My great-grandmother was Josephine Hjersted (after looking at this board, I am sure we are misspelling her name) who came to Chicago from Sweden in the 1880s roughly. She married Oscar Anderson. They had 3 children Ellen, Roy and Elmer. Does this family possibly tie in with any of the others. All my Swedish ancestors were located on the far southside of Chicago, in or close to the Pullman district.