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I remember seeing a tv special about ABBA on PBS in the US back in the 1980s. One of ABBA's music tour stops was Minneapolis/St Paul, an area with high Scandinavian ancestry in the US. The members of ABBA were looking up Swedish names in the local phone book, so some Scandinavians did have an interest in ancestry in the US.