Immigration Records

On some genealogy websites, you have access to literally hundreds of thousands of immigration records. These include the main port of Ellis Island. But, there are, however, other points of entry that an immigrant could use to get into the country. One of which is is Philadelphia.

Some immigrants used other areas of the country to come through, such as the border between the United States and Canada. My grandfather Cardona's grandmother on his mother's side came to the United States from Montreal, Quebec, Canada, for example.

I have spent alot of time on his site showing you records from my side of the family, or telling stories about them. This time however, I wanted to share a record with my most frequent visitor to this site. That being my Uncle David.

Uncle David's father's side of the family was from Sweden. His (Uncle David's) grandfather, Johannes (Johannes was Americanized as most imigrant names were at the time. Johannes translated to John) Lodin came to this country, early in the 20th century to start a new life for his family.

I was doing a search for Johannes earlier today, and came across a record of his border crossing from Canada. This however was not his original port of departure. He had left Grimnas, Sweden and ended up in Liverpool, England, which is where he departed Europe from, bound for Canada. The date of arrival in Canada was October 31, 1924. Johannes and his wife, Ida, along with sons Ivan and John, were headed to Detroit, Michigan to be with Johannes' mother Erika, who allready lived there.

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***Update*** For some reason, the image in its original form, when downloaded from Ancestry.com to post on this site, is not clearly viewable when downloaded from here. So, I apologize for the size of the image that is now on this site, but it is the only way it will be clearly viewable to you, the reader.

Johannes and his family start on line 16.