måndag 27 oktober 2014
Allt för Sverige - season 4, episode 2
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Episode 2, season 4 takes place in western parts of the province of Smaland. Many people emigrated from Smaland because of poverty and religion.
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måndag 20 oktober 2014
Allt för Sverige - season 4, episode 1
The first episode is out. It is a good one.
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söndag 19 oktober 2014
Allt för Sverige - The Great Swedish Adventure, season 4
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I have just watched the first episode in the forth season of "Allt för Sverige" (in the US known as the Great Swedish Adventure). It is a Swedish reality show where 10 americans get to come to Sweden and compete for the chanse to meet their Swedish relatives. At the same time they get to se different parts of Sweden and learn both about their ancestors and about modern and every day life in Sweden.
The first episode show the contestants taking their first steps on Swedish soil in Malmö, Skåne. They have their first lesson in Swedish, taste some Swedish food, learn about Zlatan and Rosengård, and finally they compete in two teams for the chanse to continue. Next week the loosing team members compete against each other so we do not know who has to go home first until then.
The show is not yet on youtube but I will put a link here as soon as I can. In the meanwhile, you can always take a look at season 1, 2, and 3. You find the links to all the episodes on the Your Swedish Heritage home page: http://linnlinns.wix.com/swedish-heritage#!links/c208k but you can see the first episode, season one, below.
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fredag 3 oktober 2014
Cinnamon Buns and Breast Cancer Awareness
October 4 is cinnamon bun day in Sweden and since October is breast cancer awareness month many stores have cinamon buns with pink pearl sugar on them.
Cinnamon bun day was first celebrated in 1999, which makes it 15 years old this year. It was the Homebaking council that started the day to celebrate its 40th birthday. Harvest time is also when the big baking season starts in Swedish homes.¨
For recepie and more information on the cinnamon bun go to https://sweden.se/culture/cinnamon-buns/
Sources:
http://www.kanelbullensdag.se/
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torsdag 2 oktober 2014
Gotland's Oldest Votive Ship
I took a break from blogging and am trying to get back to doing it on a regular basis.
The picture shows the oldest votive ship on Gotland. You can find it in the small church in the parish of Västergarn, 30 minutes south of Visby. The ship was given to the church in 1637 by the local harbour bailiff Marcus Schröder.
During that time the island of Gotland was under Danish rule but the church was under the diocese of Linköping in Sweden. Marcus Schröder is believed to have come to Gotland as a skipper, shipping German refugees from Eckenförde. The thirty year war between catholics and protestans was in full bloom in Europe.
The votive ship is a full-rigged ship with square-sails on all three masts. The type of ship is known as a frigate. This one has 48 canons which makes it a naval ship
There are golden inscriptions on the ship in German:
Starboard: Gott Zur Ehr, der Jugend zur Lehr, Der Kirchen zum Zihrrat
God to honour, Youth to learn, the Church as an ornament.
Port: Marckes Schröder dieses Schip verehret hat. 1637
Marckes Schröder has donated this ship. 1637
Marcus Schröder became an important man on Gotland. He was its first lime squire and also a member of parliament. He perished during a voyage between Lübeck and Visby in 1661.
Source: Kyrkfönstret, Klinte pastorats kyrkoblad 2014 Nr 2.
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The picture shows the oldest votive ship on Gotland. You can find it in the small church in the parish of Västergarn, 30 minutes south of Visby. The ship was given to the church in 1637 by the local harbour bailiff Marcus Schröder.
During that time the island of Gotland was under Danish rule but the church was under the diocese of Linköping in Sweden. Marcus Schröder is believed to have come to Gotland as a skipper, shipping German refugees from Eckenförde. The thirty year war between catholics and protestans was in full bloom in Europe.
The votive ship is a full-rigged ship with square-sails on all three masts. The type of ship is known as a frigate. This one has 48 canons which makes it a naval ship
There are golden inscriptions on the ship in German:
Starboard: Gott Zur Ehr, der Jugend zur Lehr, Der Kirchen zum Zihrrat
God to honour, Youth to learn, the Church as an ornament.
Port: Marckes Schröder dieses Schip verehret hat. 1637
Marckes Schröder has donated this ship. 1637
Marcus Schröder became an important man on Gotland. He was its first lime squire and also a member of parliament. He perished during a voyage between Lübeck and Visby in 1661.
Source: Kyrkfönstret, Klinte pastorats kyrkoblad 2014 Nr 2.
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lördag 30 augusti 2014
2014 Genealogy Convention
This weekend the 2014 genealogy convention took place in Karlstad, the town where the sun always shines. Over 80 different companies and societies were represented, Ancestry, FamilySearch and AD online are just three of them. We bought 4 discs; the Swedish death index 1900-2013, Kronoberg county database 2013, Östergötland county maps to use with Disgen and the intros of the estate inventories for Risinge ting. I am looking forward to many hours exploring these.
Apart from buying discs we also atended a couple of lectures where we learned about new features in Disgen and AD online.
Next years convention will take place in Nyköping. See you there!
tisdag 26 augusti 2014
Tuesday's Tip - Records from Mental Hospitals
There has ben mental hospitals in Sweden as far back as the middle ages. There are several musuems that show how the insane were treated and what life was like at the hospiatls and asylums. (link to list of museums).
A lot of the people treated at the hospital were women with frail nerves. If a woman was not happy taking care of her home she could from the beginning of the 20th century get electrical shock treatment.
If you find somebody in your family who spent time at one of these hospitals or asylums their journals can be found at the County Council archives. The journals tell the story of why the patients were taken care of, if they had been treated there or some where else earlier and which kind of medication that was given. The law about confidentiality, that everything is kept sekcret for 70 years, does not always apply to journals of this kind. The confidentiality is tried for each case and it depends on who is asking for the journals. But after 70 years they are available for everybody.
The records from the mental hospital Säter, for instance, is kept at Dalarna's County Council archives. Säter is probably one of Sweden's most famous mental institutions and is situated in Skönvik. It was built after a survey in 1902 determined that the counties of Gotland, Jönköping, Kopparberg, Kronoberg and Värmland had a high rate of insanity and amentia. Säter's Hospital opened in 1912 and was at the time one of Sweden's largest and most modern mental hospitals with 37 buildings. 20 of these were for taking care of up to 830 patients. The same year the "permanent" pavilion opened for the most dangerous patients. Several additions were made during the years and in 1975 the old main building from 1912 was torn down and replaced after huge restorations had been made to the rest of the hospital. In 1989 the "permanent" pavilion was closed down.
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Source: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A4ters_sjukhus
"Släkt" a magazine for Swedish genealogists. Year 32, no 5, 2013
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| Säter |
A lot of the people treated at the hospital were women with frail nerves. If a woman was not happy taking care of her home she could from the beginning of the 20th century get electrical shock treatment.
If you find somebody in your family who spent time at one of these hospitals or asylums their journals can be found at the County Council archives. The journals tell the story of why the patients were taken care of, if they had been treated there or some where else earlier and which kind of medication that was given. The law about confidentiality, that everything is kept sekcret for 70 years, does not always apply to journals of this kind. The confidentiality is tried for each case and it depends on who is asking for the journals. But after 70 years they are available for everybody.
The records from the mental hospital Säter, for instance, is kept at Dalarna's County Council archives. Säter is probably one of Sweden's most famous mental institutions and is situated in Skönvik. It was built after a survey in 1902 determined that the counties of Gotland, Jönköping, Kopparberg, Kronoberg and Värmland had a high rate of insanity and amentia. Säter's Hospital opened in 1912 and was at the time one of Sweden's largest and most modern mental hospitals with 37 buildings. 20 of these were for taking care of up to 830 patients. The same year the "permanent" pavilion opened for the most dangerous patients. Several additions were made during the years and in 1975 the old main building from 1912 was torn down and replaced after huge restorations had been made to the rest of the hospital. In 1989 the "permanent" pavilion was closed down.
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Source: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%A4ters_sjukhus
"Släkt" a magazine for Swedish genealogists. Year 32, no 5, 2013
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