygdsforening.se\/?page_id=836","title":{"rendered":"Information in English"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Vrigstads Hembygdsf\u00f6rening is a local historical society, in Vrigstad, Sm\u00e5land, in the south of Sweden.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Emigration<\/strong><br \/>\nAbout 900 persons emigrated from Vrigstad during 1852-1930. Almost all of them went to northern America.&nbsp;The society has a complete register of all emigrants from Vrigstad.<br \/>\nRead about Anders Esaiasson who left Vrigstad, Sweden, 1868. <a href=\"https:\/\/vrigstadshembygdsforening.se\/?page_id=1734\">The early settlers and our Ancestors<\/a> by Kenny Johnson.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8221;Med Vrigstademigrater \u00f6ver Atlanten&#8221;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/media.vrigstadshembygdsforening.se\/\/2015\/07\/Emigration.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-117 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/media.vrigstadshembygdsforening.se\/\/2015\/07\/Emigration.jpg\" alt=\"Emigration\" width=\"350\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.vrigstadshembygdsforening.se\/2015\/07\/Emigration.jpg 350w, https:\/\/media.vrigstadshembygdsforening.se\/2015\/07\/Emigration-213x300.jpg 213w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stig Marz has written a book about the emigrants from Vrigstad &#8211; &#8221;Med Vrigstademigranter \u00f6ver Atlanten&#8221;. Here he presents the emigrants from Anders Johan August Johannesson, who left Swdeen 1852, to Mina Creutz, the last emigrant. She left Sweden 1930.<\/p>\n<p>Do you need help to find your roots&nbsp;in the parish of Vrigstad (Vrigstads socken)? Please contact <a href=\"mailto:s.marz@spray.se\"><u><span style=\"color: #0066cc;\">Stig Marz<\/span><\/u><\/a> if you plan to visit Vrigstad and want to prepare your visit here.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo library<\/strong><br \/>\nThe society has a library&nbsp;of almost 6000 photos, the oldest from 1865.&nbsp;They are now published on this web-site. You can order&nbsp;a high resolution image file for any of the photos for&nbsp;10 SEK each.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Web-links<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jkpglm.se\/indexe.htm\"> J\u00f6nk\u00f6ping\u00b4s County Museum:<\/a> Our county museum, with fifteen sites to visit, 112 other local historical societies and nine local museums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vrigstads Hembygdsf\u00f6rening is a local historical society, in Vrigstad, Sm\u00e5land, in the south of Sweden. Emigration About 900 persons emigrated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-836","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrigstadshembygdsforening.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrigstadshembygdsforening.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrigstadshembygdsforening.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrigstadshembygdsforening.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vrigstadshembygdsforening.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=836"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/vrigstadshembygdsforening.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4359,"href":"https:\/\/vrigstadshembygdsforening.se\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/836\/revisions\/4359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vrigstadshembygdsforening.se\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}