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SGSC meets first Saturday of the month (September through May) at Bethany Lutheran Church at 4500 E Hampden Avenue, Cherry Hills Village, Colorado (near Hampden and I-25). Meetings are generally two hours long and include committee reports and one or two presentations.
It’s an easy job – take a two-hour shift at the SGSC booth at the Estes Park Scandinavian Midsummer Festival. You’ll answer questions about SGSC membership and exchange ideas with festival attendees about how to go about researching Swedish ancestry. Sign up for your shift at SignUpGenius
The Swedish Genealogical Society of Colorado is now meeting virtually! We will have one-hour short meetings through the summer and resume our typical agendas starting in September. Watch this site for details!
Due to a family emergency, our March 3 program has been changed from an all-day seminar to a regular monthly meeting. The meeting location is Bethany Lutheran Church. Refer to our meeting page for details.
Saturday, March 3, 2018 9:00 AM – 3:30 PM Bethany Lutheran Church – The Great Hall 4500 East Hampden Avenue featuring Geoffrey Fröberg Morris Swedish Research Specialist Family History Library, Salt Lake City, Utah Geoffrey Fröberg Morris began doing Swedish genealogy over 25 years ago when he was mentored by his mother (a native of […]
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Our next meeting will be Saturday, January 6, 2018 at 9:30 am at the Denver Public in the 7th Floor Training Room at 10 W. 14th Pkwy (14th & Broadway). Our program will include a presentation about Swedes living in Leadville, Colorado in the early years of our State’s history. In 2015 the SwedGen genealogists […]
Here are two great resources for learning about ArkivDigital: An Introduction to ArkivDigital – presenter is Anka Magee, AG®. This 6-minute video lesson will teach you how to find records of your Swedish ancestors by using ArkivDigital, an online database with about 40 million images of Swedish church records and other historical records. You will learn how […]
Our next meeting will be Saturday, October 7, 2017 at 9:30 am at the Denver Public in the 7th Floor Training Room at 10 W. 14th Pkwy (14th & Broadway) Our program will include “Fika Findings” by Ron Floberg and Brian Rapp. This presentation will focus on notes and abbreviations disclosed in the Swedish Church Records. The one-on-one FIKA sessions […]
We are delighted to welcome Kathy Meade back to SGSC for an update on all the latest from ArkivDigital! Kathy is the North American representative for ArkivDigital and also serves on the advisory board of the Nordic Family Research Center at the Swedish American Museum in Chicago. We always learn something new from Kathy! Join […]
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The newspaper demo on April 1 had some technical problems, so here’s a video from home that gives you some tips on how to use the website. It’s about 8 1/2 minutes long. Swedish-language American newspapers are chock-full of obituary notices that usually include the parish of origin. Your immigrant ancestor probably subscribed to one […]
