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Comment by serena clarkson on March 15, 2014 at 10:00pm

 Gustaf Adolf FerdinandSvensson. Född 1864-02-08 i Höreda (F). [3]   i can not find anymore information on my great grandfather, can anyone help me?

Comment by Janet Johnson on March 15, 2014 at 6:30pm

Check out this weekend, arkivdigital.com is free. High resolution images of Swedish church records.

Comment by Don Johnson on March 15, 2014 at 6:27pm

Hi,

I am researching Johan Albert Björkman born in Drängsered, Halland on 21 Jun 1878. I have traced him to Snöstorp, Halland in the 1912+1922 Clerical Survey. He is found on page 731 on line 11. Is there someone that can look this record up and tell me where he moved to? I am not able to read and decipher the place listed there. Thanks for any help. Don Johnson

Comment by Dana Kelly on March 15, 2014 at 5:13pm

Lynn,

I appreciate all of your knowledge and work on my behalf. I'm elated to now know the names of my 3rd great grandparents. My husband and I are hoping to visit Sweden next year so now we can both visit where our people came from. His ancestors came from Persburg Grouvor, Varmsland. I found the Swedish website you recommended and it has lots of good information. Thanks again! 

Comment by Lynn Anderson on March 15, 2014 at 1:10pm

Dana Kelly

Re Anders Carlsson *1/1 1824  

I found an Anders Carlsson born 1/1/1824 from Vårgårda. It took a little searching! 

1. I suspected that the village name you had posted as "Vargarda in Vestergotland" county should have been spelled with at least one Swedish letter å as in ...gård, a Swedish word for (small)farm.Using Google search Vårgårda finally materialized as the actual name in Swedish. NOTE  the Swedish letters ÅÄÖ are very important, particularly for finding place names. They appear after ...xyz in the alphabet. By the way the current county name Västra Göteland is only a few years old (1998). Your village was in Älvsborgs län (county) which may be spelled Elvsborg in old records.  Genealogical research is typically done with the old county names.

Once I got the spelling I found Vårgårda on the map. I used both Google map and my KAK Atlas from the Swedish auto club. The big problem was finding the PARISH where the records are kept. There are several in the area. I searched Kullings-Skövde, Algutstorp, and Fullestad birth records on ArkivDigital (my local Family History Center has free computer access to ArkivDigital. The three major digital archives of Swedish records, SVAR, Ancestry.com and ArkivDigital all are subscription for service. Finally I looked in the parish Siene and found it covered Vårgårda (why I cant say, the others are closer!)  On wiki.FamilySearch.org, I did look at the farm name lists for the first three parishes and I should have looked at Siene because there it is. I could have done that from home.

The household examination record shows Anders as a new child in a big family with Parents  Carl Andersson and Annika Persdotter. I can send an image of the page from the register. Siene AI:3 (1812-1826) Image 17 / page 25

We should probably move this conversation to the C page if I can figur how to do it.

Comment by John N. on March 12, 2014 at 4:02pm

Swedish National Archives are free this weekend.

http://www.arkivdigital.net/products/adonline/try-for-free?utm_sour...

Comment by bcarney on January 1, 2014 at 1:57pm

Thanks all for the feedback from my Dec 21st posting.

-Bill

Comment by Dana Kelly on December 31, 2013 at 10:14pm

I'm looking for the parents of both Anders Carlson b. 1 Jan. 1824 Torrbacken, Vargarda, Vastergotland, Sweden d. 8 April 1907 Ringo Lake, Dovre, Kandiyohi, Minnesota and his first wife Anna Maria Sellers b. unknown d. 5 June 1866 Dovre, Kandiyohi, Minnesota. They came to Minnesota from Sweden with four children. She died just eight days after they arrived. One of their children was my great grandmother, Mathilda Carlson b.18 Oct. 1864 Sweden (I don't know where in Sweden) d. Oct 1934 Superior, WI.

Comment by Slægtens Historie on December 28, 2013 at 3:21am

As a professional genealogy researchers, we have access to a lot of Swedish sources.Can we help you?

slaegtenshistorie

Comment by Lynn Anderson on December 27, 2013 at 6:45pm

This excerpt presumably came from a Household Survey. Your post shows a husband, his wife, their toddler son and a (unmarried) male farm hand.  The farm hand came from Odeby parish in Örebro county (column title probably says birth place).          Ödeby parish is in Glanshammars härad (district) and since 1974 part of Örebro kommun (a municipality) near and including the city of Örebro about 90 miles west of Stockholm. If you Google Ödeby socken (copy the letters so you get the Swedish characters) you will see a picture of the church.     (My family came from this county.)

Ödeby socken i Närke ingick i Glanshammars härad och är sedan 1974 en del av Örebro kommun i Örebro län.

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