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Archive - Swedish language / Help Deciphering!

« skrivet: 2010-06-24, 17:47 »

Thanks!

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Archive - Swedish language / Help Deciphering!

« skrivet: 2010-06-22, 00:58 »

I found the death record of my anscestor Kristina Elisabet Barken on the SVAR website, but I can't decipher what the Dodsorsak/Cause of Death says. It can be found on the SVAR website in the church records, it is: Nora bergsforsamling kyrkoarkiv (T-lan), Dod - och begravningsbocker, SE/ULA/11098/F/10 (1861-1894) page 276. Her records is at the top of the page. To my it looks like it says Njursjukdom but every translation and dictionary I try says that isn't a word.  
Any help would be very much appreciated!!
Thanks so much! Maggie
mk4997a@student.american.edu

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Archive - Swedish names / Hilma Leontine Spångberg (Tena)

« skrivet: 2010-06-15, 23:16 »

Wow thank you so much!! That answers so many questions and puts the final pieces into our family puzzle! I knew about most of her siblings, but I had never heard of the illigitimate older sister and her child! I am so excited by what you've found and very grateful! Thank you! Looking into Jan and why he may have taken the name Spångberg is my new task now! The family kept it just for the immigration and then all of Karl Fredrik's daughters changed their last names to Carlson.  
Again, thanks so much!
Maggie

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Archive - Swedish names / Steve, Isaac (Name Change!)

« skrivet: 2010-06-15, 21:25 »

My Great-Great grandfather immigrated from Urshult, Sweden to Michigan, USA in 1900, as confirmed by census records. However, I cannot find any birth or immigration records for him whatsoever. Our family oral history suggests that Isaac changed his name because it was too common a last name. His mother's name is Anna Seaman and father's name was either John Steve or John Stevenson. He was born July 4, 1879. I was hoping somone could help me locate any immigration records showing a man with his stats leaving sweden, so that I could figure out his real last name.  
Any help would be greatly appreciated!!
Maggie
mk4997a@student.american.edu

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Archive - Swedish names / Hilma Leontine Spångberg (Tena)

« skrivet: 2010-06-15, 21:20 »

Hello! I am writing to try and find more information about my great-great grandmother Hilma Leontine Spångberg, whom was known to our family as Tena. She was born to parents Karl Fredrik Spångberg and Kristina Elisabet Barken in Skärhyttan, Nora lands, Örebro . She was born in either 1884 or 1886. She is the aunt of August Spångberg, (1893-1987) former member of the Swedish Parliament. Any information that anyone could find would be so helpful! I would especially love a birth record to confirm her birthdate, as census records and immigration records I have found vary that date quite a bit!
 
Also, the name Spångberg is really interesting, does anyone know of a significance to it? I am confused by it because it does not follow the traditional patrynomics. Karl's father Jan started using the name, added to the end of his traditional patrynomic last name Erikson, and his children and grandchildren all followed suit, using only the name Spångberg.
 
Thank you so much!
Maggie
mk4997a@student.american.edu