You won't find the Swedish parents of Johan Peter Palmström, the master carpenter, from indexed births -- there will be literally thousands of Johan's and/or Peter/Petter/Per's born during the (guessed) time span of 1760/65, in the part of Sweden closest to Norway alone. Since it doesn't appear to be one of the indexed Palmströms, your hope lies in following the trail backwards. One suggestion is the city archivist of Kristiansand: the sources for the "borgarrulle" are apparently in a card index kept at the city archives. Maybe those sources have a clue?[/l][/l][/l][/l][/l][/l]
Agree on that. But if I would guess, the right person probably was from Bohuslän county, including Gothenburg. This was norwegian land until 1658 and in the mid 1700s the ties to Norway was still very strong. And since water was easy transportation the connection over the Oslo fjord was always very frequent, actually all the way down to Gothenburg respectively Kristiansand. Värmland county also had a lot of connection to Norway, but mostly to the area closest to them, east of Oslo. But of course not everyone chooses the "obvious" place to relocate to so Palmström might be from anywhere. [/list]