Sweden and Swedish Ancestry

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Comment by Lynn Anderson on August 11, 2009 at 11:47am

The only Holmberget I found is an actual mountain ("berg" actually means mountain) in a remote part of Kopparbergs Län about 60 km due north of the city of Borlänge and some 150 km north and east from Filipstad. (Reserchers in Sweden abbreviate Kopparbergs lan as W)
My source was KAK bil atlas.... a very good map book put out by the Swedish auto club.

Holmberget may be a farm name. Do you have a parish or any other bigger place name? There could be a number of farms in Sweden called Holmberget. What is it close to?

Comment by Richard Dahlqvist on August 11, 2009 at 6:34am

John, I will during the next few days see if I find any Smith born in and around 1846 in Stockholm.
But I don't hold high hopes. Tens of thousands of children were born in Stockholm that year and around that year.

Comment by John Patten on August 11, 2009 at 4:56am

Richard, the approximate date of birth I have for John Smith is around 1846. The first record I have of him is marrying in November 1874 on the gold fields of Victoria, and then 1876 when his first child was born. So there's quite a gap between records. I've checked the UK for potential mentions in the census, but until I find his shipping record among the many John Smiths and J Smiths, I'll struggle to narrow it down. Even looking for naturalization records, I found a number of Swedish John Smith's and none of the certificate images seemed to be the right man.

Comment by Richard Dahlqvist on August 11, 2009 at 3:31am

Hi again John!

Do you know roughly when he came to Australia?
And do you know if he left directly for Australia from Sweden?

Comment by John Patten on August 11, 2009 at 3:21am

Hi Richard,

Thanks for taking interest. Sadly, no I don't know anything about John's life in Stockholm. I haven't yet been able to even determine when he came to Australia, and if it was with his parents, or if they were left behind in Sweden. Beyond his father Edwin Smith's occupation (a clerk) and John's (carpenter) their lives are a total mystery to me.

Comment by Richard Dahlqvist on August 11, 2009 at 3:03am

Hi John Patten!

Well, the name John Smith isn't all that common here in Sweden.
The problem though in your case is that Stockholm is a nightmare to check.

You really need the correct parish within Stockholm the even begin to think about checking his life.

Do you have ANY information about when or exactly where in Stockholm your ancestor was born?

Cheers
Richard

Comment by Richard Dahlqvist on August 11, 2009 at 2:56am

Hi Sue!

Due to privacy laws here in Sweden, information and databases concerning now living persons and information younger than 70 and some odd years, are not allowed to be publiced online.
That information however can be accessed through other avenues.

I have acces to the Household Axamination Protocols for Filipstad all the way back to 1743.

I can also check the death records for people who has died between 1947-2006.

If you could send the information you gave about your family, I could do a quick check in the records I have available to me.

Also sending this as a private message to you Sue!

Cheers
Richard

Comment by Torill Johnsen on August 11, 2009 at 12:47am

Hello Sue

The Sweeds have their Houshold Examination Protocols and that will give you lots of interesting information.

Censuses as you have in the US and we in Norway are not used very much in Sweden.

Go here: http://www.genealogi.se/roots/ and look for more information on Sewdish Genealogy.

Comment by Torill Johnsen on August 11, 2009 at 12:36am

Hello Sue

Finding records after 1920 is not always easy. They might not be online yet. I have not had time to check your area, but there are two other possibilities, ArkivDigital and SVAR. The first is a firm entering information like Genline the second is the state archive.

I looked sat Holmberget here: www.eniro.se insert the place name in the box "var". The result is 11 different locations, so maybe you know a little bit more and can pick your rigt Holmberget.

Comment by Sue Pearson Greichunos on August 11, 2009 at 12:35am

And I almost forgot: I had tried to locate specific Household Examination records (the Swedish version of a census, I presume) for my grandparents' household, but it is very confusing how to sift through them (unsure how they're organized) or if Filipstad, Varmland, was even available via Genline.com. Has anyone had any experience finding information via the Swedish Household Examination records?

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