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Författare Ämne: Two emigration dates  (läst 686 gånger)

2010-03-01, 02:22
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When two emigration dates are given for a person, does the first mean the time when they left their place of residence and the second the time when they actually sailed from the nearest port? Did emigrants have to get some kind of exit permit from their place of residence in Sweden before going to a port?  Thanks for your help.

2010-03-01, 14:22
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Mary, I think you are perfectly right.  
 
When moving from one place to another, people were supposed to bring a permit from their home parish to the new parish. The Hfl (Ingela Martenius explained) may contain a note of the permit issued when a person moves. There are also separate lists (Flyttningslängd) of all the permits issued in each parish. The date of the permit is the day it was written, possibly a few days before they moved.
At the port, the police authorities kept records of emigrants. Some shipping companies also kept passenger lists.
 
You have been lucky to find more than one date for an ancestor. For various reasons, some of these records are not available today. Also, towards the end of the 19th century some emigrants just left their homes without any paperwork or worked their way on a ship to another country. The records of their home parish will show them as parish residents who cannot be found there (Obefintlige).

2010-03-01, 19:31
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Not a permit. A certificate. You were free to move out of a parish - but you were not allowed into another parish unless you could show you had the means to support yourself (and your family of course): you had bought or leased a farm or had employment there.
 
The certificate had to be brought by the person who was moving since it was also a sort of doemstic passport. You were not allowed to move around in Sweden at will unless you could show that you could support yourself; independent means, owning a farm (or factory etc.), being sent on a mission by your employer etc. - or taking up new employment.
 
All shipping companies had to make upp passenger lists (same as today, also airlines) but not all passenger manifests have been preserved.
 
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2011-08-06, 22:21
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