How to Find Your Ancestors in Sweden
- Those of you doing research on Swedish ancestors should check out the
VERY helpful website run by Dr Fredrik Haeffner: the SweGGate web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~swewgw/
- Another useful site with many interesting things can be found at http://members.home.net/sefaqs
- Cathy's Genealogy Page has information on the Emigranten
CD, the SVAR archives, and people who can do lookups in specific books and
microfiche.
- There is an on-line database of the 1890 census for parts of Sweden at http://www.foark.umu.se/census/Index.htm
- A good website to find towns and places in Sweden: http://www.calle.com/world/sweden/index.html
- Jerry Longstrom has started a database of people doing
Swedish-American genealogy, with the names they are researching, and the
places. Check the list or register your own interests by going to http://longstrom.com/
and clicking on the "Areas of Interest for Sweden and the USA"
link (near the top of the page.) Jerry also has English instructions
on how to use the Rotter forum. On the main page, scroll down to the
Swedish-to-English button, and then look around. Lots of good stuff.
- The Rotter forum is at www.genealogi.se
- We hear a rumor that many Swedish churches in the US have had their
church books microfilmed, and the films are at the Swenson Swedish
Immigrant Research Center in Rock Island, IL. The web site is www.augustana.edu/administration/swenson/fhguide.htm
We also hear that
there is a list of these churches on the Emigranten CD, under SAKA.
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