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Skriv ut sidan - Options; Arkivdigital, Genline, SVAR
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Titel: Options; Arkivdigital, Genline, SVAR
Skrivet av: Judy Olson Baouab skrivet 2012-05-31, 16:34
If you subscribe to a service with scanned Swedish parish books, you will quickly learn a handful of the most commonly used words. Lack of fluency in Swedish has not stopped me from going back generations in the Swedish records. You already own Your Swedish Roots and eventually you may want to purchase the more detailed Cradled in Sweden.
I copy/paste my Arkiv Digital images into a free service called Irfanview. (I discovered it at the Family History Library.) It allows me to save the image and put it into my genealogy program. (I used to make lots and lots of printouts, which after a few years started to take over my home. I am much more selective about what I print out now.)
http://www.irfanview.com/
These locations in the U.S. have access to Genline.
(Also, your public library might have a subscription to Ancestry.com's library edition. The one in my hometown has the scanned parish records for Sweden.)
If you live close to a Family History Center with Arkiv Digital, I suppose you could skip that subscription and perhaps get a subscription to SVAR. Here are subscription details for SVAR.
Use a currency converter to see what the SVAR prices look like in American dollars.
http://www.xe.com/ucc/
I subscribe to Genline, SVAR, and Arkiv Digital. All have ways in which they are better than the others. Make sure that the parishes, time periods, and types of records you need are available before subscribing to any one service.
I tend to use Arkiv Digital the most because of its excellent images, but strangely, the other services sometimes have clearer images than Arkiv Digital.
The services don't have exactly the same records.
SVAR has some really nice records which aren't on Arkiv Digital.
Judy
(Meddelandet ändrat av Judy Olson Baouab 2012-05-31 16:41)