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Title: Scandinavian immigrants in Minnesota
Post by: Erato on Thursday 26 May 22 15:34 BST (UK)
Why did Scandinavian immigrants choose Minnesota?

https://www.startribune.com/swedish-norwegian-immigration-minnesota-scandinavian/600174976/
Title: Re: Scandinavian immigrants in Minnesota
Post by: Top-of-the-hill on Friday 27 May 22 22:20 BST (UK)
  I have just managed to read this - it wouldn't let me last night. I was interested as some relatives of my gr. grandfather settled in Minnesota in the 1850s. (Some others moved on to Dakota.) I did quite a bit of research on this family a few years ago. They were not Scandinavian though, solid Anglo-Saxon!
Title: Re: Scandinavian immigrants in Minnesota
Post by: Erato on Friday 27 May 22 22:32 BST (UK)
A good many of mine [but not the direct line] went to Minnesota, too, then on to Oregon and Washington.
Title: Re: Scandinavian immigrants in Minnesota
Post by: brigidmac on Saturday 04 June 22 23:33 BST (UK)
It wouldn't let me read it so didn't copy link to send to Anglo Swedish society in Gothenburg

They'd be interested tho don't know if they have any American members mostly Brits .

I have DNA matches from a Scots gold miner who connects to Canadian lumberjacks with a lot of Scandinavian DNA ...I did wonder if it was one person or several generations

Top of hill what did you do differently to get it open ?
Title: Re: Scandinavian immigrants in Minnesota
Post by: Erato on Saturday 04 June 22 23:57 BST (UK)
Try opening it in a private window.
Title: Re: Scandinavian immigrants in Minnesota
Post by: Treetotal on Tuesday 07 June 22 23:19 BST (UK)
When I tried to open it, it was greyed out except for a box to take up a subscription.
Carol
Title: Re: Scandinavian immigrants in Minnesota
Post by: brigidmac on Wednesday 08 June 22 02:17 BST (UK)
What's a private window ?
I.ll ask at my next computer lesson .

Could you screenshot of copy and paste a section please.
Title: Re: Scandinavian immigrants in Minnesota
Post by: mckha489 on Wednesday 08 June 22 02:23 BST (UK)
Quote from: Treetotal on Tuesday 07 June 22 23:19 BST (UK)
When I tried to open it, it was greyed out except for a box to take up a subscription.
Carol

I just tapped the screen outside the subscription box, and was able to read it.
Title: Re: Scandinavian immigrants in Minnesota
Post by: Erato on Wednesday 08 June 22 02:40 BST (UK)
"What's a private window?"

I use Firefox.  If I right click on that link [or on any link], I get the option of opening the link in a new tab, a new window or in a private window.  I use the private window option a lot because often, though not always, it permits one to open links that require a subscription.  I can get some Washington Post articles that way, also Newsweek and numerous other newspapers.  It doesn't work with the NY Times, the LA Times or the Boston Globe.