Genealogy Social
Sweden and Swedish Ancestry
This group is for anyone interested in Swedish ancestry, or resources.
H-Swedish Patronymic and Common Name
Please leave your "H" Swedish surname here. This is an example of how you could leave your post to make it easier for researchers to find. Please leave their Swedish patronymic name and common name if you know them. We are using the surname "Petersen" for an example.We will change the example when we have an H surname to use.
Peterson Morris John or (Persson Magnus Johan)
Born 07 Jun 1848 in Katteberg, Skärstad, Jönköpings Län, Sweden.
Died-Unkown
His Sister-Sofia Johanna or (Anna Peterson in America)1875 emigrated to the United States
She lived in or near Rock Island, Illinois and Ottumwa, Iowa
No other information known at this time
Peterson Morris John or (Persson Magnus Johan)
Born 07 Jun 1848 in Katteberg, Skärstad, Jönköpings Län, Sweden.
Died-Unkown
His Sister-Sofia Johanna or (Anna Peterson in America)1875 emigrated to the United States
She lived in or near Rock Island, Illinois and Ottumwa, Iowa
No other information known at this time
Kristen Holquist Waite
Holquist, Gustav Adolf, or (Hultqvist, Gustav Adolf)
Born 08 March, 1863 in Högsby, Kalmar län
Emigrated to the United States in mid-1880s.
Died in Omaha, NE in 1925.
His brother, Frank F. Nelson, also emigrated to the United States and lived in Bay City, MI.
They may have also had a brother named Charles (or Carl?)
Gustav was married in Omaha, NE, to Karin Persson, born 10 June, 1866 in Kalmar
Emigrated to the United States, mid-1880s.
Died in Omaha, NE on 11 March, 1954.
Jul 23, 2012
Emily Sandberg Randall
If this landed in the wrong place, I beg your pardon
HOLMIN HALMIN
My father's grandmother was Elin Helmina Cecilia Holmin, born June 21, 1859 in [familysearch.org records:Rackkekarrs, Hjo Landsfors, Skaraborg] alternatively, in my great-aunt's memory: Kungsbaka or Vanersborg. She was one of seven children of Lars Gustaf Holmin.
She emigrated with her son, Carl in 1890, to join her husband August Sandberg in Ashland, Wisconsin. Second son Hilmer was born in Ashland. Widowed soon after, she married in 1900, Anders Fred Sundberg in Ashland. Second marriage brought the beloved aunt who was our 'family bible'.
I am hoping to find a record of Elin's marriage to August Sandberg in Sweden. The story is that her family was bourgeois and considered him beneath her her socially.
Before emigration, the couple had a child called Pamela, who died at about the age of 7, and Carl, b. 1887. I have not yet found their baptisms.
Elin's family is somehow entwined with the family of her daughter-in-law, Florence Brown, whose mother Mary Brown, [Maria Cristina Johansson] had a sister who married Elin's brother Emil Oskar. Mary also prepared for her wedding in Elin's home in Ashland. Mary's sisters who remained in Sweden also married people known to my aunt.
I am new to Swedish genealogy, and finding it quite a challenge to navigate the abundance of records and the slipperiness of naming -- people and places both. Elin's grandchildren have put everything we 'know' together, We're blessed with a great deal of oral history and memoir, but have few of the skills needed to find these people in their context.
Apr 2, 2013
M Graham
Hello- Can anybody tell me where to post a question about my family if I have an L and an A and a W and an E Swedish surname? They seem to follow each other from Sweden to Burlington, Iowa and either live together or next to each other. I hope I did not break any rules by asking this, but I never seem to find any Swedish post that is recent or find a Swedish chat room to ask a question. Thank you.
May 25, 2013