SWEDISH GENEALOGY
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
I’m a firm believer in looking at data to understand the world. That includes the world our ancestors lived in. But some things are hard to capture in charts. Fiction can be a great tool for understanding how our Swedish ancestors lived. The books below will give you a sense of what Sweden was
In this post I’ve gathered everything you need to know about geography and place names in Sweden for your family history. Bookmark this page and come back, because this page is continously updated. Historical geographical terms Get a good start by reading about the words used. If you want
The Swedish provinces, landskap, were the main subdivision of Sweden before 1634 [1]. After that the counties were instituted. You might think of the provinces as states in the early Sweden. They had their own laws. In the south of Sweden, where the majority lives, the provinces are often an
