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<p>[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 265733, member: 59"]I saw the Fold3 records in your Google list and went straight to Ancestry to see them. All I needed was his full name, approximate birth year and voila!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's a bit more - his wife (and 4 children) did not come over until 1920. And he went back (after his first arrival in 1910 at least once in about 1915.) His occupation of painter if the regular "house painting" type, not the "artist" type (which is too bad given the skill evident in those drawings.) He registered for the WW1 draft and gave his wife's address as Helsingborg, Sweden.</p><p><br /></p><p>He seems to have died about 1962.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 265733, member: 59"]I saw the Fold3 records in your Google list and went straight to Ancestry to see them. All I needed was his full name, approximate birth year and voila! Here's a bit more - his wife (and 4 children) did not come over until 1920. And he went back (after his first arrival in 1910 at least once in about 1915.) His occupation of painter if the regular "house painting" type, not the "artist" type (which is too bad given the skill evident in those drawings.) He registered for the WW1 draft and gave his wife's address as Helsingborg, Sweden. He seems to have died about 1962.[/QUOTE]
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