Tracing Swedish heritage can be difficult

[Dick R.]

My Mother's name was Hanson, her fathers name was Hans Neilson,
and her grandfather was Neils Larson. Difficult to trace, yup!
Dick R.

[Hugh Watkins]

Dick R. wrote:

My Mother's name was Hanson, her fathers name was Hans Neilson,
and her grandfather was Neils Larson. Difficult to trace, yup!
Dick R.

for an amateur who does not read swedish and know the local community
and their web sites

dates, places and occupations ae missing in your silly statement

patronyms often help greatly

Hugh W

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[Dick R.]

Hugh Watkins wrote:

Dick R. wrote:

My Mother's name was Hanson, her fathers name was Hans Neilson,
and her grandfather was Neils Larson. Difficult to trace, yup!
Dick R.



for an amateur who does not read swedish and know the local community
and their web sites

dates, places and occupations ae missing in your silly statement

patronyms often help greatly

Hugh W

Hi Hugh,

I can only rely on faintly remembered oral history from my mother who
died 30 years ago. Silly? Whatever.
Dick R.

[Hugh Watkins]

Dick R. wrote:

Hugh Watkins wrote:

Dick R. wrote:

My Mother's name was Hanson, her fathers name was Hans Neilson,
and her grandfather was Neils Larson. Difficult to trace, yup!
Dick R.




for an amateur who does not read swedish and know the local community
and their web sites

dates, places and occupations ae missing in your silly statement

patronyms often help greatly

Hugh W

Hi Hugh,
I can only rely on faintly remembered oral history from my mother who
died 30 years ago. Silly? Whatever.
Dick R.

not at all

when and where was she born / married / died

lets get a dialogue going

if you share all data some users of thsi group are very proficiant and
live in Scandinavia

BTW middle names are important too

good hunting


Hugh W

--
For genealogy and help with family and local history in Bristol and
district http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Brycgstow/

http://snaps4.blogspot.com/ photographs and walks

GENEALOGE http://hughw36.blogspot.com/ MAIN BLOG

[Dick R.]

Hugh Watkins wrote:
<snip>

lets get a dialogue going

Hi Hugh,

My information on my mother is woefully inadequate. I'll have to
do some digging into old stuff. I still have her passport from the 1920s,
and photos of her as a young woman (in my opinion, she was pretty cute!).
She left me and the grandkids many fond memories - but she didn't leave
me her recipe for Swedish meatballs!
A dialog is a good thing, let's continue!
Dick R.

[Hugh Watkins]

Dick R. wrote:

Hugh Watkins wrote:
snip

lets get a dialogue going

Hi Hugh,
My information on my mother is woefully inadequate. I'll have to
do some digging into old stuff. I still have her passport from the 1920s,
and photos of her as a young woman (in my opinion, she was pretty cute!).
She left me and the grandkids many fond memories - but she didn't leave
me her recipe for Swedish meatballs!
A dialog is a good thing, let's continue!
Dick R.

my passport gives date and place of birth

doing genealogy is just detective work in slow motion,
you need to learn how to and follow the standard procedures

other clues will be in any old letters from Sweden espec ially post
marks on envelopes and post cards

plenty of volunteers will help with translations

I do danish, english and welsh genealogy as my specialities

but I was in Sweden to read film of a local nespaper in Helsingborg
last week and I saw what the central library - Stadsbibliotek - had to offer

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hughw36/se ... 833274409/

I view as slide show until I see what I want
here
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hughw36/1294868065/

Your Swedish Roots
a step by step handbook

Per Clmensson & Kjell Andersson

Ancestry

on ofer
http://www.amazon.com/Your-Swedish-Root ... 1593312768


Product Details

* Hardcover: 222 pages
* Publisher: Ancestry Publishing (November 1, 2004)
* Language: English
* ISBN-10: 1593312768
* ISBN-13: 978-1593312763


they had two computers with geneline.se
and a swedish handbook as a family history corner by the Fakta locla
history collection

and if swedish librarians recommend it it should be good


I keep many of my notes as snapshots on Flickr

http://www.flickr.com/photos/hughw36/sets/

I also use old fashioned notebooks



and also have written a couple of blog posts on Swedish genealogy

search GENEALOGE http://hughw36.blogspot.com/ my MAIN BLOG
and follow the links

BTW google is your friend
http://www.google.com/search?source=ig& ... gle+Search

http://www.genealogi.se/roots/


and
http://www.genline.se/



enjoy

Hugh W
--
For genealogy and help with family and local history in Bristol and
district http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Brycgstow/

http://snaps4.blogspot.com/ photographs and walks

[dn18596]

Hi
Your mother was the daughter of Hans. In older times she would have been called Hansdotter (daughter of Hans). Hans Neilson is simply son of Hans and grandfather Larsons father was probably Lars. Simple is it not?

This naming method has not been used for more than hundred year or so in Scandinavia, but in Iceland they still use it. It makes the telephone directory very complicated for the non-islanders.

Niels (son of Nils)