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tlwright65
Senior member
USA
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 Posted - 20/02/2007 : 00:40:51
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| is there a good swedish website that has english to try to help find ancestors...like this one? familysearch.org is good, but i'd like to try something else also. Thanks! This website is awesome! |
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Hopkins
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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Posted - 20/02/2007 : 15:27:52
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Try going to Cyndi's List (cyndislist.com) and looking under the topic Sweden. I'm sure there will be lots of online links to websites which might be of use.
At the LDS website under Research Helps you will find an excellent Research Guide for the country of Sweden which will give basic information for types of records available, etc. |
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tlwright65
Senior member
USA
433 Posts |
Posted - 20/02/2007 : 17:15:00
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Jo Anne Sadler
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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Posted - 21/02/2007 : 19:51:11
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I have always said the second best group to be for doing family history research is Norwegian and the best group to be is a Norwegian from Minnesota.
There is so much free, accurate information available from Norway but not so much for Sweden. There are organizations to help but most of it is fee based to pay for expenses.
There are no general census indexes available for Sweden that I know of, you have to know the parish where they came from to search. Researching all the records here is necessary to determine where they came from; marriage, baptism, confirmation, death, etc.
A good place to start in the U.S. is:
http://www.augustana.edu/swenson/genealogy.html
If you know when the emigrated, there is a good chance they are on the Swedish Emigranten CD.
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Hopkins
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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Posted - 22/02/2007 : 15:11:03
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I had to do some Swedish research for a close friend who had very few clues. After we dug in American censuses and records gathering some pretty good dates for births, marriages, immigration years and a few other names for members of the family we turned to the LDS Familysearch website. We got possible hits in three different Swedish locations and planned our research one parish at a time (matter of elimination). In the second Swedish parish we found the correct family - ages and names matched up very well - and they left Sweden at exactly the right time heading for the US. When we were also able to match the unusual name of a sister-in-law and nieces we were sure. The Swedish parish records are available on LDS microfilm.
I think we were quite lucky, but we worked hard too and applied our best deductive skills - an oline volunteer with a costly CD of Swedish emigration information also did a lookup for us when we were looking for the actual emigration and possible port of arrival in the US. The LDS Vital Records index and IGI extractions are not complete and we were lucky enough that the family was included.
Once the correct parish was located we were able to research a family tree to many earlier generations.
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Jo Anne Sadler
Norway Heritage Veteran
USA
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Posted - 22/02/2007 : 18:13:32
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I have that CD and yes, it was costly ($200.) When it first came out it was over $300. and now one can order it for $190. Many local geneological societies have this for research. Here is where it can be ordered and what it contains:
http://www.goteborgs-emigranten.com/
It has an English option. |
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tlwright65
Senior member
USA
433 Posts |
Posted - 21/03/2007 : 03:00:37
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| I forgot all about this question.....I thank you both for your input. I'm finding out that Sweden is very hard to find information from, especially because I don't have exactly where in Sweden they were from. I saw that website, Jo Anne, and it is costly. Maybe one of these days, I can spend the $190 for it! Thanks again!! |
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Christer A
Starting member
Sweden
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Posted - 30/03/2007 : 01:02:38
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Originally posted by tlwright65
I forgot all about this question.....I thank you both for your input. I'm finding out that Sweden is very hard to find information from, especially because I don't have exactly where in Sweden they were from. I saw that website, Jo Anne, and it is costly. Maybe one of these days, I can spend the $190 for it! Thanks again!!
 What info do you have? Maybe I can point you in the right direction! I have access to different CD's including the Swedish censuses of 1890 and 1900.
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tlwright65
Senior member
USA
433 Posts |
Posted - 30/03/2007 : 05:41:33
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| Thank you, Christer. I actually went onto a swedish website that users download information onto.....DISBYT (www.dis.se), and actually found 2 distant cousins of mine! It was great and only cost $15 a year. They gave me a lot of ancestor information which I obviously didn't have. I had some basic information, they verified that we were talking about the same people and the rest is history! My ancestors from Sweden left there in the 1870's and 1880's mainly, but I thank you very much for the offer! |
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Christer A
Starting member
Sweden
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Posted - 30/03/2007 : 13:40:00
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That's a very good site! I'm also a member of DIS and most of my research has been uploaded to their database. It's a goldmine of information and contacts.
LISTEN UP, ALL YOU PEOPLE WITH SWEDISH ANCESTRY!!! Follow Tami's example and explore DIS www.dis.se
Ha dé,
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tlwright65
Senior member
USA
433 Posts |
Posted - 31/03/2007 : 01:11:34
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| Laughing out Loud!! I don't even know how I stumbled upon that site, but it's almost as good as this one!! By the way, what does "ha de" mean? I couldn't get that mark over the e....not sure which button it is! |
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Christer A
Starting member
Sweden
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Posted - 31/03/2007 : 20:19:11
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"Ha dé" is a Norwegian (I'm Swedish) goodbye phrase. I believe the closest translation/equivalent would be "Have a nice day" or "Have a good one" minus the "day" and "one". Maybe a Norwegian can explain better. The pronounciation is something like HAAA DEH! It's very positive...
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tlwright65
Senior member
USA
433 Posts |
Posted - 31/03/2007 : 20:33:01
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| Thank you for the explanation! That's what I thought, but wanted to make sure!! |
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