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Titel: SV: Charles Matthew Strandberg
Skrivet av: Anders Väppling skrivet 2018-04-09, 22:09
Hi Melinda,


Oh, that's interesting. Apparently this man has done a lot of research on Swedes in South Africa. I'll try to get a hold of him and see if he knows anything else about Charles Matthew!


I tried looking at the computer software Emigranten Populär 2006, a register of Swedish emigrants, but could find no trace of them. There are police registers of emigrants available online for Gothenburg (https://www.arkivdigital.net/sources/4438) and Malmö (https://www.arkivdigital.net/sources/4436) through ArkivDigital (a subscription based service) but that would mean plowing through thousands of pages only hoping to find something of interest. Then there is also Emiweb (http://emiweb.se/) (subscription based, Swedish emigration register) that could help, but I think that's only in Swedish.


Coetzee is on the other hand a very "South African name", so it wouldn't surprise me if they met in some country other than Sweden.


But I hope something interesting comes out of the original records in South Africa, because if he was indeed from Sweden I think we need some more information to be able to find him; a birth year and/or a birth place. Hopefully the records contain at least some piece of further information!


Best regards,
Anders