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Comment by Sue Pearson Greichunos on December 30, 2010 at 2:35pm

Lynn, what a wonderful resource!! Thank you for the link! Happy New Year to all my fellow Swedish researchers... and to all on GenealogyWise.com...  Or perhaps I should say, Lyckligt nytt År!

Comment by Lynn Anderson on December 19, 2010 at 12:30am

Parish maps

Here is an online source for parish maps. Visit...

http://www.gis.scb.se/atlas/RikIndAtlas1992/index_en.htm

 

note that these are modern maps with the new parish boundries but still useful for some research.

Comment by Sven-Ove Westberg on September 24, 2010 at 6:57pm

Before 1901 the where no law that regulated the name. Most people used patronymic. After the 1901 law patronymics was forbidden and you need a familyname.

Comment by Pete Val on September 24, 2010 at 3:18pm

I also have a question involving a name change. An ancestor was listed as Jan Ollson and his son is listed as Anders Berggreen. Why the changes?

Comment by marguerite Sykes on August 27, 2010 at 6:40pm

Sort of related is one of my ancestors changed name to Venerous. One of my Swedish relatives thought it might have been that he held a position of honor. Is that a possible explanation?

Comment by Richard Dahlqvist on August 27, 2010 at 11:28am

Sue!

One explanation to the namechange of your grandmothers grandfather is that there might have been quite few persons in the same parish with the same name.

And one way for your grandmothers grandfather to separate himself from the others is simply to take a different surname or add to his existing.

One way to do that was to take a name that described either which parish, town, village or even farm.

I don't know what village or town he lived in or what the name of the farm was.

Comment by Sue Pearson Greichunos on August 17, 2010 at 9:17am

Can any of my Sweden experts out there explain to me why my paternal Grandmother's paternal grandfather (got all that?)... would be "JAN JANSSON" on household examination record after record, until the 1841-1845 HER, when suddenly he's "JAN JANSSON KULLA," after which his son, Anders, carries the name Anders Jansson KULLIN, and HIS daughter, my grandmother, becomes Hilma Charlotta KULLIN...??? On three different records I've also seen the name spelled Kulla, Kuhlin, and Kullin. Can someone explain this? Also, Jan Jansson's eldest son (b. 1818) is recorded as Jan also, until he marries and separates from his father's household and then he's recorded as "Janke". How would "Janke" translate? In U.S. we have sometimes sons named Jonathan, shortened to John. Is this somehow similar? If so, what would be a full translation of "Janke", perchance? Thank you for any help. ~ Sue

Comment by Sue Pearson Greichunos on August 12, 2010 at 10:52am

Annelie ~ I cannot thank you enough for your help deciphering the document on Nils & Cajsa and for pointing me to the website for the Nordmarks Museum! It is wonderful background for understanding where my Father grew up. My Father and three of his brothers emigrated to the United States in the early 20th Century, and three of the four brothers were what we refer to here as "die sinkers," working in the steel mill industry, two in Massachusetts, my Father in Indiana. One of the brothers, according to family rumor, returned to Sweden, leaving a wife and daughter here in the States, and no one knows what (really) happened to him. His name was Johan Adolf Persson, b. 26 April 1892 at Gävle, Gävleborgs. As a side note, I'd really love to know if, in fact, he DID return to Sweden and when he died and whether he remarried/to whom/ etc. Lots of questions.

I also checked out the Swedish Roots website, and WoW! what a wealth of knowledge is there also. I am very grateful to you for your help and direction to these websites and for everything.
Best regards, Sue

Comment by Annelie Jonsson on August 12, 2010 at 7:57am

Sue - Cajsa are from"därsammastädes" and means the same place. So the both are from Stjelpet.

/Annelie

Comment by Sue Pearson Greichunos on August 12, 2010 at 6:44am

That's wonderful Annelie, thank you. I thought I could make out "Stjelpet" pretty well, but I wasn't sure.

But the real challenge is determining the village name after Cajsa Carlsdotter's name. Is there any way you can read that name? It looks like it starts with the letter "L", and there are a couple of "m's" in the middle, but I couldn't make out more than that.

I looked and looked for a village name in Värmlands län that looks similar to the vague spelling I could make out but with no luck. Please can you help!? I'd like to be able to find the names of this couple's parents if I can. Thank you for all your help.

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