About the Swedish website The starting point for the Swedish website is the 2 500 letters collected in Kinda. It is from this collection most of the material used in the Swedish website comes. The collection has been used to find letters telling us about how the Kinda emigrants describe their travel, why they emigrated, how their first time in America was and so on. The purpose is also to shed light on other marks from our emigrants such as photos, songs et cetera. In order to put the Kinda material into a Swedish context there are articles about the emigration from a national and regional perspective. The period described is from the middle of the 19th century until about 1920.   Links The Czech Republic Ireland Italy Poland