Your Swedish Roots : A Step By Step Handbook

Preface 7(2) A name on a Gravestone 9(2) Clues to Your Family's History 11(6) Old relatives 11(2) Home sources 13(1) Family Bible 13(1) Letters and postcards 13(2) Photographs 15(1) Legal documents 15(1) American records 15(1) Swedish American church records 15(1) Census records 15(1) County courthouse records 15(1) Vital records 16(1) Probate records 16(1) Naturalization records 16(1) Newspapers -- obituaries 16(1) The Emigration from Sweden to America 17(12) One out of five emigrated 17(1) Economic factors most important 17(3) Reasons for emigration 20(1) Early Swedish emigrants 20(1) A first wave of emigrants 20(1) Steamships cut travel time 21(1) The great emigration from Sweden to North America 22(2) The mass emigration between 1879 and 1893 24(1) The Swedish city of Chicago 24(1) Many Swedes moved on 24(1) From where did they come in Sweden? 24(2) Good for both parties 26(1) The travel routes 27(2) How to Find the Place of Origin in Sweden 29(12) Sweden -- a general picture 29(1) Landskap, provinces 30(1) Lan, districts, ``counties'' 31(1) Harad, counties 32(1) Socken -- forsamling, parish 32(1) Mother parishes and annex parishes 33(1) Addresses 34(1) Kommun -- today's municipalities 34(1) Names of farms and villages 35(1) Rote 35(1) Blocks and street numbers 35(1) In summary 35(1) Cities in Sweden 36(3) Cities in alphabetical order 39(2) Swedish Names and Swedish Spelling 41(8) The most common son-names 42(1) Different forms of son-names 43(1) Different forms of first names 43(1) Family names 43(2) Names from other countries 45(1) Old and new spelling 45(1) Some examples of old and new spelling 46(1) Alteration of Swedish names by immigrants to America 46(1) Good to know about the Swedish language and Swedish spelling 46(1) Standardized Swedish spelling 47(1) Latin and German writing 47(1) Name Calendars and name days 48(1) Where to Find Your Sources 49(16) The role of the local church 49(1) The church books 49(1) Complete records 49(1) The regional archives 50(1) The nine Regional Archives and their districts 50(1) Microfilm 51(1) Genline -- Swedish church records on the web 51(1) Swedish church records until 1895 -- where to find them 52(1) To summarize -- where do you find your sources? 53(1) Research centers in Sweden 53(1) Official records and right of access 53(1) Research centers in the United States 53(1) Genealogical societies 54(1) Good websites 54(1) What church records contain 54(1) How church records are listed 54(1) Molltorp in the catalog in Gothenburg Regional Archives 55(1) Molltorp in the SVAR catalog 56(1) Molltorp in Family History Library 57(1) Molltorp in Genline 58(1) This is how Genline FamilyFinder works 58(1) Let us search step by step 59(2) Research centers 61(1) The House of Emigrants 61(1) The Kinship Center 61(1) The House of Genealogy in Leksand 62(1) The Research Center of Jorn 62(1) The National Archives in Arninge 62(1) SVAR Research Center 63(1) The Research Center of Kyrkhult 63(1) The National Archives and Regional Archives 64(1) The Rapp Family in U.S. Sources 65(11) Swedish American congregation records on microfilm 65(1) The Rapp family in Portland 66(1) Zion Lutheran Church, Portland, Connecticut 66(2) Swedish-American congregations in the United States 68(2) The Rapp family in the U.S. federal census 1900 70(1) The U.S. Federal census 71(1) Ship's manifests in New York and other ports 72(1) Passenger list from Germania 8 September 1879 72(1) Passenger lists with more detailed information 73(1) Passenger list for Oscar II 10 July 1905 73(1) A search for Emma Landgren 74(1) Ship's manifests, passenger lists 75(1) Gustaf Adolf Rapp's Family 76(26) Leaving Molltorp 76(1) Molltorp moving records 1879 76(1) Moving records 77(1) The Rapp family at Hulan 78(2) Household examination roll 80(1) How to find the place (Hulan) 81(1) Gustaf Adolf's birth 82(1) Ransberg birth and christening record 1858 82(1) Birth and christening records 83(1) Gustaf Adolf's family in Ransberg 84(1) Ransberg household examination roll 1857--1868 84(2) The marriage between Gustaf Adolf Rapp's parents 86(1) Marriage record for Ransberg and Molltorp parishes 86(2) Records of banns and marriages 88(2) Gustaf Adolf's mother's death 90(1) Death and burial record for Ransberg 1867 90(2) Death and burial book 92(1) Causes of death 93(3) Abbreviations of names 96(1) Abbreviations in a birth record 96(1) Birth- and christening record from Gullered parish 97(1) Gustaf Adolf's father becomes a hussar 1853 98(1) Ransberg household examination roll 1846--1857 98(2) Wrong birth date for Anders Gustaf Rapp 100(1) Ransberg birth records 1834 100(1) How to find the father of a child born out of wedlock 101(1) Anna Christina Carlsson's Family 102(4) Molltorp household examination roll 1874--1887 102(2) Anna Christina Carlsson in Molltorp's birth- and christening records 104(2) Finding your Ancestor in Swedish Passenger Lists 106(9) Anna Carlsson -- a search in the database Emihamn/Emigranten 106(2) What does the database say about our Anna Carlsson? 108(1) Gustaf Adolf Rapp in Emihamn/Emigranten 109(1) Passenger list for the steamship Orlando 110(4) Swedish passenger lists 114(1) If you don't find your ancestor in the passenger lists 114(1) Early Emigration 115(12) An early example: Carl Freeman (Friman) an his sons 116(1) The Freeman family in printed literature 116(1) Freeman and his sons in the ship's manifests in New York 1838 117(1) Freeman and his sons in the passport journal in Gothenburg 118(1) Freeman in the navy's pension fund 119(1) Freeman and his sons in the passport journal in Skovde 119(1) Freeman and his family in Varnhem 120(1) Varnhem parish household examination roll 1838 120(1) Carl Freeman and his son William Freeman 121(1) An emigrant in the 1850s: Ivar Alexis Hall 122(1) Ivar Alexis Hall's family 123(1) Swedish nobility 124(1) Descriptions of farms and estates 125(2) Traveling with the Swedish American Line 127(4) The Swedish emigrant CD 128(1) Emihamn 128(1) Emibas Gothenburg 128(1) Emisjo 129(1) Emipass 129(1) Emisal 129(1) Emivasa 129(1) SAKA 129(1) The ships 129(2) Old Records 131(4) The oldest church book in Ransberg 131(1) The earliest birth records in Ransberg 132(1) A remarkable priest 133(1) Other old records 134(1) Alvsborgs losen (special tax records) 134(1) Mantalslangder (population records for taxation) 134(1) Jordebocker (land records for taxation) 134(1) Finding Your Family in Sweden Today 135(16) Church books after 1895 136(1) Privacy during seventy years 136(1) Special sources 136(1) What happened to the Rapp family in Sweden? 137(3) Ransberg moving records 1888 The Rapp family at Stora Lakenas 140(1) Ransberg household examination roll 1877--1894 140(2) Agda Maria marries 1894 142(1) Ransberg household examination roll 1894--1899 142(2) Ransberg household examination roll 1894--1899 144(2) The death book 146(1) Sweden's population 1970 147(1) A search in the telephone book 147(1) Useful databases 148(1) Swedish databases 148(2) Other Scandinavian databases 150(1) American databases 150(1) Prepare for a Trip to Sweden 151(8) Places to visit locally 151(1) The local church and churchyard 152(1) Get a good road map 152(1) Get a good local map 152(1) Where to go in western Sweden 153(1) Maps available on the Internet 154(2) People know English 156(1) Travel in the summer 156(1) When visiting Swedes 156(1) Free access to land 157(1) Plan the trip 157(2) Meeting the Swedish Family 159(6) Agda Maria's grandson 159(1) Gunnar Lagerin shows us around 159(3) Gustaf Adolf Rapp's birth place 162(1) Hulan and Skafverud 162(3) Swedish Provinces 165(20) Skane (Scania) 165(1) Blekinge 166(1) Halland 166(1) Smaland 166(2) Oland 168(1) Gotland 168(1) Bohuslan 169(1) Vastergotland 170(1) Dalsland 171(1) Ostergotland 171(2) Sodermanland 173(1) Stockholm 174(1) Uppland 175(2) Vastmanland 177(1) Narke 177(1) Varmland 177(1) Dalarna (Dalecarlia) 178(1) Gastrikland 179(1) Halsingland 180(1) Medelpad 180(1) Harjedalen 181(1) Jamtland 181(1) Angermanland 182(1) Vasterbotten 182(1) Norrbotten 183(1) Lappland 183(1) Two special signs 184(1) Dictionary 185(18) Swedish words common in the church books 185(12) Abbreviations 197(6) Appendices 203(14) Church records destroyed -- usually by fire 203(1) Genealogical societies in Sweden 204(7) Websites, Etc. 211(3) Bibliography 214(1) Illustrations in the book 215(2) Index 217