Your Swedish Roots
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.
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Book details
- Author
- Per Clemensson
- Imprint
- Ancestry.com, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Reference › Genealogy & Heraldry
- Topics
- Swedish genealogy · Swedish ancestry · family history research · Swedish church records · Swedish naming practices · Swedish language · genealogical records
- ISBN-13
- 9781618580801 (Paperback)9781593312763 (Hardcover)
About the author
PER CLEMENSSON is a Swedish archivist and genealogist and the co-author, with Kjell Andersson, of Your Swedish Roots: A Step by Step Handbook, the first comprehensive English-language guide to Swedish genealogical research.
Clemensson served as First Archivist at the Provincial Archive in Göteborg, Sweden. He and Andersson authored several genealogy books in Swedish, including Släktforska steg för steg and Emigrantforska! Steg för steg, and are recognized as experts on Swedish genealogical research. Clemensson also contributed to a history of Gothenburg covering the period 1775–1875.