Help in reading handwriting

[Carol Kemp]

I am trying to verify that the mother of Lenart (Linnar) Olofsson’s children is Kerstin (or Christina) Johansdotter.  Some family trees have Christina Persdotter and some trees have Olof married to three different women.  I believe that Kerstin is the mother of all of his children: Brita, Kerstin, Karin, Johan, Erich, and Lars.  I need someone who can read the Gothic handwriting to verify this.  These are my 5th great grandparents, and the second child Kerstin would be my 4th great-grandmother so I’m hoping this is right.  Otherwise my tree is wrong.


Here are the birth records for the first and last children.  It looks like the same mother to me.  Britta, 5 Aug 1721, [/size]https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/C0000079_00044[/color]
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[/size]Lars, 15 Feb 1738, [/color][/size]https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/C0000079_00125.[/color]
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[/size]If these records don’t show the same mother, I’ll retrieve the other children’ birth records.[/color]

[/size]Thanks,  Carol[/color]

[Ulla Lundell]

Hello Carol


It will be some problem to help you with your question, because most of the text is missing and the book, place, year where you have found it


// Ulla:-)

[Yvonne Stenberg]

Both birth records show Kierstin Johansdotter as mother of the child.

Carol's miniature letters can easily be read if copying the text into f ex Notes. That is what happens when you do cut and paste. Mark the text and change size of text when copying text into the Forum.

Carol's text reads:

"Here are the birth records for the first and last children.  It looks like the same mother to me.  Britta, 5 Aug 1721, https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/C0000079_00044

Lars, 15 Feb 1738, https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/C0000079_00125.

If these records don’t show the same mother, I’ll retrieve the other children’ birth records."

[Carol Kemp]

I am so sorry that the text showed up in such a small size.  I did not realize this when I posted.  I will be more careful in the future. 


But thank you for verifying the mother, Yvonne.  It did look like the same mother to me, but it’s difficult to read the handwriting and understand what it says.  I even found a website that will allow you to put in a name and transcribe it into Gothic handwriting, but I was still not positive. 


Again, thank you both for your help.  Carol