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Presentation Title: Using Swedish Tax Records to Answer Tough Genealogical Questions Tax records are a little used, but excellent resource, for solving the “unsolvable” 18th century problem of record loss/gaps and end of the line extensions. Tax records fill in when clerical surveysare not extant.
All-Day Seminar 9 am to 2:30 pm Date: November 7, 2020 Theme: Swedish Research Tips and How to Use FamilySearch Titles: Finding the Unknown Father Problem-Solving Workshop FamilySearch Tutorial and Resources Presenter: Geoffrey Fröberg Morris, Swedish Research Specialist at the Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah
If you have ever wanted to see one of SGSC’s Fika sessions, this is your chance to see how it goes. With Zoom, we’ll get a close up look at how Research and Mentoring Chair Kjell Andersson finds things for SGSC members in Swedish Records. We’ll also see how he launches members on their Swedish …
Ron Floberg had been trying to find the soldier records for one of his ancestors in the hope that it would provide missing information or clarify conflicting information. With Bev Harbourt’s help, they embarked on a journey to find that soldier. The presentation shows how they were able to find the ancestor and the answers …
Kjell Andersson, SGSC’s Research/Mentoring Chair gives a presentation on how to use some of the best tools for researching our ancestors in Sweden and the steps they took to cross the pond to America. Emibas: find where they lived and what parish they left from Emiham – ship manifest information EmiWeb – emigration and immigration …
August 1, 2020 – Passenger and emigration research Read More »
SGSC hosted its second Zoom meeting on July 11, 2020. Our agenda included a peek into the inner workings of our website, a tour of ArkivDigital’s new family tree feature, and some answers to member-submitted questions about Swedish genealogy research. Meeting videos and handouts available here.
We are pleased to present SGSC’s first Zoom meeting! Many thanks to the Colorado Council of Genealogical Societies for the use of their Zoom account.
Newspapers can be a goldmine of information for genealogists. Monta Lee Dakin, SGSC Program Chair and her husband, Steve Friesen, presented in-depth tips and recommendations for advancing your research with newspaper archives.
Many of us have “spit in the tube” and wondered what those DNA test results actually mean. Many of us have also attended all-day seminars on DNA that filled us with scientific knowledge bordering on gibberish. How do we move beyond the gibberish and figure out what it means for our DNA story? Where do we even start? What do we do with all these so-called matches?
Overlooked as an ethnic enclave first of Eastern European then Hispanic populations, Globeville was home to a vibrant Swedish community in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Located in what is now north Denver along the South Platte River, the towns of Globeville along with Swansea and Elyria were home to smelters, meat packing and other …
January 4, 2020 – Globeville’s Swedish Community Read More »
