Tuesday's Tip - Facebook Groups

There are several groups on Facebook where you can get help with your genealogy. Here are some of them:

Swedish/American People Search - for people in Sweden who are looking for American relatives or the other way around.
https://www.facebook.com/groups/107984552648944/?fref=ts

My ancestors are from ... - groups for people with relatives in sertain provinces.
Gotland: https://www.facebook.com/groups/84822331585/?fref=ts
Halland: https://www.facebook.com/groups/121908984681238/?fref=ts
Östergötland: https://www.facebook.com/groups/479976045404659/?fref=ts
Smålan: https://www.facebook.com/groups/479976045404659/?fref=ts
Södermanland: https://www.facebook.com/groups/141378232718549/?fref=ts
Västergötland: https://www.facebook.com/groups/141378232718549/?fref=ts
Blekinge: https://www.facebook.com/groups/598330630185601/?fref=ts
Skåne: https://www.facebook.com/groups/454687791291908/
Bohuslän: https://www.facebook.com/groups/161847587319694/
Värmland: https://www.facebook.com/groups/388618994592285/
Uppland: https://www.facebook.com/groups/581359428552089/
Medelpad: https://www.facebook.com/groups/439414042821583/

These are just a few of them. Just search on facebook for "My ancestors are from" and the province or county you are looking for.

Another set of groups are the "Kyrkor och Kyrkogårdar i" - "Churches and Graveyards in". Here you can find pictures of churches and headstones. You can also ask for a specific stone and a person who lives close by or knows the graves well can give you more information.
Example: Östergötland - https://www.facebook.com/groups/315131595296678/?fref=ts

There are of course more groups in Swedish but Swedes are generally rather good at English.
Släktforskning (genealogy) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/sforsknig/?fref=ts
Släktforskning - Gravstenar - arkiven berättar (genealogy - headstones - the archives) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/543006329056410/?fref=ts
Adlig Släkthistoria (noble family history) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/225481740969536/?ref=ts&fref=ts
1500-1600 tals släkter på Gotland (1500-1600's families on Gotland) - https://www.facebook.com/groups/749657585093027/?fref=ts

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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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Allt för Sverige - season 4, episode 1

The first episode is out. It is a good one.







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Allt för Sverige - The Great Swedish Adventure, season 4

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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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:
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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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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!