Identification of connection to people in business and personal trip to Norway and Sweden shown in a
I have inherited an album from my paternal grandparents given to them after their business/personal trip to Norway and Sweden in the ?1950s/60s from "the Child", and Michael. It is a mystery as to who the people are apart from my grandparents. There are two named people Marianne Eriksson, and Mrs Lowenhjelm. There is also a loose picture of a young man in a naval uniform who may also be in one of the pictures in the album. The album has headings for different parts of the trip.
As background, my greatgrandfather James McMillan started up a company in Glasgow in the 19th century (bought from a Graham Bell) dealing with telephones, and iron ore in Russia, Norway and Sweden and the UK. He went to Norway/Sweden in the 1910/1913s for a year with his brother. I do not know who they stayed with but they had close business connections there including with AB FERROLEGERINGAR and ERICSSONs. I hope to examine the company records (held at London Metropolitan Archives) further at some stage.
Does anyone have any ideas about how best to progress this. I attach a few of the photographs from the album
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What an exciting project! One thought that I have:
Add these pictures to your FamilySearch Memories Gallery. I would suggest that you create two individuals in FamilySearch Family Tree for Marianne Eriksson and Mrs. Lowenhjelm. Add whatever information you can interpolate from the photo album (how old do you think they were? can you tell which country they were each in?) Then you can attach the images to the individuals you have created in FamilySearch Family Tree. Since the Family Tree system tries to find duplicates, somewhere along the way, someone may bump into your individuals and recognize the pictures as of their relative and then merge the two individuals.
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Many thanks, great idea. Have done so
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