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
What are the moving in and moving out records? The moving in and moving out records, Inlfyttningslängd and Utflyttningslängd, list everyone that moved in or out of a parish. However, it only has those who moved between parishes. If you moved houses within the same village it was only noted in
Scandinavia Did you know that Scandinavia only is three countries? Well, it depends on who you ask. But Norway, Denmark and Sweden make up Scandinavia. At least if you're asking anyone from those countries. That's the definition of Scandinavia in Scandinavia, so to speak. In the English
The secret of seasoned genealogists There is a way to save years in your family history research. Did you know? I must admit it hadn’t appeared to me before I came across the idea. But it’s really quite simple. You make a research plan. Personally I love browsing the records just to see
How to use the Swedish Death records Among the most important genealgoy records are the Death records. So let's have a look at how to read them. First, some background. Like most records used for family history, the Swedish Death records were kept by the Church of Sweden. They can look a
that keeps being told. She became my tour guide through the Sweden she was getting to know. My daughter Sara was studying abroad and invited me to join her for a whirlwind mother-daughter experience. While we made new memories together, she was sharing her perspective on the moments she had
In many ways, family history in Sweden is easy. All Swedish residents were listed in Household records. In them are usually notes about moves, births, deaths, and other events. The earliest you will find start in the 17th century. So you can learn a lot about your Swedish family. At least as long
A lot has changed since 1850 The Swedish emigration started 170 years ago. A lot has changed in the world since 1850. Sweden may be one of the countries that have changed the most. When you think about Sweden today, it’s not obvious what life was like for our ancestors. Many things are
It’s always fun to see a picture of an ancestor for the first time. I don’t know whether the eyes are really the windows to the soul. What I do know is that you can often learn a lot from a portrait just by the way the people are dressed. You can usually recognize some facial features from yourself
