I've been working with Elsie Martin and Bjorn Stockman of the SA's Swedish archives (see previous thread) on the Emelie PETTERSON case (important early SA pioneer in Sweden). In the process, we've uncovered other family members, notably the JANSE, VICTOR, SODERLUND and HUBBARD families, who MAY also have been Salvationists. It is possible that descendants have valuable information about Emelie PETTERSON, information that may have come down to them through their families. We would very much like to hear from anyone who is either descended from these families or know of people who may be related to them.

The VICTOR family flived in Chicago after immigrating in 1902. They were Carl and Ericka VICTOR, daughters, Mary and Thelka, and son, Hugo. Sometime before 1910, Thelka appears to have gotten married. After 1910, Carl, Ericka and Hugo moved to Kitsap County, Washington. In 1920, Carl Victor was a seaman. He died in 1927.

Thelka VICTOR lived at 6750 Honore Street, Chicago in the 1920s, though we do not know the name of her huband.

Anna B. Victor, born about 1885, married Marcus SODERLUND in about 1907. A son, Richard V. SODERLUND, was born in 1907. This family lived in Eagle Harbor, Kitsap, WA in 1920; in Seattle, WA in 1918; and in Liberty, Kitsap, WA in 1930. Marcus SODERLUND's occupation was capain of a sailing boat.

It is thought that Mary VICTOR, who was 15 years old and living with her family in Chicago in 1910, married and had children, but it is not known where she lived or who she married.

Hugo VICTOR, Carl's son, appears not to have married, but lived with the SODERLUNDs in 1920. He, too, was a seaman, and was born about 1895.

Emelie's husband, Edward G. JANSE, had a sister, Mrs. Aurora HUBBARD, wife of William HUBBARD, who lived in Chicago in 1900 and 1910. She was born sometime between 1846 and 1855.

Any help will be greatly appreciated.