I would like you all to meet someone...

"Hello, My name is Sigrid Nilsson. I was born in Småland in 1866. When I was 18 I got maried Henning Nilsson. We lived happy for a few years but one bad thing after the other happened. One year it was too cold, and the other it was too dry so our vintage got destroid. 1886 my parents died in tuberculosis. 2 years later Henning died iin a terible accident so now I had noone left. That was when I decied to go with some of the people in my village to America. My big sister had moved there a few years earlier and she had asked me and Henning to go over there. But Henning didn't want to. Now as I was all left alone decided to go, what other choice did i have? stay in småland and starv?

During the 3 week long boattrip to America I became a member of a sect that one of the people from my village was leader for. Her name was Hilda Matilda ans she gave me hope of a better life and that everything would go alright. She told me that both my parents and my dear husband was in heaven with Jesus and his angels. She was so nice. When we hade been on the sea for about a week she got sick and I think she was near death, but we prayed for her and she soon recovered. That must have been an action from God. Other people on the boat that got sick and died, she said that they didn't have the right faith.

When we got to New York my sister and her husband meet up with me and took me to their home. Hilda Matilda and the rest of her people was going to some place called Wisconsine, I was really tempted to follow them but decided to stay with my sister. I promised Hilda Matilda to remember everything she learned me.

That was how I, a young girl from Småland ended up in Amerika.

It was nice to meet you all, and I might come back some other time and tell you more about my life in amerika. Oh and as the Christmas is soon here I would also say have a God Jul!"