The Foreign Language Press Survey contains translations of articles which were published in Chicago foreign-language
newspapers between 1855 and 1938. The Chicago Public Library Omnibus Project of
the Works Progress Administration translated the articles in 1942. About
120,000 articles were translated. The translations were microfilmed and
digitized, and in 2009 a new digital transcription was created. 22 different
ethnic groups are represented in the collection. The majority of the articles
are from Bohemian (Czech), Danish, German, Greek, Jewish, Lithuanian,
Norwegian, Polish, Russian, and Swedish publications.
In this collection, I found a translation of a list of 46 real estate transactions in Chicago in which the buyer, the seller, or both were Scandinavians. It appeared in the May 2, 1905 issue of the Swedish newspaper Svenska Nyheter. One of the buyers was Axel E. Olson, the husband of my great-great-grandmother's sister Minnie Borg.
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