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Your Swedish Ancestor’s Household Examinations

Hello everyone! How has your week gone? How are you doing with your genealogy? Are you coming up against new roadblocks or have you found a “gold vein” of information? Genealogy is a fascinating area because you don’t just work on it then you’re done. It has many avenues that can take you many directions. It isn’t always...

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What to do with Swedish Place Names

Hello Everyone! I hope you’re having a great week! I hope you’re having fun searching for your Scandinavian ancestors. I’m so grateful for the technology that we have at our fingertips and the innovation that continues to change how we search for our family. I’m so grateful for the hundreds of workers who scan and digitize...

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Genealogy Travel-Tips and Tricks

It’s travel season everyone! I’ve been feeling the travel bug ever since my neck of the woods has warmed up somewhat. It’s got me thinking about doing some genealogy travel. What is that you ask? It’s where you travel around the world for genealogy purposes. You can travel for researching at archives, for visiting your ancestor’s...

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Documenting Our Ancestor’s Lives

Hi, friends! I hope all is well this week! Any good genealogy gems this week? Wasn’t RootsTech amazing last week. I learned so much about the different aspects of genealogy. I want to focus this week on documenting our genealogy. Why do we search for hours on Ancestry.com or FamilySearch.org looking for that elusive record? Why does it matter to...

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RootsTech and Becoming a Professional Genealogist

RootsTech logoHello everyone! How’s it going this week? It’s Roots Tech week! What’s that you say? It’s a genealogy convention held in Salt Lake City, UT that covers everything genealogy.  They have classes on just about everything, DNA, photos, preservation, tech, regional research, maps, social media, latest news and trends, etc.  They...

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Your Ancestor’s Swedish Marriage Records and How to Find Them

Hello everyone! How’s it going this week? Did you have any new genealogy discoveries this week? Has anyone found any Scandinavian marriage records this week that they want to share? Because that’s what we’re going to be finishing the month with is Scandinavian marriage records, specifically Swedish marriage records.  I had someone ask about...

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Scandinavian Marriage Records-More than just Names

Happy Valentine’s month! I hope you’ve had a great week. I also hope you had a great Valentine’s Day yesterday. We will be talking about Scandinavian marriage records in a minute because marriage records are a great topic to talk about for the month of February. But first let me tell you about my Valentine’s day. It was a normal day...

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Your Ancestor’s Marriage Customs and Genealogy

Happy Valentine’s month everyone! Isn’t it great to celebrate love in all of its forms?  Love for a friend, spouse, child, coworker, neighbor, cousin, aunt, uncle, grandparent, etc. is what we are all about this month. To me it’s like a second Christmas. I want to feel that warm magical feeling that makes me love the world. I might be a romantic...

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