SWEDISH GENEALOGY
Finding details about your Swedish ancestor New records are coming out online all the time. But there’s an old trusted tool to use. The Swedish newspapers. What if you want to learn more about your Swedish ancestor's trial. Or perhaps your family emigrated before 1869, when the archived
Most Swedish emigrants left the country from the ports in Gothenburg, Gothenburg and Bohus County. The Swedish name is Göteborg, but Gothenburg has been the official name in German and English since its founding. Gothenburg is now the second largest city in Sweden, filled with trams, with the
Where you find the mantal number Have you seen that number in the margins of the Household records? It’s usually a fraction. The number may also be written above the household. Sometimes it’s followed by the word mantal. Often it also says oförmedlade, förmedlade, or for short ofm mtl, fm mtl or
Medieval roots Glad midsommar! Midsummer in Sweden is an old tradition. Swedes often joke about it being our unofficial national day. Midsummer was first documented in Sweden in the year 1555. At the time it was celebrated with dancing in the light of bonfires in the fields or in the town
Maybe you have seen the word torp, croft, in your Swedish genealogy. An ancestor may have been a crofter, torpare. Or your ancestor was a soldier and lived at a soldier’s croft, soldattorp. But what is a Swedish croft? The modern Swedish Croft is an old cottage Today the word croft makes
Lucia in memory of saint Lucy Swedes celebrate Luciadagen, St Lucy's Day, on 13 December. You have probably heard of it before, but what is it? It is an event in memory of the catholic saint Lucy, Lucia. Originally, St Lucy's Day fell on winter solstice. This was when Sweden followed the
Church of Sweden You might have read that church records are important genealogy sources in Sweden. Isn't that a little unreliable? There is an explanation. Until July 1991 the Church of Sweden handled civil registration in Sweden. It might seem odd that an external organization handled
