Swedish Genealogical Tour in May 2007
Charlotte Börjesson have found a lost ancestor in
Salt Lake City at the tour 2005
We have now visited Minneapolis (MN), Cambridge (MN), Rockford (IL) and Jamestown (NY) . All these events have been completely full booked. It wouldn't been possible to squeeze in another participants. We have been able to solve many long time researched connections. After a few days of hunting for Swedish traces in the outback of Pennsylvania, we soon will be heading home.
Here is a television interview with Anna-Lena Hultman about the event at the Rockford Public Library.
http://www.wtvo.com/content/fulltext/?cid=3684
Click on watch next to Rockford Public Library Holds Genealogy Workshop!
If you have missed any link at the lectures or sessions, you can check the database link to the left to find the links.
Program
May 2nd, Minneapolis, Minnesota
May 3rd, Cambridge, Minnesota
May 5th, Rockford, Illinois
May 9th, Jamestown, New York
See links in the left margin!Registration required!
Lectures and workshops
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 your Swedish roots or to solve your problems if you donŐt know how to proceed.
Databases
We will have access to a full range of different useful Swedish databases, such as:
Emigranten - passport index for emigrants from Sweden
Emibas - extracts from Swedish church records of emigrants
Swedish population CDs 1890, 1900, 1970 and 1980
Swedish Death Index 1947-2003
Regional Vital records Indexes
Online resources
Genline - Church records online
SVAR - Swedish National Archives online - Church records, Population census, Taxation records and more
Disbyt - database - 12 million records from family trees
Indiko - database - Regional database for northen Sweden and Östergötland
Släktdata - Vital Records Online
Third tour
In August 2002, SwedGenTour visited Ontario (California), Kingsburg (California) and Salt Lake City (Utah). In September 2005, the SwedGenTour visited Salt Lake City, Seattle and Vancouver. At both tours, we were 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.Prepare yourself
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?
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!