Carla Edberg – Passenger List

Eureka! I feel like I found a gold mine. Here is the passenger list for Carla Ingrid Maria Edberg.
Ship: S.S. Arabic sailing from Liverpool, England
Date: October 8, 1912
Arrival: October 17, 1912
Passenger: Carla Ingrid Maria Edberg
Age: 20
Marital Status: Single
Friend: A. W. Austin
Occupation: Nurse
Residence: London, England (1 1/2 yrs.)
Kin: Father – [...]

Fritz Olson – Passenger List

Eureka! I have discovered a the passenger list for Fritz Olson. I confirmed that this is our Fritz Olson because Carla Ingrid Maria Edberg also traveled upon this same steamer. Here is what this passenger list reveals:
Ship: S.S. Arabic sailing from Liverpool, England
Manifest Date: September 10, 1912
Arrival Date: September 18, 1912
Passenger: Fritz Olson
Age: [...]

Farewell to Home

This 1905 postcard entitled Farewell to Home depicts emigrants bound for England and America on steamer at Goteborg, Sweden. This is near the time that Fritz and Carla emigrated and gives us a glimpse as to a scene that may have been familiar to them a few years later.

Carla Olson ~ Name Surprise

On March 31, 2005 I received a response to my query to a genealogy research specialist in Goteborg, Sweden. I was trying to get detail regarding Carla Ingrid Maria Edberg and Fritz Werner Olsson. As Olsson is a common name I need to supply them with some additional information about Fritz. Much [...]

Fritz & Carla Olson ~ 60th Anniversary

Fritz C. Edgar Olson (1915 – 2007)

WRENTHAM – Fritz C. “Edgar” Olson, 91, of Garden Lane in Wrentham, died on Thursday, May 17, 2007 at Caritas-Norwood Hospital in Norwood. He was the loving and devoted husband of Lillian S. (Apsit) Olson.
Born in Boston’s Dorchester section on July 13, 1915, he was an otherwise lifelong Wrentham resident. He was a son of [...]