This is going on at The Åland Islands´ Emigrant Institute:
The exhibition at The Åland Islands' Emigrant Institute opening hours
August 9th 2007 The Emigrants day at the Önningebymuseum Current!
The Åland Islands' Emigrant Institute is now open
The Åland Islands´
Emigrant Institute Society is open weekdays 12 noon until 4 pm.
Now you can read the latest membership reports.
Feel free to ask questions or write your opinion about our website in our
guest book.
We wish to obtain information from you about emigrants fråm the Aland Islands.
Please, read more about our Emigrant Database here.
Haddon Hubert Sundblom’s Santa Claus illustrations
The eminent commercial artist Haddon Hubert Sundblom’s Santa Claus illustrations are currently featured at the Åland Museum in Mariehamn in a joint venture with the Åland Islands’ Emigrant Institute, a follow up of the Åland Post release of this year’s Santa Claus stamp.
We are most grateful to the Hallmark Cards, Inc.
for granting us their benevolent consent so that we at last can enjoy and
take pride in this our island’s own son’s achievement.
Haddon Sundblom hails from this small Finnish
island of Åland, located just off the Finnish coast in the Gulf of Bothnia.
His father Carl Wilhelm Sundblom was born and grew up here but emigrated to
Chicago, Ill., at the age of 37 with his wife and four children. After
becoming a widower he remarried the Swedish born emigrant Karin Andersson.
Their youngest son Haddon was born in 1899.
Haddon became a renowed commercial artist and
produced prize winning advertisements for such giants as Ford, Good Year,
Palmolive and Maxwell House Coffee but became most noteworthy for his
Coca-Cola Santa Claus which still stands unsurpassed.
His Sundblom family on the Åland Islands still
owns and uses the farm and homestead in the community of Föglö, and
proudly took part in the Opening of the Christmas exhibition honoring their
relative at the Åland Museum on November 22.
The Christmas exhibit will go on until January
13, 2008.
The Åland Islands' Emigrants Day 2007
"Emigrants day 2007" is celebrated on Thursday 9th of August at 6:30 p.m. in
Önningebymuseet, Jomala
(The Onningeby colony).
In rememberence of the emigration from the Åland Islands the Åland Postoffice
is issuing a stamp with a emigration theme. First Day Cover stamping will take place in the
localities between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m.where the postage stamp motive is a painting by the
Artist Ture Bengtz (1907-1973), who studied and later lectured at The Boston
Museum of Fine Arts School i Boston, Mass.
To honor the 100th anniversary of Prof.
Ture Bengtz' birth theThe director of the Önningebymuseum Kjell Ekström will
present a memorial exhibition.
Beverage with snacks and pleasent get together is promised!
Welcome!
The Åland Islands' Emigrant Institute and
Åland's Museum proudly presents "Finlanders in S:t Petersburg"
The Åland Islands' Emigrant Institute and Åland's Museum proudly presents
"Finlanders in S:t Petersburg" first shown in S:t Petersburg at the city's
300 year festivities produced by the Swedish-Russian Society in Finland and
"Ålanders in the Russian Empire" presented by The Åland Island's
Emigrant Institute together with the Sitka Godenhjelm Rescue Project part II.
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An Emigrant Database is under construction
Mrs Yvonne Blom continues her work with the Åland Emigrant Database and has now
scanned through the local paper until 1960. Still there are much material to scan
through e.g. the Society Åland members lists. We now hope to raise funds to finance
to her on going work. At the moment the database contains more than 500 persons.
In the coming future we hope to make parts of the database available on Internet
for the benefit of those who search their ancestors. About 10 000 persons have
emigrated from Åland during the last 150 years.
We are very thankful to any information of emigrants from Åland.
Please give your contribution by filling
in this form about the emigrants
you have knowledge about. The information you feel is confidential can be
entered into the field marked "Notes".
"European Migration Heritage Week 2 - 9
October 2005
The first official European Migration Heritage Week will be arranged
2 - 9 October 2005. During the week the AEMI (The Association of European
Migration Institutions) Annual Meeting will be held in Paris arranged by
Générique. Participants and representatives of the Åland Islands' Emigrant
Institute will be Chairman Erik Lindholm and Susanne Österlund-Pötzsch, Ph.D.
and the very first coordinator of the Institute, who will keep us informed
about what is being discussed and what is going on in Paris.
The Åland Islands' Emigrant Institute will contribute to "The European
Migration Heritage Week" by reporting to the local newspapers and the
local broadcasting company.
For more information:
www.aemi.dk .