Alaska: Swedish American

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Archives
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ELCA Regional Archives Region 1: Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington Kerstin Ringdahl Mortvedt Library Pacific Lutheran University Tacoma, WA 98447 Phone: (253) 535-7586 E-mail: ringdak@plu.edu Website: http://www.plu.edu/~archives/

History
Three Lucky Swedes

Discoverers of the Nome Gold Fields in 1898 were Jafet Lindeberg, a Norwegian, and two Swedish born American citizens, John Brynteson and E.O. Lindblom. For more information about the history and culture of Nome, Alaska see http://www.visitnomealaska.com/nome-history-culture.html

For photographs of the three lucky Swedes see http://vilda.alaska.edu/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/cdmg21&amp;CISOPTR=1811

Societies
Alaska Historical Society P.O. Box 100299 Anchorage AK 99510-0299 Telephone: (907) 276-1596 Email: members@alaskahistoricalsociety.org Website:https://alaskahistoricalsociety.org/ Anchorage Genealogical Society P.O. Box 242294 Anchorage, Alaska 99524-2294 Website:https://anchoragegenealogy.org/