Your Swedish Roots: A Step by Step Handbook

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Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 929.3485 EAN: 9781593312763 Format: Illustrated ISBN: 1593312768 Label: Ancestry Publishing Manufacturer: Ancestry Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 222 Publication Date: 2004-11-01 Publisher: Ancestry Publishing Studio: Ancestry Publishing
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Editorial Reviews: Get a start on your Swedish family history with Your Swedish Roots, a step-by-step handbook to help guide you in researching your Swedish ancestors. First, learn general information about Sweden, Swedish naming practices, and the Swedish language. These basics will help you research names of ancestors and search through Swedish records with greater ease. Next, learn what Swedish records are available, where to find them, and how to use them. Swedish church records will be one of the most value to you, as they are very complete and well preserved. Finally, follow sample cases on particular Swedish families to learn helpful research steps for your own family history. As you learn about your Swedish ancestry, you will experience the rewarding feelings that come from seeking out and discovering your ancestors.
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: If you are even a little bit Swedish, you must have this book! Comment: I wish I would have ordered this book when I first saw it on Amazon several months ago - I'd have saved hours and hours of Internet searching. YOUR SWEDISH ROOTS is easy to read, loaded with every resource you'll need to trace your family tree, how-to instructions, a dictionary of helpful words, and a chapter suggesting where and how to travel within Sweden to visit the areas of your heritage. Customer Rating: Summary: Fantastic book! Comment: This is the best book I have read on researching your Swedish heritage. It gives good illustrations and gives step by step information on how to work your way through the parish records to find your family. I purchased this before paying for a subscription to Gen Line so I would know what to do and how to go about searching for the records I need. It also tells how to find out which parish to research to locate your family. I discovered that I have more research to do before I spend the money for GenLine. Thanks to this book I'm saving money in knowing what information I need before going through the parish records. This book is worth every penny. Customer Rating: Summary: Great Book Comment: Detailed many things my great-grandparents didn't mention. Have now located the area of my families roots and plan to visit. Customer Rating: Summary: Great Basic Intro Comment: Well written and not too complicated to follow. This book lends great insights into how best to utilize the tools available - especailly when researching data bases available in Sweden. Customer Rating: Summary: Sweden unleashed Comment: If you have any Swedish heritage (and a surprising number of Americans do), then look no further for an informative and practical reading experience about Sweden. It's all here: history, cultural references, highlights of different regions, and maps and old photographs that let you connect with the country-and your heritage. Do not miss this book if you are planning a trip to Sweden. This book will definitely help sketch out for you what your trip should be about. Then you can go ahead and buy a travel book for the details of surviving and getting around. But the main focus of the book is tracing your Swedish ancestry through the different available sources. All the other stuff works to support you in your research. There are examples of how to find and use the church records, locations that now have them available on microfiche, other possible sources of information, and up-to-date web references. And it's all presented in a useful, readable, and quotable style. You may even find yourself talking out loud in Swedish as you read what the different church records may have recorded to keep track of the people. I have gone through this book twice on my own, and even now, I still read parts out loud to impress my friends with my Swedish heritage. More Reviews