SwedGen Tour October 2010
The Swedgen Tour group 2010. From left: Charlotte Börjesson,
Anna-Lena Hultman, Anneli Andersson and
Siv Bergman.
Have you hit a brick wall in your Swedish research or don't know where to begin?
A group of Swedish genealogists will be touring the United States this autumn to teach and assist Swedish-Americans in how to find their roots and how to do Swedish research.
A group of four Swedish genealogists are touring the United States for the sole purpose of helping Swedish-Americans learn more about their heritage. These four individuals participated in previous SwedGen tours and have decided to continue the tradition with the new SwedGen Tour 2010. On previous trips, the group was successful in helping many individuals get started with their research as well as breaking down many brick walls. This year the group will make the following stops:
* Saturday, October 2, 2010 - Worcester, MA
Read the article in the Sunday Telegram from last year's visit.* Friday, October 8, 2010 - Philadelphia, PA
* Sunday, October 10, 2010 - Lanse, PA
One-on-one-sessions are available at all places.Preregistration is needed.
The group will lead a Swedish genealogy research day that will include presentations and demonstrations on how to use the various resources for Swedish genealogical and historical research. There will be presentations on Swedish genealogical online resources, Swedish genealogical CDs and Swedish emigration.
The tour participants will assist individuals with their personal research. The group will have access to Swedish online and CD genealogical resources including resources specific to regional areas such as Kalmar, Kronoberg, Jönköping, Halland, Jämtland and Stockholm. In addition the group will have access to the Dalslandproject (70,000 names from Dalsland including emigrants), index of names for the Swedish American churches and additional names of emigrants not yet included in the Emibas CD.
This year we will also focus on the historical maps available at Lantmäteriet.
Lectures and workshops
Information will follow about details of lectures and workshops. There will also be info on how to pre-register for the different lectures and workshops with one-on-one sessions.
Examples of 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 1901-2009
Swedish Burial Index
Regional Vital records Indexes
Examples of Online Resources
Genline - Church records online
SVAR - Swedish National Archives online - Church records, Population census, Taxation records and more
Lantmäteriet - Historical maps online
EmiWeb - emigration database online
Disbyt - database - 22 million records from family trees
Indiko - database - Regional database for northen Sweden and Östergötland
Släktdata - Vital Records Online
Sixth 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. In May 2007, we visited Minneapolis and Cambridge (Minnesota), Rockford (Illinois), and Jamestown (New York). In May 2008, we had a workshop at Swedish Embassy, Washingon, DC. Last time, in October 2010, we were on a roadtour to Worcester (Massachusetts), Berlin (Connecticut), Cambridge and Saint Paul (Minnesota).At the 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.
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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?
Further questions, please send an email to swedgentour@dis.se
Welcome!