52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks #41: "Travel" - Ellis Island and our ancestors

Prompt #41 (Oct 8 - Oct 14): "Travel"- Ellis Island and our ancestors

I imagine the longest, most intense, anticipated yet scary trip my grandparents took was when they traveled as immigrants to the United States. They traveled to the United States via Ellis Island, my grandfather in 1907, my grandmother in 1909. 

Many of their family also took the long trip from Sweden to America, through Ellis Island.

My grandfather's siblings and their spouses: 
    Sister Sarona (1904) and her husband Hugo (1893)
    Sister Olga (1902) and her husband Uno Markus (1903) 
    Sister Tekla (1907) and her husband Rikard (1909)
    Brother Patrik (1901) and his wife Margrete Maria (1901)

    Brother Botvid (1901)

My grandmother's siblings and their spouses:
    Anna (1913) and her husband Emil (1911)
    Ruth (1914) and her husband Anders (1910)

And too many aunts, uncles, cousins and friends to mention here.

Between 1821 and 1930 approximately 1.3 millions Swedes emigrated. Most traveled to the United States but some also went to Australia, New Zealand, South America and Canada. Perhaps 200,000 Swedes returned to Sweden (great uncles Botvid and Patrik returned) but at least 1 million stayed.

If you often wondered what the trip through Ellis Island itself was like? This was an interesting read.

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WHAT LIFE WAS LIKE FOR AN ELLIS ISLAND IMMIGRANT

Well if grandma and grandpa Kallman hadn't left Sweden, their son would not have met the daughter of Norwegian immigrants, and me? Well, I wouldn't be here.

Thank you grandma and grandpa,

 From Amy Johnson Crow, a genealogist, far more experienced then I. "The data that we've accumulated in our genealogy software and in our binders and folders doesn't do a whole lot of good just sitting there. We need to do something with it." Each week she sends out a prompt to share a bit about an ancestor, collateral relative, or family friend.