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VASA RELATED LINKS

VASA LODGES AND GROUPS:

We have selected some Lodges with interesting sites for you to visit. For a complete list of Vasa Lodges, or to find a Lodge close to you, please visit the Grand Lodge site.

DL Pacific Southwest No. 15

Scandinavian Lodge No. 667

Baltic Lodge No. 689

Nordic Genealogical Soc. of So. California

Grand Lodge

South Florida No. 554

Södra Sverige District Lodge No. 20

Norra Sverige District Lodge No. 19

OTHER VASA RELATED LINKS:

Concordia Language Villages in Minnesota offer summer language camps. District 15 offers scholarships to help qualified applicants attend one of the Scandinavian Language camps: Danish: Skogsøen - Finnish: Salolampi - Norwegian: Skogfjorden - Swedish: Sjölunden.

Glenn T. Seaborg was of Swedish descent and a Nobel-prize winner in Chemistry in 1951. Glenn T. Seaborg Lodge No. 719 in Laguna Hills is named after him.

Bishop Hill was founded in 1846 by Swedish religious dissenters. It is now a museum and designated historic site and houses the Vasa National Archives.

A SELECTION OF SCANDINAVIAN LINKS

Scandinavian News in English:

Scandinavia Now - Scandinavia News

Consulates in Southern Calfornia

Swedish Schools in Southern Calfornia

Genealogy:

AmScan Genealogy Resource page

Cyndi's Scandinavian Links

Finnish Genealogy

The Swenson Center

Skåne Genealogy

Phone books online:

You can find white pages online for the Scandinavian countries, except for Finland.

Denmark - Norway - Sweden

Iceland (This site is a bit tricky, because it has no English explanation, and you may have to replace some letters in a name with the Icelandic letters listed under the search box. But once you've figured it out, it works.)

Åland (an autonomous island located between Sweden and Finland). Site in Swedish only.

Scandinavian People and Places

in Southern California:

House of Pacific Relations in Balboa Park, San Diego

Nansenfield, located in the city of Rolling Hills Estates on the Palos Verdes Peninsula.

American-Scandinavian Foundation of Los Angeles

Scandinavian Cultural Center, at California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks.

General Links:

Gotland

Norwegian Seamen's Church

Scandinavian Studies Web

Scandinavian Connections