Swedish Genealogical Tour in September 2005
The 2005 SwedGenTour group at the workshop at Family History
Library, Salt Lake City
The 2005 SwedGenTour is over
The SwedGenTour 2005 is now over, and the Swedish group has return safely to Sweden. We estimate that we met and were able to help between 200 and 300 Swedish-American researchers. We hope that all of you who attended the meeting found useful tools and new clues to your own research.
If you press the link Photos to the left, you can see some photos from the tour.
This web site with info on useful databases and links will remain open, but we close down the possibility to submit research queries as it was intended to prepare for the trip. If you have research queries, we recommend that you write them at the Anbytarforum at the Federation's web site.
Below is the original tour page.
Olof Cronberg
Original Tour page
In September 2005, the Swedish Genealogical Tour will visit Salt Lake City, Seattle and Vancouver. We will participate in lectures and workshops to help and assist Swedish-Americans finding their Swedish roots. We will have access to several Swedish databases with genealogical data, some of them not yet published. With the expert knowledge from the SwedGenTour group, we hope to help you be able to start your search for you Swedish roots or to solve your problems if you don't know how to proceed.
Program
Sept 5-6: Workshops and lectures at the Family History Library, Salt Lake City
Sept 8-10: Participation at the FGS Annual Conference, Salt Lake City
Sept 11-12: Workshops and lectures at the Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle
Sept 14-15: Workshops and lectures at the BC Genealogical Society, Vancouver, Canada
On this tour, six well known Swedish genealogist will participate representing the Federation of Swedish Genealogical Societies (Sveriges Släktforskarförbund) and the Computer Genealogy Society of Sweden (the DIS Society). We are also happy to have four participants from the Swedish Archives Information (SVAR) and two participants from Genline North America.
In August 2002, SwedGenTour visited Ontario (California), Kingsburg (California) and Salt Lake City (Utah). We were then successfully able to solve many mysteries and find the roots in Sweden. Since then the possibilities to find the Swedish connections have become even better. The number of databases has increased and the amount of data as well.
The purpose of these web pages is to prepare you and to prepare us for the tour. In order to save some time at the meetings, you will have the possibility to submit your query before the tour. We will then do some check-ups beforehand and hand over the result at the meetings. The better data you are able to provide, the better is the probability that we can help you to find your Swedish relatives. The two main questions we will try to answer are
- Where in Sweden was your immigrant born?
- Is it possible to find somebody related to you in Sweden?
Last time in 2002, we had the ambition to be online with Sweden. However, there were so many Swedish American genealogists asking for help, so we had no time to stay in contact with Sweden. This year, we plan to show you how to find help in Sweden yourself.
Browse these web pages. Try to find as much information about your Swedish immigrant as possible. Fill up the research query form, and bring a printout to the meeting.
Look for the blue and yellow flag at the meetings and you will find us.
Further questions, please send an email to swedgentour@dis.se
Welcome!