Sweden Genealogy Genline Workbook
Advanced Search Methods
As you search the Swedish church records, you will likely encounter
obstructions
to your progress. For example, if you are looking for a specific year in a
volume
that has many years in it, quite a bit of time will be needed to find the year
you
want. This is because the Genline folks have not gotten around to identifying
the
year of each page. What this means is that you will encounter a volume with
birth
records taking up 200 pages and covering, say, seventy years. There is no way
to
know where exactly to begin looking except to guess. I call it the hunt and
peck
method. Now this would be a great way to find the year you want if you
were
looking at the actual book. Just flip the pages back and forth until you
have
the year you want.
But you are not flipping anything. You are downloading, from Sweden, a
digitized
image of a record which is transmitted over the internet. This can take a
couple
minutes each depending on your computer capabilities, your connection speed
through
your ISP, the use of the internet by others, and the use of Genline data storage
at
Genline in Sweden.
So a better method might be the proportionality techniques which I take five
pages
in this workbook to explain because it is that useful, that necessary, and that
neat.
The techniques are of my own invention based on necessity. I just got too tired
with
hunt and peck. So I devised a math technique which work for me and I'm sure it
will
work for you. Give it a try. You'll find this technique described on pages 91-95
of
this workbook.
Circle Search
A description follows on page 96 to help you find an ancestor when the given
parish
in HER seems correct but you can not find the record. Another helpful tool you
may
want to create is an index for a volume you plan to use quite often. I did this
for
a birth record for Bj”rk”. Once I had it complete, I found it sped up my
access to
details. The time spent to create it was well worth it. More on page 96.
Ultimately, you're going to need help when you are unable to find a certain
person
in the records. One possibility is to send a letter to people with the same
family
name who currently live in Sweden. The postage will be reasonable. Ask them for
help.
Send what you know and ask a question. Provide your email address so an answer
will
not cost them anything to send. More on page 97.
Make A Telephone Call
You may even want to call a relative, once found, to ask for help. Through
the
modern telephone system, a call to Sweden from the USA is about $2.50 for 60
minutes
if you use the 1010987 number. More on page 98.
Try Court Records
As the ultimate desperation method, you may want to access the H„r„d court
records for
the parish you are working on. Although the documents are all in Swedish, you
will be
able to distinguish the name of your ancestor, if present. You can print the
pages and
ask for help with the translation.
Find microfilm of Häräd Swedish court records at:
http://www.lds.org/
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I've done it hundreds of times.
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Sweden
Genealogy Genline Workbook
Available April 2006, this step-by-step workbook will help you identify and
locate your Swedish ancestors. With a computer connected to the internet,
thousands of resources are waiting to help you discover your pedigree. The
recently completed digitization of Swedish church records by Genline
opens the volumes of church records for even the smallest of villages for you to
pursue the records to identify your ancestors.
You will be assisted in finding the name, birth month and year of your
immigrant ancestors. Then these details are used to identify the parish from
which each immigrant ancestor originated before coming to North America. Once
the parish of origin is known through investigation, the real hunt begins for
the parents of each person. Then the hunt continues for their parents. And on
and on.
You can expect to go back 6 generations or more depending on your diligence
and patience.
Click HERE to
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Ullian Larson.
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A heavy grade good quality acid free paper is used for the production of
this workbook to allow for it to be passed on from person to person over time.
The backs of each page remain blank so pertinent notes can be added to
personalize the workbook where appropriate. Further, each page is three hole
punched so the spiral binding can be removed and the pages eventually put in a
three ring binder. With this, pages can be added as needed.
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to return to this page. Or set this page as a shortcut with a right click. Or
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