Your Swedish Roots
A Step by Step Handbook
1st Edition
Published on 1. November 2004
228 pages
978-1-61858-969-9 (ISBN)
Description
Get a start on your Swedish family history with Your Swedish Roots, a step-by-step handbook to help guide you in researching your Swedish ancestors. First, learn general information about Sweden, Swedish naming practices, and the Swedish language. These basics will help you research names of ancestors and search through Swedish records with greater ease. Next, learn what Swedish records are available, where to find them, and how to use them. Swedish church records will be one of the most value to you, as they are very complete and well preserved. Finally, follow sample cases on particular Swedish families to learn helpful research steps for your own family history. As you learn about your Swedish ancestry, you will experience the rewarding feelings that come from seeking out and discovering your ancestors.
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Content
- Intro
- How to use Genline FamilyFinder
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- PREFACE
- CHAPTER ONE - A NAME ON A GRAVESTONE
- WELCOME TO SWEDISH RESEARCH
- CHALLENGES OF SWEDISH RESEARCH
- ABOUT OUR CASE
- CHAPTER TWO - CLUES TO YOUR FAMILY'S HISTORY
- HOME SOURCES
- AMERICAN RECORDS
- CHAPTER THREE - THE EMIGRATION FROM SWEDEN TO AMERICA
- ONE OUT OF FIVE EMIGRATED
- ECONOMIC FACTORS MOST IMPORTANT
- REASONS FOR EMIGRATON
- EARLY SWEDISH IMMIGRANTS
- A FIRST GROUP OF IMMIGRANT
- STEAMSHIPS CUT TRAVEL TIME
- THE MASS EMIGRATION BETWEEN 1879 AND 1893
- THE SWEDISH CITY OF CHICAGO
- MANY SWEDES MOVED ON
- FROM WHERE DID THEY COME IN SWEDEN?
- GOOD FOR BOTH PARTIES
- THE TRAVEL ROUTES
- CHAPTER FOUR - HOW TO FIND THE PLACE OF ORIGIN IN SWEDEN
- SWEDEN - A GENERAL PICTURE
- LANDSKAP - Provinces
- LÄN - Districts, "counties"
- HÄRAD - Counties
- SOCKEN - FÖRSAMLING - Parish
- MOTHER PARISHES AND ANNEX PARISHES
- ADDRESSES
- KOMMUN - Today's Municipalities
- NAMES OF FARMS AND VILLAGES
- ROTE [ROOT-EH]
- BLOCKS AND STREET NUMBERS
- IN SUMMARY
- CITIES IN SWEDEN
- CITIES IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
- CHAPTER FIVE - SWEDISH NAMES AND SWEDISH SPELLING
- DIFFERENT FORMS OF SON-NAMES
- DIFFERENT FORMS OF FIRST NAMES
- FAMILY NAMES
- NAMES FROM OTHER COUNTRIES
- OLD AND NEW SPELLING
- SOME EXAMPLES OF OLD AND NEW SPELLING
- ALTERATION OF SWEDISH NAMES BY IMMIGRANTS TO AMERICA OR CANADA
- GOOD TO KNOW ABOUT THE SWEDISH LANGUAGE AND SWEDISH SPELLING
- STANDARDIZED SWEDISH SPELLING
- LATIN AND GERMAN WRITING
- CHAPTER SIX - WHERE TO FIND YOUR SOURCES
- WHAT CHURCH RECORDS CONTAIN
- CHAPTER SEVEN - THE RAPP FAMILY IN U.S. SOURCES
- THE RAPP FAMILY IN PORTLAND
- THE RAPP FAMILY IN THE U.S. FEDERAL CENSUS 1900
- SHIP'S MANIFESTS IN NEW YORK AND OTHER PORTS
- CHAPTER EIGHT - GUSTAF ADOLF RAPP's FAMILY
- LEAVING MÖLLTORP
- THE RAPP FAMILY AT HULAN
- HOW TO FIND THE PLACE (HULAN)
- GUSTAF ADOLF'S BIRTH
- GUSTAF ADOLF'S FAMILY IN RANSBERG
- THE MARRIAGE BETWEEN GUSTAF ADOLF RAPP'S PARENTS
- GUSTAF ADOLF'S MOTHER'S DEATH
- CAUSES OF DEATH
- ABBREVIATIONS OF NAMES
- GUSTAF ADOLF'S FATHER BECOMES A HUSSAR IN 1853
- WRONG BIRTH DATE FOR ANDERS GuSTAF RAPP
- HOW TO FIND THE FATHER OF A CHILD BORN OUT OF WEDLOCK
- CHAPTER NINE - ANNA CHRISTINA CARLSSON'S FAMILY
- ANNA CARLSSON IN MÖLLTORP'S BIRTH AND CHRISTENING RECORDS
- CHAPTER TEN - FINDING YOUR ANCESTOR IN SWEDISH PASSENGER LISTS
- PASSENGER LIST FOR THE STEAMSHIP ORLANDO
- CHAPTER ELEVEN - EARLY EMIGRATION
- AN EARLY EXAMPLE: CARL FREEMAN (FRIMAN) AND HIS SONS
- AN EMIGRANT IN THE 1850s: IVAR ALEXIS HALL
- CHAPTER TWELVE - TRAVELING WITH THE SWEDISH AMERICAN LINE
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN - OLD RECORDS
- THE OLDEST CHURCH BOOK IN RANSBERG
- TRANSLATION:
- WHAT CAN WE SEE ON THIS PAGE?
- THE EARLIEST BIRTH RECORDS IN RANSBERG
- WHAT CAN WE SEE ON THIS PAGE?
- OTHER OLD RECORDS
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN - FINDING YOUR FAMILY IN SWEDEN TODAY
- WHAT HAPPENED TO THE RAPP FAMILY IN SWEDEN?
- USEFUL DATABASES
- CHAPTER FIFTEEN - PREPARE FOR A TRIP TO SWEDEN
- MAPS AVAILABLE ON THE INTERNET
- CHAPTER SIXTEEN - MEETING THE SWEDISH FAMILY
- GUNNAR LAGERIN - AGDA MARIA'S GRANDSON
- CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - SWEDISH PROVINCES
- SKÅNE (SCANIA)
- BLEKINGE
- HALLAND
- SMÅLAND
- ÖLAND
- GOTLAND
- BOHUSLÄN
- VÄSTERGÖTLAND
- DALSLAND
- ÖSTERGÖTLAND
- SÖDERMANLAND
- STOCKHOLM
- UPPLAND
- VÄSTMANLAND
- NÄRKE
- VÄRMLAND
- DALARNA (DALECARLIA)
- GÄSTRIKLAND
- HÄLSINGLAND
- MEDELPAD
- HÄRJEDALEN
- JÄMTLAND
- ÅNGERMANLAND
- VÄSTERBOTTEN
- NORRBOTTEN
- LAPPLAND
- CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - DICTIONARY
- SWEDISH WORDS COMMON IN THE CHURCH BOOKS
- ABBREVIATIONS
- CHAPTER NINETEEN - APPENDICES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE BOOK
- INDEX
