tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45207098369759505532024-03-13T22:54:33.036+01:00Anna-Karin's Genealogical BlogThis is my blog about my genealogy and especially about
swedish and swedish -american genealogy especially my podcast Anna-Karins Genealogical Podcast http://annakarin.libsyn.comAnna-Karin Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922506904043052675noreply@blogger.comBlogger66125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520709836975950553.post-1605096786463957512022-08-24T09:42:00.016+02:002022-08-24T09:47:27.079+02:00The GenealogyDays in Skövde 20-21 Aug 2022 <p> </p><p>This year's Genealogy Days 2022 where held in Skövde 20-21 August 2022 at Arena Skövde/.The genealogy days were organized by The Skövde Genealogy Society . The Genealogy days are the yearly conference of the <a href="https://www.rotter.se/swedish-roots/about-us/the-federation" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Swedish Federation of Genealogical societies</a> .It have been held since 1988 with an exception in 2020 due to Covid 19.In 2021 it was held digitally online. </p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwQLtT8wN1Dp5u9WGJCILBc8fQFnh6xMJe0eDKZWH_-gqzD_j_zZluDd4c2dDv8dBWnpQRKuwnbR_eb-3jtT4h426uIctF8lhIZtvnq0B0dGoHeR71Y27F2Ym9Z89GDC7Z1ffJ__B_lRiZL4ThHXpr2u_8aQGxU2ocj2yyY7aAzbYy2oIgzBRIgEWN" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjwQLtT8wN1Dp5u9WGJCILBc8fQFnh6xMJe0eDKZWH_-gqzD_j_zZluDd4c2dDv8dBWnpQRKuwnbR_eb-3jtT4h426uIctF8lhIZtvnq0B0dGoHeR71Y27F2Ym9Z89GDC7Z1ffJ__B_lRiZL4ThHXpr2u_8aQGxU2ocj2yyY7aAzbYy2oIgzBRIgEWN" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /><p></p><div><div>Genealogical Societies, Genealogy vendors and genealogists from all over Sweden and neighboring countries met.to listen to lectures, meet and buy genealogy related products. among the international vendors represented where <a href="http://Ancestry.com">Ancestry.com</a>,<a href="https://www.myheritage.se/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">My Heritage</a>,<a href="https://www.familytreedna.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">FamilyTreeDNA</a></div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_dEC6SI3v16cHBakJ2Oj9-oRa8hzE56aUr8rEwWZ58yEib0gHmouui5z43GeyEkGGs7vx-OHUE4IM3uOEWQEuqCBW1k_CyT1IBhIXaLO79nigEzK8FT9MI8rhDzY_GhAqj2yQW8pgePkicq59l5vSffNRN_hs5GsGMAGo8OiHnCqV6A0ngCX6a3zQ" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEg_dEC6SI3v16cHBakJ2Oj9-oRa8hzE56aUr8rEwWZ58yEib0gHmouui5z43GeyEkGGs7vx-OHUE4IM3uOEWQEuqCBW1k_CyT1IBhIXaLO79nigEzK8FT9MI8rhDzY_GhAqj2yQW8pgePkicq59l5vSffNRN_hs5GsGMAGo8OiHnCqV6A0ngCX6a3zQ" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div><div>Niklas Hertzman from <a href="https://www.arkivdigital.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Arkivdigital.com </a>helped keen genealogists with the art of</div><div>find their ancestors in church records and other old documents. Arkivdigital is a company that <br />digitizes and indexes swedish archival record in color.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkA6S2KgtGkQmBU0tLG0u3kSpnt-4AVMb0DPuyRxRDVU3s71PhDHsa3K5YtxJkylR1cOzZ-xYyTPlT9Q6PgQokYPaaWiTsjTmrljhAZUHf6_Ay2_G4RCvBsCfypdyICDm_Ok-ESeieAQWAxjXDcQJZUut8tBCYZGDgCzkumxkw5Z2h3LR0rtqJZN91" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgkA6S2KgtGkQmBU0tLG0u3kSpnt-4AVMb0DPuyRxRDVU3s71PhDHsa3K5YtxJkylR1cOzZ-xYyTPlT9Q6PgQokYPaaWiTsjTmrljhAZUHf6_Ay2_G4RCvBsCfypdyICDm_Ok-ESeieAQWAxjXDcQJZUut8tBCYZGDgCzkumxkw5Z2h3LR0rtqJZN91" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div><div>Two happy ladies from the <a href="http://Ancestry..com">Ancestry..com</a> Swedish team gave away bags of sweets</div><div> for Genealogists in and sold genealogy subscriptions and DNA tests.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNH9letCQ0NOfGF0LAw2C6zfW0FM885ChcDt8CzhTsw8W0CPQGdLODvV7vipy4-maDEdPs6JKeRbe6hBt7vttzuolCGj4i29-lDx2Gmm6RA1e65llO7jKXT4SRpu4p5igswBwpD7o_-s3sakEZ6jbSVEPD9ZB1O1VLniQSTdd0P4YrMZW5MapmnZqA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiNH9letCQ0NOfGF0LAw2C6zfW0FM885ChcDt8CzhTsw8W0CPQGdLODvV7vipy4-maDEdPs6JKeRbe6hBt7vttzuolCGj4i29-lDx2Gmm6RA1e65llO7jKXT4SRpu4p5igswBwpD7o_-s3sakEZ6jbSVEPD9ZB1O1VLniQSTdd0P4YrMZW5MapmnZqA" width="320" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div><a href="https://royalbooks.se/kategori/6/blog.html" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ted Rosvall </a>spoke about <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_XIV_John" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Jean Baptiste Bernadotte (Karl XIV Johan) 1764-1844</a> and his descendants both legitimate and illigitimate . Among the Bernadotte descendants are members of today's royal families in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Belgium and several former royal and princely houses in Greece and Germany as well as several noble and non-noble families across Europe and other parts of the world.</div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCWghOOljPU8aNW7Neb73AnBgLUQ8b-IB4poFICgCM1zuM90JB66WPeZ6SYIpjBDTccaSVxeE3mAmcMaXfnVni_S7MX8k6gN7M9nwvQz60QCx0aZrllEc7xbzg7G87HzU9EprmowA5vMiXMRMui_gSp-tvnkZPbtSyoyEV-PuJu8IOvujFacj9IRZm" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="720" data-original-width="960" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjCWghOOljPU8aNW7Neb73AnBgLUQ8b-IB4poFICgCM1zuM90JB66WPeZ6SYIpjBDTccaSVxeE3mAmcMaXfnVni_S7MX8k6gN7M9nwvQz60QCx0aZrllEc7xbzg7G87HzU9EprmowA5vMiXMRMui_gSp-tvnkZPbtSyoyEV-PuJu8IOvujFacj9IRZm" width="320" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div><div>Mr. DNA. <a href="https://petersjolund.se/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Peter Sjölund </a>gave a well-attended lecture on Genealogy and DNA.</div><div>Peter Sjölund became famous throughout Sweden in 2020 when he used genetic genealogy</div><div>to help the Linköping police solve a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murders_of_Mohammed_Ammouri_and_Anna-Lena_Svensson" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">double murder in Linköpng in 2004</a>.</div><div>Peter shared his knowledge of complicated DNA technology in a simple and understandable way.</div></div><div> </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgQTHwQNHMAX_PGyY12-328xNHCwhH9YZLJ_ZGjjBNhx-t5Oc8U6KTIR5InCfMViTsRo6LaBIxoQrQAMmO6y5FGmtrO15cMmYb1mt6F6MFJHc8k14vw9FwqNHpChwAqFEDbKpfpETFMp4S2dP-jI7lziojqe6E1MIp2fCsuc0-DexZGfZQknLAS6eSG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="810" data-original-width="1080" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgQTHwQNHMAX_PGyY12-328xNHCwhH9YZLJ_ZGjjBNhx-t5Oc8U6KTIR5InCfMViTsRo6LaBIxoQrQAMmO6y5FGmtrO15cMmYb1mt6F6MFJHc8k14vw9FwqNHpChwAqFEDbKpfpETFMp4S2dP-jI7lziojqe6E1MIp2fCsuc0-DexZGfZQknLAS6eSG" width="320" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div>Christina Sagersten from <a href="https://www.findingfamily.nu/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Finding Family Together</a> shared her knowledge about DNA genealogy.</div><div>in her latest book "Daddy where are you" she gives valuable tips on how to use DNA tests in</div><div> combination with traditional genealogy to find an unknown father, grandfather, grandfather etc.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLhYu1jSSKfGyiyB-yW3iPJKLU42Ja0viqw8SIUeOKRkjrTvEglg0DL4MlBr-xtTl2zLT_I0Pae3JMCtSSrXQBevAkvDitHGXOhaA33WctfyzKE0WI4sdBEg-Wbpzis5y0FIx9hX81g9NDKhAHufH7rzecUjskAc72nvtp1z_JvWh0Iyf0TiaCqMK1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="267" data-original-width="200" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiLhYu1jSSKfGyiyB-yW3iPJKLU42Ja0viqw8SIUeOKRkjrTvEglg0DL4MlBr-xtTl2zLT_I0Pae3JMCtSSrXQBevAkvDitHGXOhaA33WctfyzKE0WI4sdBEg-Wbpzis5y0FIx9hX81g9NDKhAHufH7rzecUjskAc72nvtp1z_JvWh0Iyf0TiaCqMK1" width="180" /></a></div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div>The DNA coach <a href="https://cousinlinda.com/about/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Linda Kvist </a>guided visitors into the world of DNA genealogy. Linda's</div><div>journey into DNA genealogy began when she took a DNA test and found that she had another</div><div>paternal grandfather than she thought.</div></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6HBeoSWcsJuHghvLrgo9m4_j31A6resDxpjjrV9rYp_cxcxnB7WgNvipf7X3HoQ6xeePBW1PFMui6WVaAn8I570xJR1cmUaXdFogAzyWxgIfKVWVFedXBCq1T44enF8lgV0XI12c8sOYl1_aSbszhdCfjZQy7aUjvCpNPoGTKfvVtKgXfX3h1p8FA" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="1124" data-original-width="843" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh6HBeoSWcsJuHghvLrgo9m4_j31A6resDxpjjrV9rYp_cxcxnB7WgNvipf7X3HoQ6xeePBW1PFMui6WVaAn8I570xJR1cmUaXdFogAzyWxgIfKVWVFedXBCq1T44enF8lgV0XI12c8sOYl1_aSbszhdCfjZQy7aUjvCpNPoGTKfvVtKgXfX3h1p8FA" width="180" /></a></div><br /><br /></div><div><br /></div><div><br /></div>Anna-Karin Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922506904043052675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520709836975950553.post-36588249779381808672021-08-02T00:33:00.050+02:002021-08-04T04:24:50.927+02:00 Helena Ulfsdotter Snakenborg; A Swedish lady at the Elizabethan court<p><br /></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">During the 16th century, both England and Sweden were ruled by the colorful royal houses <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Tudor" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tudor</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Vasa" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Vasa. </a>Both families had seized power by force, both had colorful and ruthless and charismatic rulers such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_I_of_Sweden" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gustav I</a> , <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_XIV_of_Sweden" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Erik XIV</a> , </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_III_of_Sweden" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: times;" target="_blank">(John III</a><span style="font-family: times;"> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_IX_of_Sweden" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Charles IX</a> in Sweden and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: times;" target="_blank">Henry VIII</a><span style="font-family: times;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: times;" target="_blank">Elizabeth I </a><span style="font-family: times;">in England. One of my distant relatives came to serve members of both.</span></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/British_School_16th_century_-_A_Young_Lady_Aged_21%2C_Possibly_Helena_Snakenborg_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="608" height="640" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/British_School_16th_century_-_A_Young_Lady_Aged_21%2C_Possibly_Helena_Snakenborg_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" width="486" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">British School 16th century _A young lady aged 21<br /> Possibly Helena Snakenborg <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_School_16th_century_-_A_Young_Lady_Aged_21,_Possibly_Helena_Snakenborg_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WikimediaCommons</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Snakenborg,_Marchioness_of_Northampton" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Helena (Elin) Ulfsdotter Snakenborg</a> was probably born around 1548-1549 in Fyllingarum manor in the province of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%96sterg%C3%B6tland" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Östergötland</a> as the daughter of Gustaf Vasa's councilor Ulf Henriksson Snakenborg to Fyllingaryd in Östergötland and Agneta Knutsdotter.Lillie.<br />Helena´s family was a branch of the old noble family Bååt (Boat) that sometimes used the </span><span style="font-family: times;">name Snakenborg wich came from Helenas fathers paternal grandmothers side of the family. Since the Swedish nobility were just beginning using family names in the 16th century Helena would sign herself as Helena or Elin Ulfsdotter (daughter of Ulf.)</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"></span></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NkP6EMyz4_4/YQWfNtLdEAI/AAAAAAAAAi4/vwDL_1rrfUQ98Rah8CSrEKau_hnXwS8EQCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="189" data-original-width="360" height="272" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-NkP6EMyz4_4/YQWfNtLdEAI/AAAAAAAAAi4/vwDL_1rrfUQ98Rah8CSrEKau_hnXwS8EQCNcBGAsYHQ/w449-h272/image.png" width="449" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Tre Kronor The old royal castle in Stockholm (burned 1697)<br />The Stockholm residence of the Swedish royal family and Helena<br />Snakenborgs workplace as a maid of honor to princess Cecilia<br />of Sweden.<br />The castle in a painting from 1661 by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Govert_Dircksz_Camphuysen" style="background: none rgb(248, 249, 250); color: #faa700; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.32px; outline-color: rgb(51, 102, 204);" title="Govert Dircksz Camphuysen">Govert Dircksz Camphuysen</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; font-size: 12.32px;">.<br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tre_Kronor_(castle)#/media/File:Slottet_Tre_Kronor_1661.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WikimediaCommons</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><br /></span></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Helena was one of the youngest of her parents six children. Due to her father's position as a member of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privy_Council_of_Sweden" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Privy Council</a> of Sweden, she probably already came into contact as a child with first the elderly miserly king Gustaf I and later the young handsome ambitious but mentally unstable Erik XIV court. Helena was of the same age as Gustav I:s three youngest children Sofia, Anna and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_IX_of_Sweden" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Karl (Charles IX</a>), perhaps they were brought up together at the royal castle <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tre_Kronor_(castle)" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tre Kronor </a>in Stockholm. </span></p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Erik_XIV,_1533-1577,_king_of_Sweden_(Steven_van_der_Meulen)_-_Nationalmuseum_-_38906.tif" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Attributed to Steven van der Meulen
, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons"><img alt="Erik XIV, 1533-1577, king of Sweden (Steven van der Meulen) - Nationalmuseum - 38906" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/Erik_XIV%2C_1533-1577%2C_king_of_Sweden_%28Steven_van_der_Meulen%29_-_Nationalmuseum_-_38906.tif/lossy-page1-334px-Erik_XIV%2C_1533-1577%2C_king_of_Sweden_%28Steven_van_der_Meulen%29_-_Nationalmuseum_-_38906.tif.jpg" width="256" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 12.3704px; text-align: left;">Portrait of swedish king Erik XIVsent to </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queen_Elizabeth_I_of_England" style="background: none rgb(248, 249, 250); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.3704px; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Queen Elizabeth I of England</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 12.3704px; text-align: left;">,<br /> to further the negotiations regarding the marriage. By </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steven_van_der_Meulen" style="background: none rgb(248, 249, 250); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.3704px; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Steven van der Meulen</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 12.3704px; text-align: left;"> 1561<br /><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_XIV_of_Sweden#/media/File:Erik_XIV,_1533-1577,_king_of_Sweden_(Steven_van_der_Meulen)_-_Nationalmuseum_-_38906.tif" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WikimediaCommons</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">Erik XIV had big plans for his future marriage. As early as 1559, he sent his younger brother</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_III_of_Sweden" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: times;" target="_blank"> Johan (John III)</a><span style="font-family: times;"> at the head of a delegation to England to propose to its new queen </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_I" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: times;" target="_blank">Elizabeth I</a><span style="font-family: times;">. The delegation was well received but Elizabeth very civilly declined.<br />Erik did not give up and contact between the courts continued. Princess</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princess_Cecilia_of_Sweden" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: times;" target="_blank"> Cecilia</a><span style="font-family: times;"> Erik and Johan's younger sister admired Elizabeth and began to correspond with her, expressing a desire to visit her in England.</span></span></p><p></p><div><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AUQ5RHt1aF4/YQckpQQjNPI/AAAAAAAAAjU/-BREdnjId60u5L8QVjn5oPZJYLK3YgtsQCNcBGAsYHQ/image.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="" data-original-height="676" data-original-width="528" height="400" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-AUQ5RHt1aF4/YQckpQQjNPI/AAAAAAAAAjU/-BREdnjId60u5L8QVjn5oPZJYLK3YgtsQCNcBGAsYHQ/w312-h400/image.png" width="312" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Princess Cecilia Gustavsdotter Vasa of Sweden<br />unknown artist: <a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/71/Cecilia_of_Baden-Rodemachern_c_1610.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WikimediaCommons</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /></div><br /><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">In 1564 the political situation in Sweden had taken a dramatic turn. King Erik had thrown his brother <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_III_of_Sweden" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Johns</a> and Johns new bride into prison. Princess Cecilia naturally was upset by this and protested. She was anxious to leave Sweden and visit England with her new husband Markgrave </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_II,_Margrave_of_Baden-Rodemachern" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: times;" target="_blank">Christopher of Baden-Rodemachern</a><span style="font-family: times;"> .</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">In the early autumn of september of 1564 the couple left Stockholm </span><span style="font-family: times;">together with a large group of courtiers including the now 15-year-old Helena Snakenborg as one of her </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maid_of_honour" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: times;" target="_blank">maids of honour</a><span style="font-family: times;">. </span><span style="font-family: times;"> Due to the war with Denmark, the entourage had to travel over Finland, Livonia, Poland, Germany and the Netherlands. After a stormy crossing the they landed in England and on September 12th they made their magnificent entry into London.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">Princess Cecilia was wearing a black velvet dress with a mantle of silver fabric. studded with pearls. and her maids of honour including Helena wore dresses in crimson and coats of the same fabric and colour. </span><span style="font-family: times;">For Helena, the arrival to London must have been overwhelming. With about 100,000 inhabitants, London was one of Europe's largest cities more than 10 times larger than Stockholm. Elisabeth I's court was with its splendor one of the most sophisticated in Europe.</span></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Elizabeth_I_Darnley_Portrait_v2.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="548" height="400" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Elizabeth_I_Darnley_Portrait_v2.jpg" width="274" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Darnley Portrait Elizabeth I ar. 1575<br /> National Portrait Gallery <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elizabeth_I_Darnley_Portrait_v2.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WikimediaCommons</a></td></tr></tbody></table><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">Princess Cecilia and her entourage were initially well received by the Queen, who became the godmother of Cecilia´s eldest son <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Fortunatus" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Edward Fortunatus</a>, born a few days after her arrival in London and named after the Queen's younger brother <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VI" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Edward VI</a>. However Cecilia's wastefulness soon caused </span><span style="font-family: times;"> tensions in her relationship with the Elizabeth I. A life-changing event for Helena came when a prominent courtier <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Parr,_1st_Marquess_of_Northampton" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">William Parr first Marquis of Northampton</a> 1513-1571 fall in love with her.</span></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/The_Marquess_of_Northampton_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="530" height="400" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/10/The_Marquess_of_Northampton_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger.jpg" width="265" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">William Parr First Marquess of Northampton<br />by Hans Holbein the Younger Royal Collection <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Marquess_of_Northampton_by_Hans_Holbein_the_Younger.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WikimediaCommons</a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">William Parr was the brother of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Parr" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: times;" target="_blank">Catherine Parr </a><span style="font-family: times;">1512-1548 Henry VIII sixth queen and thus Elizabeth I's stepmother. He had a complicated private life. He was a newly widowed but his first wife <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Bourchier,_7th_Baroness_Bourchier" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Anne Bourchier</a>, whom he divorced twenty years earlier, was still alive and it was considered that he could not remarry as long as she was alive. We do not know what Helena felt about her 35-year-old suitor. She must have been aware that a marriage with him would make her one of England's highest ranked ladies. She wrote to her worried mother in Sweden and emphasized his fine manner and high social position.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Princess Cecilia and her husband had by this time hastily left England to escape her large debts.Her debtors sized all her and her maid of honours clothes. The angry Cecilia woved revenge on England and Elizabeth ! </span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">Helena remained in England. Queen Elisabeth I , had become attached to the young girl and secured Helena a position at court by appointing her as one of her maids of honour.<br /></span><span style="font-family: times;">Life at the Elizabethan court,despite all the luxuries, was often stressful. Elisabeth I was a charismatic queen but also moody with outbursts of anger as she could also beat her favorites at court. </span><span style="font-family: times;">Helena's experience of serving members of the fierce and suspicious Vasa dynasty certainly came in handy.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">In 1568 in Sweden the political situation had changed once more . King Erik XIV had descended into mental illness and been deposed by his brother <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_III_of_Sweden" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">John III </a>who seized the throne. Erik XIV would later die in prison in possibly killed by being given peasoup spiced with arsenic !</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">It was probably during this time that the first portrait considered to depict her was painted (see top of page). She wears a white petticoat with red flowers under a red petticoat. On her head she has a white floral beret adorned with a white and a red feather.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Helena and William Parr married in May 1571, after the death of his first wife, the Queen attended the wedding which took place the Queen's Closet in Whitehall Palace. Helena became a widow when her husband died after just four month of marriage. William Parr died with big debts which the queen had to pay.</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">After her husbands death Helena returned to the royal court as one of Elizabeth I s <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lady-in-waiting" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">ladies in waiting</a> As the dowager </span><span face="arial, sans-serif" style="background-color: white; color: #202124;">marchioness</span><span style="font-family: times;"> of Northampton, Helena was the highest ranking lady at court after Elizabeth I and the queens cousin lady <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Douglas" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Margret Douglas</a> Helena returned as a widow to her service as a lady in waiting to the Queen and it was at the court that in the mid 1570s she met the man who became her second husband Sir <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Gorges" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Thomas Gorges</a> 1536-1610.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/SirThomasGorges_Died1610_OfLongfordCastle_Wiltshire.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="558" data-original-width="450" height="400" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/95/SirThomasGorges_Died1610_OfLongfordCastle_Wiltshire.jpeg" width="323" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 13.3px; text-align: start;">Portrait of Sir Thomas Gorges (1536-1610) <br />of Longford Castle in Wiltshire,<br /> a courtier and Groom of the Privy Chamber to Queen Elizabeth I<br /><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SirThomasGorges_Died1610_OfLongfordCastle_Wiltshire.jpeg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wikimediacommons</a>.</span></td></tr></tbody></table><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><br /></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">Thomas Gorges was one of Queen Elisabeth's chamberlains. </span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">Through his kinship with the powerful </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_family" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: times;" target="_blank">Howard </a><span style="font-family: times;">family, he was related by both Queen Elisabeth's mother </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Boleyn" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: times;" target="_blank">Anne Boleyn</a><span style="font-family: times;"> and her third stepmother </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Howard" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: times;" target="_blank">Katherine Howard</a><span style="font-family: times;">.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Despite his kinship to the queen Thomas Gorges was not considered to be of the same rank as Helena, since he did not yet have his own noble title. Elizabeth I who chose to live unmarried was extremely reluctant to allow her courtiers to marry. This was probably what made Helena and Thomas marry in secret in 1576. The queen was furious and banished Helena from the court and threw Thomas Gorges into the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_London" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tower of London</a>!</span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">However, the queen soon forgave the newlyweds and allowed them to return to court. Helena and Thomas Georges Marriage seems have been harmonious and resulted in eight children of whom six lived to adulthood. The time the couple did not spend at the royal court, they stayed at </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longford_Castle" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: times;" target="_blank">Longford Castle </a><span style="font-family: times;">near </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salisbury" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: times;" target="_blank">Salisbury</a><span style="font-family: times;"> in the county of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiltshire" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: times;" target="_blank">Wiltshire</a><span style="font-family: times;"> in southwest England. During their time, the property was expanded into a magnificent castle inspired by the Swedish Vasa castles</span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Longford_Castle_front.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Peter, CC BY 2.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0>, via Wikimedia Commons"><img alt="Longford Castle front" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Longford_Castle_front.jpg/512px-Longford_Castle_front.jpg" width="512" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Longford castle in Wilthshire <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Peter, CC BY 2.0 </a>, via <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Longford_Castle_front.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wikimedia Commons </a></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">.</span></span><span style="font-family: times;">The diplomatic relations between England and Sweden in the 1570-thies was a bit tense. The princess Cecilia had returned to Sweden and settled in the city of </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arboga" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: times;" target="_blank">Arboga </a><span style="font-family: times;">. She send </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privateer" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: times;" target="_blank">privateers</a><span style="font-family: times;"> out the Baltic where they sized the cargo of English ships.The princess meant that she had the right to keep the cargo as compensation for the property she had lost to her debtors when she left England in 1566. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">In 1582 Thomas Gorges lend an embassy to Sweden </span><span style="font-family: times;">where he also met members of the Snakenborg family. As far as we know, Helena never returned to Sweden after her move to England. But she corresponded with her mother and siblings, one of her brothers was present at her first husband's funeral in 1571.</span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: times;">In 1580ties he Elizabeth I rewarded Helena and her husband with the Sheen property for their lifetime. Sheen was located near the </span><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Palace" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: times;" target="_blank">Richmond Palace</a><span style="font-family: times;">, the queen's main residence, which allowed the spouses to live with the children even when they were in court.</span></span></p><p></p><h4 style="text-align: left;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Wyngaerde_Richmond_1562.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="274" data-original-width="800" height="138" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c7/Wyngaerde_Richmond_1562.jpg" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; font-size: 12.32px;"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richmond_Palace" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Richmond Palace</a>, west front, drawn by </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antony_van_den_Wyngaerde" style="background: none rgb(248, 249, 250); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.32px; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Antony van den Wyngaerde">Antony Wyngaerde</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; font-size: 12.32px;">, dated 1562<br /><a href="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/Richmond_Palace.png" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WikimediaCommons</a></span></td></tr></tbody></table><br /></h4><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Helena remained Elizabeth's close confidant and, due to the Queen's faltering health often had to represent the queen on official occasions at the end of the 1590s. At the Queen's funeral in 1603, she walked closest to the coffin as the highest ranked female mourner present.</span></p><p><br /></p>
<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Helena_Snakenborg,_Marchioness_of_Northampton,_1603.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" title="Robert Peake the elder
, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons"><img alt="Helena Snakenborg, Marchioness of Northampton, 1603" height="400" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Helena_Snakenborg%2C_Marchioness_of_Northampton%2C_1603.jpg/256px-Helena_Snakenborg%2C_Marchioness_of_Northampton%2C_1603.jpg" width="247" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times; font-size: x-small;">Helena Snakenborg, Marchioness of Northampton, 1603<br /></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">Helena Snakenborg widow marquis of Northampton in that costume<br /></span><span style="font-family: times; font-size: small;">she bore at James I coronation 1603 artist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Peake_the_Elder" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Robert Peake the Elder</a><br /><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Helena_Snakenborg,_Marchioness_of_Northampton,_1603.jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">WikimediaCommons</a></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Helena and Thomas Gorges attended the coronation of the new King <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_VI_and_I" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">James I </a>in 1603 at Westminster Abbey in London. Helena was portrayed by the artist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Peake_the_Elder" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Robert Peake the Elde</a>r in the magnificent red dress adorned with ermine she wore at the coronation.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">After Thomas Gorge's death in 1610, her Helena increasingly withdrew from the center of power of which she had been a part since her arrival in England 45 years earlier. She returned to court a few times to assist in diplomatic negotiations with Sweden over a possible marriage between the princess </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Stuart,_Queen_of_Bohemia" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: times; font-size: large;" target="_blank">Elizabeth</a><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> and the Swedish prince </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavus_Adolphus" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: times; font-size: large;" target="_blank">Gustavus Adolphus </a><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">son of Helenas childhood friend king </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_IX_of_Sweden" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: times; font-size: large;" target="_blank">Charles IX</a><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"> which was never completed due to the opposition of the princess mother queen </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_of_Denmark" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: times; font-size: large;" target="_blank">Anne of Denmark</a><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;">.</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://tudorqueen6.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/helena-salisbury-cathedral1.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="333" data-original-width="500" height="333" src="https://tudorqueen6.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/helena-salisbury-cathedral1.jpg" width="500" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: times;">Helena Snakenborg lady Gorges detail of grave monuments in<br /> Salisbury Cathedral h</span><span style="font-family: times;">original photo<a href="https://tudorqueen6.com/2013/04/10/family-of-queen-katherine-the-death-of-the-marchioness-of-northampton/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">: tudorqueen6.com</a></span></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">She had a varied life to look back on and a large family to worry about. According to a contemporary writer, she had 92 descendants at the time of her death! Helena died on 10 April 1934 at the age of 86 at Longford castle and was buried next to Thomas Gorges under a stately monument in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salisbury_Cathedral" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Salisbury Chatedral</a> (No bad career for a girl from Östergötland)!</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><img alt="Salisbury Cathedral (St. Mary) (14674778559)" height="400" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/eb/Salisbury_Cathedral_%28St._Mary%29_%2814674778559%29.jpg/256px-Salisbury_Cathedral_%28St._Mary%29_%2814674778559%29.jpg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" width="266" /></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 12.3704px; text-align: left;">Monument and effigies, in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salisbury_Cathedral" style="background: none rgb(248, 249, 250); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.3704px; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;" title="">Salisbury Cathedral</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 12.3704px; text-align: left;">, Wiltshire,<br /> of </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Snakenborg" style="background: none rgb(248, 249, 250); color: #0645ad; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 12.3704px; text-align: left; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Helena Snakenborg">Helena Snakenborg</a><span face="sans-serif" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 12.3704px; text-align: left;"> (d.1635) and her second husband <br />Sir Thomas Gorges (1536–1610). Erected after her death in 1635</span></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salisbury_Cathedral_(St._Mary)_(14674778559).jpg" style="text-align: left;">Hugh Llewelyn from Keynsham, UK</a><span style="text-align: left;">, </span><a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0" style="text-align: left;">CC BY-SA 2.0</a><span style="text-align: left;">,<br /> via <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Salisbury_Cathedral_(St._Mary)_(14674778559).jpg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Wikimedia Commons</a></span></span></div><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"> </span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Web links and sources</span></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Videos:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Claire Ridgeway from The Anne Boleyn Files talks about Helena Snakenborg</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/BzKXyFiHb6w" width="320" youtube-src-id="BzKXyFiHb6w"></iframe></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: large;"><p><br /></p></span><p></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Claire Ridgeway and her dog Teasel speaking about maids of honour and ladies in waiting at the court of Elizabeth I.<br /><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MUITK3mOBAM" width="320" youtube-src-id="MUITK3mOBAM"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">A video with views from Longford Castle built by Helena and her second husband Thomas Gorges</span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><iframe allowfullscreen="" class="BLOG_video_class" height="266" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/YFxvEIHavF8" width="320" youtube-src-id="YFxvEIHavF8"></iframe></div><br /><p></p><p><br /></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Web links</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">in english</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://skbl.se/en/article/HelenaSnakenborg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Helena Ulfsdotter Snakenborg </a>in Svenskt Kvinnobiografiskt Lexikon (Swedish Encyclopedia of women)<br /></span><span style="font-family: times; 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vertical-align: baseline;" title="11:00 PM"><time class="entry-date" datetime="2013-04-10T23:00:12-04:00">April 10, 2013</time></a> by <a href="https://tudorqueen6.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tudorqueen6 </a> </span></h1><div><br /></div><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">in Swedish</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a class="visible_link" href="https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/artikel/6081" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #357ebd; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; outline-offset: -2px; outline: -webkit-focus-ring-color auto 5px;" target="_blank"></a></span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10.5px;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><a href="https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=6081" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Snakenborg, släkt, urn:sbl:6081, <em style="box-sizing: border-box;">Svenskt biografiskt lexikon</em></a> (art av Hans Gillingstam), hämtad 2021-05-2</span></p><ul class="no_bullets" style="background-color: #f4f0d1; box-sizing: border-box; font-family: "Source Sans Pro", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; margin-bottom: 10.5px; margin-top: 0px;"><li style="box-sizing: border-box; list-style-type: none; margin: 0px 0px 5px;"><br /></li></ul><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://popularhistoria.se/sveriges-historia/kungar-drottningar/hovet/elisabets-sangkamrat" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Helena Snakenborg: Drottning Elisabeths sängkamrat </a>Art.by Birgitta von Heland Published in Populär Historia 5/2002</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Literature:</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">in Swedish</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Helena Snakenborg: en svenska vid Elisabet I: s hov / Gunnar Sjögren. 1973</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Fiction</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">in english</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Roses-Have-Thorns-Elizabeth-Waiting/dp/1439183163" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Roses have Thorns a novel about Helena Snakenborg by Sandra Byrd</a> 2013</span></p><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><br /></span></p><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;">Triology about Frances Gorges the daughter of Helena Snakesborg dotter<br /> by <a href="http://www.tracyborman.co.uk/books" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Tracy Borman</a> <br /><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kings-Witch-Tracy-Borman/dp/1473662303" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Kings Witch (2018)</a><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Devils-Slave-highly-anticipated-Frances-Trilogy/dp/1473662516/ref=pd_lpo_1?pd_rd_i=1473662516&psc=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Devils slave (2019)</a><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fallen-Angel-Frances-Gorges/dp/1473662532/ref=pd_bxgy_img_2/260-6084485-2945512?pd_rd_w=VBlrY&pf_rd_p=c7ea61ca-7168-47e3-9c8b-d84748f5b23c&pf_rd_r=KQ82FPQG2PBM49Y1QJDM&pd_rd_r=55d73666-b43b-4beb-a4a2-79e0c0c14623&pd_rd_wg=6k0lq&pd_rd_i=1473662532&psc=1" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">The Fallen Angel (2020)</a></span></div><p><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"></span></p><div><span style="font-family: times; font-size: medium;"><h2 style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: "Open Sans", sans-serif; font-size: 21px; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: 1px; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 1.5em 0px 0.5em; text-transform: uppercase; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></h2></span></div><p><br /></p>Anna-Karin Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922506904043052675noreply@blogger.com0Växjö, Sverige56.8790044 14.805852328.568770563821154 -20.350397700000002 85.189238236178852 49.9621023tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520709836975950553.post-47911719735530990622017-10-03T21:50:00.003+02:002017-10-03T21:50:31.185+02:00The Minnesota Day in Ljuder Church August 13, 2017<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This years Minnesota day was held as usual in the church in Ljuder in<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lessebo_Municipality" target="_blank"> Lessebo municipality </a> in honour of the writer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhelm_Moberg" target="_blank">Vilhelm Moberg </a>and the emigrants from the Ljuder area to Minnesota and other parts of the world.<br />
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Among the guests who faithfully have returned the recent years were the former head of <a href="http://www.kulturparkensmaland.se/1.0.1.0/766/2/" target="_blank">The Swedish Emigrant Institute</a>' in Växjö former Professor Ulf Beijbom. and Monica Banaz from the University of Krakow in Poland.<br />
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A Swedish-American churchservice was held and the Swedish-American of the year the Swedish diplomat <a href="http://www.vasaorder.com/SwedishAmerican/Press%20release%20Jan%20Eliasson%202017%20med%20%C3%B6vers%C3%A4ttning%20utg%202.pdf" target="_blank">Jan Eliasson </a> was also presented.<br />
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Folkdancers from Vissefjärda danced traditional swedish folkdances beside Ljuders Local Heritage<br />
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<br />Anna-Karin Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922506904043052675noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520709836975950553.post-85249024655271202812017-08-03T14:46:00.001+02:002017-08-03T14:46:22.437+02:00ArkivDigital photographs Swedish-American church records .<br />
When the Swedes emigrated to the United States and Canada, they often formed their own Swedish-speaking churches. The oldest were founded in the late 1840-thies and the beginning of the 1850-thies and the last in the 1920-thies The largest congregation was the lutheran <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustana_Evangelical_Lutheran_Church" target="_blank">Augustana synod</a> . The most important of the others were the<a href="http://www.covchurch.org/mission/" target="_blank"> Evangelical Covenant church</a> and ther were also <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Converge_(Baptist_organization)" target="_blank">Swedish baptist </a>and Methodist congregations as well as the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelical_Free_Church_of_America" target="_blank">Evangelical Free church </a><br />
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During the 1970-thies and 1980-thies, <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/lennartsetterdahl/home" target="_blank">Lennart Setterdahl</a> was commissioned by the <a href="http://www.kulturparkensmaland.se/1.0.1.0/766/2/" target="_blank">Swedish Emigrant Institute</a> to microfilm much of the chrurchrecords . The microfilms are currently available at the Swedish Emigrant Institute in Växjö and at the <a href="https://augustana.net/general-information/swenson-center" target="_blank"> Swenson Swedish Emigration Center</a> at<a href="https://augustana.net/" target="_blank"> Augustana College</a> in Rock Island, Illinois,<br />
Last year, <a href="https://www.arkivdigital.net/" target="_blank">Arkivdigital</a> began digitizing the Swedish-American church archives in several states to the delight of professsional and emigrant and family researchers. The digitization also includes material from some churches that have not previously been filmed. In 2016, material from Kansas was digitized, This year,work on digitizing materials from Minnesota and Nebraska has begun. ArkivDigital tells about the progress of their work at their <a href="http://blog.arkivdigital.net/" target="_blank">blog</a><br />
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<br />Anna-Karin Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922506904043052675noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520709836975950553.post-53302544983861987372017-07-21T14:09:00.000+02:002017-07-21T23:16:17.943+02:00Murder on Christmas night! The shooting of Swan Nelson in Chicago 25 Dec 1893 Part 2<span style="font-family: inherit;">
Swan Nelson was buried on December 28nd at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oak_Woods_Cemetery" target="_blank">Oakwood Cemetery</a> outside Chicago. The burial service was most likely performed by pastor Carl Granath of the swedish-speaking Zion Evangelical Lutheran church which Swan and his relatives attended. In its It is burial record he is listed as "shot December 25th 3 AM" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"> The news of his death spread fast among the Swedish-Americans in Chicago and caused great anger . It increased the ethnic tensions between Swedish-Americans and Irish-Americans.<span en.wikipedia.org="" hicago_daily_news="" https:="" style="color: The Swedish-Americans had to some extent taken over the Anglo-Americans' prejudices against the Irish combined with general anti-Catholic prejudice. <a href=;" target="_blank" wiki="">The Chicago Daily News</span> described the shooting as unjustified and the Swedish-American newspapers raged. The Swedish-American organisations quickly organised <b><i><a href="http://flps.newberry.org/article/5423404_3_1227" target="_blank">The Swedish National League </a></i></b>to raise money for an investigation and legal counsel to make sure the two policemen were tried and punished. The leaders of the committee were contractor <b>August G Myhrman</b>, lawyer <a href="https://findingaids.library.northwestern.edu/repositories/6/resources/1120" target="_blank"><b>Harry Olsson</b> </a>and <b>William Wennerholm</b>. Support also came from the Swedish-American newspapers , including <a href="http://www.mnhs.org/newspapers/swedishamerican/svenska-tribunen" target="_blank">Svenska Tribunen</a>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"><i><b>"Lying on the ground dying with his lefeblood flowing on that frost-coveredside-walk,Swan Nelson grasped" I treated them,they wanted more,I refused and the policemen shot me. I am dying,I have done no wrong.´Gentlemen of the jury,this was an awful crime;yours should be an awful verdict"</b></i></span></span></div>
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The jury sentenced the policemen to 14 years in prison for manslaughter . They were sent toThe <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joliet_Correctional_Center" target="_blank">Illinois State Penitentiary</a> in Joliet Illinois.. The sentence was however not the end of the story. <br />
The case was appealed and two more trials were held in the following years.. In the 1897 trial, the sentence was reduced to 4 years in prison. In 1899, the case was was again back in court, but it was decided not to hold another trial and Moran and Healy were returned to prison . However, according to The 1900 Federal Census they are not listed aong the prisoners at Illinois State Penitentiary.Perhaps they had been transferred to another prison or released .</div>
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The trial had consequences for all involved Josephine bjorkman died in 1901 Fred Lundin got contacts in politics served in the Illinois state senate and a term in the House of Representatives congress before becomming the power behind the corrupt Chicago mayor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Hale_Thompson" target="_blank">William Hale Thompson </a> l <a href="http://prabook.com/web/person-view.html?profileId=1406339" target="_blank">Luther Laflin Mills </a>had a succesfull Career as lawyer before his death in 1909 Harry Olson later became first chief judge of the Juvenile Court of Chicago.<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Even for Swans family life had to go on. His brother <b>John Nelson </b>married his fiancé <b>Maria (Mary) Benson</b> in february1894 .they got two children <b>Selma</b> and <b>Nels</b> John Nelson became a Saloon keper the family settled in the <a href="http://www.encyclopedia.chicagohistory.org/pages/93.html" target="_blank">Austin</a> area of Chicago.John became a member of the of the Indipendent Order of Vikings and later of the <a href="https://www.svithiod.org/aboutus.htm" target="_blank">Independent order of Svithiod.</a> .He died in 1938. His only grandchild died unmarried in2007. His sister <b>Elna Neson </b> married <b>Albert Stedman</b> and died 1944 in San Fransisco,California..<br /><b>Karna (Carrie) Nelson</b> married <b>John M Anderson</b> they first lived in Illinois but later moved to Washington near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Pleasant,_Iowa">Mount Pleasant</a>, Iowa. Swans youngest <b style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"> </b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;">sister</span><b style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"> Johanna (Hannah) Nelson</b><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> 1874- married </span><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> </span></span><strong>Oscar Frederick Johnson. </strong>they moved from Illinois<strong> </strong>to <strong> </strong>Flint River<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> <span style="font-size: small;">near </span> </span></span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlington,_Iowa" target="_blank">Burlington</a>, Iowa<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">, <span style="font-size: small;">All sisters left descendants. </span></span></span><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">During the following years the area were Swan Nelson was murdered became the home for many Sicilian immigrants .</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial";">The antagonism between Swedish-Americans and Irish-Americans deacresed with time and they came to direct their prejudices towards newer immigrants and minority groups as East -Europeans and Afro-Americans.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;">More about the shooting of Swan Nelson can be read in </span></span><a href="http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/npu_sahq/id/6198/rec/2" style="color: #888888; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">här</a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> i i</span></span><a href="https://www.swedishamericanhist.org/the-quarterly/" style="color: #888888; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;"> <b>The Swedish American Historical Quaterly</b></a><span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial" , "tahoma" , "helvetica" , "freesans" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 13.2px;"> 2014 </span></span><a href="http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/npu_sahq/id/6198/rec/2" style="color: #888888; font-family: arial, tahoma, helvetica, freesans, sans-serif;">jan no. 1</a><br />
</span>Anna-Karin Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922506904043052675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520709836975950553.post-39841655793284571372017-04-19T15:39:00.001+02:002017-07-21T22:13:31.612+02:00Murder on Christmas Night ! The shooting of Swan Nelson in Chicago Dec 25 1893 part 1 On Chistmas Eve 1893 Swan Nelson a young Swedish Emigrant closed his little tobacco store on Archer Ave on Chicagos <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Side,_Chicago" target="_blank">south side </a> at 4 pm and walked to his home close by near 32 Street .;<br />
Swan was born as one of 7 surviving children in 1871 in the village of Magletorp in Trolle- Ljungby in the province of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scania" target="_blank">Skåne (Scania) </a>in southern Sweden as the son of Nils Johnson 1820-1881 and Sissa Johnsdotter 1830-1891.<br />
After the the death of their father, Nels two oldest sisters Elna and Karna emigrated to the USA in 1882. after their mothers death Sven and his older brother Jöns and their youngest sister Johanna emigrated in march 1892. Sven and Jöns settled in Chicago where their maternal aunt Elna(Ella) Benson and her two children lived..<br />
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In Chicago Jöns and Sven Nilsson quickly became<b> John</b> and <b>Swan Nelson</b> . Life apparently went well for the two brothers Swan quickly learned a bit of english and manged to accuire a little tobacco store. He also took part in the social life of the Swedish-Americans in the city. In the summer of 1893 he became one of the charter members of the lodge Angantyr of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independent_Order_of_Vikings" target="_blank">The Independent order of Vikings</a>. In the summer and fall of 1893 Chicago also hosted <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Columbian_Exposition" target="_blank">The Worlds Columbian Exposition</a> .with visitors from allover the USA and the world visiting Chicago.<br />
The city was also plagued by crime and violence and political corruption and shortly before the Exposition closed Chicago mayor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carter_Harrison_Sr." target="_blank">Carter Harrison</a> was murdered .<br />
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Swan had all reasons to be content with his life in Chicago and to look forward to a bright futute unfortunate his life was cut short all too soon. On Christmas evening Swan went to a small Christmas party held by his neigbours <b>Otto</b> and <b>Josephine</b> <b>Bjorkman </b> . he and the bjorkman family and a few other friends celebrated Christmas Eve the Swedish way with some food and drink.<br />
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About 2.30 AM early on Christmas morning Swan left the Bjorkmans home. Despite being early in the mornng he decided to go to the Northelfer´s saloon nearby. Outside the saloon he met two Irish-american policemen <b>Michael J Healy</b> and <b>Thomas J Moran</b> who had had some drinks in another saloon earlier in the evening.<br />
They insisted that Swan should buy them some drinks in the saloon. The three men went inside where there where a few sleepy german-american customers and the bartender .The bartender gave the policemen cigars and Swan bought them each a drink. but when they insisted he should buy them more he refused.<br />
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They then beat him with a club. and then cleared the saloon.
Outside the Saloon the quarell continued. They arrested Swan Nelson and while Mooran went to call the police-wagon Healy held him. Swan then brooke lose and ran towards his home .The two policemen fired 5 shoots (in the air) they later said.<br />
Swan Nelson was hit in the back. Mrs.Bjorkman heard the shot and opened the door. Mooran entered and said he had fired at a robber and demanded more whiskey !.Swan Nelson had managed to crawl to his house where mrs Bjorkman found him dying.<br />
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<i> "Here is my watch,mrs Bjorkman" he said " I am shoot and will die !</i>.
the two policemen returned.Healy treatened to shot mrs Bjorkman if she left the dying man , he also hit her in the face she later testified. Swan Nelson was dragged to the sidewalk where he was heard saying "<i>I die,I die ,I have done no wrong,Have I no friends here? help-I am dying."</i> The police-wagon arrived and took him to the hospital where he died later on Christmas day .<br />
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<br />Anna-Karin Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922506904043052675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520709836975950553.post-52780535773487657212016-11-11T18:38:00.000+01:002016-11-11T18:38:15.077+01:00Research tips for November<span style="font-family: inherit;">The Swedish digital provider of digitized Swedish church record <a href="http://www.arkivdigital.net/" target="_blank">Arkiv Digital</a> announces <a href="http://www.arkivdigital.net/products/adonline/try-for-free" target="_blank">free access</a> to their records for the Weekend of 12-13 November.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Linda Kvist has started a new podcast about Swedish genealogy in English it is called</span><br />
<a href="http://cousinlinda.com/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Cousin Linda </span></a><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">The <a href="http://www.mnhs.org/" target="_blank">Minnesota Historical Society</a> has opened a new website for showing digitized Swedish-American newspapers. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hundreds of Swedish-language newspapers were published in the United States from 1850 onward,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">catering to America's Swedish immigrant communities. Use <a href="http://www.mnhs.org/newspapers/swedishamerican" target="_blank">this online portal</a> to learn more about these newspapers, and to search over 300,000 digitized newspaper pages from 28 different Swedish American newspaper titles published across the United States between 1859 and 2007. </span><span style="background-color: white;"><br /></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.northpark.edu/" target="_blank">North Park University </a> in Chicago has digitized the records of the first Swedish church in Chicago<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;">the </span><a href="http://collections.carli.illinois.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/npu_ansgar" target="_blank">St. Ansgarius Protestant Episcopal Church</a><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Founded in 1849, St. Ansgarius Episcopal Church was the first parish established for the growing community of Swedish immigrants in the city of Chicago. The church was formed jointly by the Swedish and Norwegian communities within the neighborhood of Swede Town (present-day River North). <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustaf_Unonius" target="_blank">Gustaf Unonius </a>(1810-1902), a Swedish pioneer and Episcopal priest, served as the church’s first pastor for 10 years.</span>Anna-Karin Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922506904043052675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520709836975950553.post-83157945632887881812016-10-15T12:02:00.000+02:002016-10-15T12:02:37.032+02:00Swede Hollow -The Swedish slums in Saint Paul, Part 1In the swedish consiousness the typical Swedish Emigrants to USA are often symbolized by swedish author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhelm_Moberg"><b>Vilhelm Moberg</b></a> main characters in his novel series <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%3Cb%3EThe_Emigrants%3C/b%3E_(novel_series)">The Emigrants</a>.<br />
In the books the young hardworking farmer couple Karl Oskar and Kristina Nilsson immigrates to Chisago county,Minnesota to create a better future in the 1850thies.<br />
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What few realise is that this image is only part of the thruth. Most swedish emigrants came to USA to settle in larger or smaller cities. The swedes also got their fair share of prejudices,racism,disease and slums. On of the slums that some of the swedish emigrants lived in was <a href="http://www.mnopedia.org/place/swede-hollow"><b>Swede Hollow</b></a> on the East side of <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Paul,_Minnesota">Saint Paul</a></b> Minnesota. Situated between <b><a href="http://www.historicsaintpaul.org/files/payne_avenue.pdf" target="_blank">Payne Ave.</a></b> and East 7nth Street on the border between <a href="http://saintpaulhistorical.com/items/show/292"><b>Railroad island</b></a> and <b><a href="http://www.historicsaintpaul.org/files/Daytons%20Bluff%20Web.pdf" target="_blank">Dayton's Bluff</a></b> the area is now a park a green area but until 1956 it was one of the poorest parts of St. Paul.<br />
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The area is located in the lower part of <b><a href="http://saintpaulhistorical.com/items/show/291"><b>Phalen Creek</b></a> Valley<a href="http://saintpaulhistorical.com/items/show/291"></a></b> a narrow gorge about1,2 kilometers long surrounded by 20-30 meter high cliffs . in its bottom flows a stream Phalen Creek. The area has several springs and caves .The stream soon attracted industries to the surrounding area.
Several breweries primarely the large <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamm%27s_Brewery"><b>Hamm Brewerey</b></a>.its large buildings and its owners Theodore Hamms magnificent <a href="http://saintpaulhistorical.com/items/show/33"><b>residence</b></a> was right next to the ravine. A railroad line to Duluth went through the valley.<br />
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The area´s first inhabitants were non swedish trappers and ,loggers and odd job workers who lived there in the 1840-thies.
the Swedes began to settle in the area in the 1850thies and came to dominate it for fifty years. They called the area Svenska Dalen (Swedish Valley) but it soon became known under its unofficial name <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swede_Hollow,_Saint_Paul"><b>Swede Hollow</b> </a>(Swedish hole)<br />
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By the end of the 19th century Swede Hollow was an place where poor immigrants could find cheap accomodation when they began their life in USA It also was a stepping stone werethey could reside for some time until they could "move up" both socially and geographicly to more more social-established areas in the city .it was also a refuge for those who went through hard times and needed a place to pull themself together . it was a slum and many remained poor diseases flourished and child mortality was high.<br />
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Swede Hollow was not devided into street,blocks and lots. The only street in Swede Hollow meandered along Phalen Creek. .The houses and shacks were self build and build close together were there were place left . Some inhabitants kept small animals as chicken out of necessity. The residents took their water from a well and used the creek as their sewer. Some of the residents built their outhouses on piles over the brook<br />
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In 1881 the swedes got new neigbours when a group of Irish moved into the valley..The Irish area became known as <a href="http://saintpaulhistorical.com/items/show/9" target="_blank">Connemara Patch</a> .The Irish lived downstreems Phalen Creek from the swedes and sometimes got the dirt from the swedish outhouses.the relationships between the groups was tense.<br />
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At the start of the 20tcentury as more of Swede Hollows swedish residents became more socially established.They bagan to move up from the valley and into more established neigbourhoods in St.Paul.new immigrant groups began to settle in Swede Hollow .First italians later poles and other East europeans.After World War one the area became home to newly arrived Mexicans.<br />
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After word War two the city authorities began to see the area as a burden.In 1956 it "discovered" that the sanitary conditions in Swede Hollow was unfit without access to municipal water and sewers.<br />
Despite protest from local residents,they were evicted . <span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On november 2 1956 the Saint Paul Firedepartment set the remaining empty houses on fire. in 1978 the area begame inagurated as a park </span><a href="http://www.swedehollow.org/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Swede Hollow Park</span></a><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><br />
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This year's Minnesota day celebration was held on August 14 and took place as usual in Ljuder Church in in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lessebo_Municipality" target="_blank">Lessebo</a> municipality in Småland .The area is known for being the home area of swedish author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhelm_Moberg" target="_blank">Vilhelm Moberg's</a> and the setting for his novel series <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Emigrants_(novel_series)" target="_blank">(The Emigrants)</a> about the <span style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 22.4px;">of the first significant wave of </span>immigration to the United States in the 1840thies and 1850thies.<br />
The opening speach was held by the municipality manager in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lessebo_Municipality" target="_blank">Lessebo</a> Christina Nyquist.<br />
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This year's Honorary speaker was retired bishop of Växjö Jan-Olof Johansson, He spoke on the subject "Always on the run" which he compared the migration flows past and present.<br />
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The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_American_of_the_Year" target="_blank">Swedish-American of the Year</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nils_Lofgren" target="_blank">Nils Lofgren</a> with roots in the province of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4rmland" target="_blank">Värmland</a> was presented by the Grand Lodge Deputy <span style="font-family: "verdana" , "tahoma" , "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #efefef;">o</span></span>f the <a href="http://www.vasaorder.com/" target="_blank">Vasa Order of America</a> Catherine Bringselius-Nilsson.<br />
Nils Lofgren has become known as an outstanding musician and guitarist of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band.<br />
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Guests were sounding the <span style="font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;">handbell ensemble</span><span style="color: #333333; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 17px;"> </span><a href="http://www.strikepoint.com/" target="_blank">Strikepoint</a> from from Duluth in northern <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota" target="_blank">Minnesota</a>.They have toured worldwide and now they entertained the the audience in Ljuders church with several beautiful melodies with their bells of different sizes.<br />
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One of the most popular features on the program each year is "Greetings from near and far away " Among the greatings this year was Swedish Emigrant Institute Fellow of 2000 Monica Banas from the <a href="http://www.en.uj.edu.pl/en_GB/start" target="_blank">University of Krakow </a><br />
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Another faithful visitor to to the Minnesotaday and other Swedish-American events was Carl Boberg who brougt greetings from his hometown <a href="http://cityofnisswa.com/" target="_blank">Nisswa</a> in nothern Minnesota .<br />
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Last but not least was the <a href="http://www.kulturparkensmaland.se/1.0.1.0/14/2/" target="_blank">Swedish Emigrant Institute</a>'s first director Professor Ulf Beijbom present along with his wife, textileartist Viola Kristiansson.<br />
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<br />Anna-Karin Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922506904043052675noreply@blogger.com0360 53 Ljuder, Sverige56.6810848 15.3152860999999838.5730633 -25.993307900000019 74.7891063 56.62388009999998tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520709836975950553.post-10297374914060375692016-06-03T07:45:00.000+02:002016-06-03T07:45:50.874+02:00Early Emigrants: Sophie Sager -a woman before her time Part 2<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Sophie's ordeal had made her aware of the lack of legal rights for women and especially single unprotected women. She becan holding pulic lectures advocating for better womens rights first 1849 in Stockholm and later Uppsala and in the following years she visited Malmö,Gothenburg and Copenhagen.<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline;">After her arrival Sophie took lodgings with a shoemakermaster family <b>Dillström</b> in Bollhusgränd in Stockholms Old city. Bollhusgränd was already in the late 18th century known to be a prostitution district. After rows and quarrels with mrs Dillström who had an illigal tavern and wanted Sophie to be at the guests disposal,
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<br />Anna-Karin Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922506904043052675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520709836975950553.post-30949548734865118632016-03-12T07:56:00.001+01:002016-03-12T07:56:52.478+01:00Ship Disasters: Austrias fire September 13, 1858 Part 3<br />
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Austria started burning at about the level of 45 ° 01'N 41 ° 30'W about midway between <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newfoundland_(island)" target="_blank">Newfoundland</a> and the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azores" target="_blank">Azores</a>. the burned out wreck probably drifted for a while before it sank to the bottom (<a href="http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?132285" target="_blank">Austrias wreck site)</a><br />
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Austrias wreck created a stir on both sides of the Atlantic, primarily in the USA and Germany, and newspapers reported extensively about the disaster.<br />
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On 3 November 1858 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_of_Hamburg" target="_blank">The Hamburg city Senate</a> conferred .the <a href="https://archive.org/stream/hamburgischemnz02gaedgoog#page/n166/mode/2up" target="_blank">Hamburgian honorary gold medal</a> to Captain Ernst Renaud of the Maurice and C A Funnemaityrk of the Caterina and honorary medal in silver to 4 other crew members for the rescue of the surviving passengers.<br />
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<b> Charles Rosene jr </b>returned to his mother and siblings in Richmond, Virginia, about 1870 he settled in New York where he worked as an actor .He married at least two times and had seven children. According to the US Federal census in 1900 he was retired and living with his family in Manhattan He died 1911 in New York at an institution for the mentally ill .<br />
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The fate of <b>Charles (Claes) Högqvist</b>, <b>Sven Nilsson</b> and <b>Swen Peterson</b> remains unknown they probably remained in USA.<br />
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<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Christian_Andersen" target="_blank"> H C Andersen</a> deeply mourned <b>Henriette Wulff</b> . She had been one of his closest friends,and she had been like a sister to him. With her death his wish to visit USA vanished since he became scared of the sea voyage . He wrote a<a href="http://www.hcandersen-homepage.dk/?page_id=6479" target="_blank"> poem</a> in her memory in seven stanzas published in the danish newspaper Dagbladet, on October 22, 1858.<br />
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In Åby parish the pastor wrote in the note on <b>Carolina Nilsdotter</b> emigration to America in the margin of the <a href="http://www.genealogi.se/church-records/household-examination-rolls" target="_blank">church examination rolls</a> "perished during voyage to America Sep 13th 1858"<br />
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The news of <b>August Theodor Mankées </b>death reached both his family in Stockholm and the <a href="http://www.illinoisancestors.org/rockisland/rockislandswedes.htm" target="_blank">ba ptists in Rock Island</a>, his two small daughters were send to the family in Stockholm where they grew up. One moved back to Chicago while the other became a clergyman's wife on the island of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gotland" target="_blank">Gotland</a>.<br />
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<b>Carl Johan Holmberg</b>'s gold nugget was taken from his dead body and sent to his sister in Sweden<br />
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<b>Anders Viktor Lindstein</b> remained in the USA a few years after the sinking of the Austria but returned to Sweden. around 1861. He remained unmarried and lived a quiet life .Han worked as inspector at an ironmill but was active in the Swedish <a href="http://www.dotoday.se/en/stockholm/armemuseum/new-years-salute/7855467-a" target="_blank">Sharpshooter movement</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falun" target="_blank">Falun </a>in 1860-thies. He died in 1890 in Falun and was buried in Stora Kopparberg.but by then the disasater of the Austria had slipped into history's oblivion.Anna-Karin Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922506904043052675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520709836975950553.post-66050521581385552912016-03-04T12:43:00.004+01:002016-03-08T10:09:34.125+01:00New prince in the Royal family !<br />
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Crown princess Victoria and Prins Daniel got their second child on March 3rd when the crown princess gave birth to her second child and first son. (her first being 4 year old princess Estelle).<br />
The little boy will be named Oscar Carl Olof and will become duke of Skåne<br />
King Carl Gustaf <a href="http://www.kungahuset.se/royalcourt/royalfamily/latestnews/latestnews/hrhprinceoscarcarlolofdukeofskane.5.274e83ca152f4410091111d.html" target="_blank">announced</a> the happy event to members of governement and the swedish people<br />
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<br /><br />Anna-Karin Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922506904043052675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520709836975950553.post-55815117848098724182016-01-29T09:15:00.002+01:002016-01-30T11:48:58.457+01:00Shipping disasters: Austrias fire 13 September 1858 Part 2<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.8327272727272728; margin-bottom: 6pt; margin-top: 6pt;">
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<br />Anna-Karin Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922506904043052675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520709836975950553.post-6918508712956860102016-01-27T09:17:00.000+01:002016-01-27T09:17:44.612+01:00Shipping disasters: Austrias fire 13 September 1858 Part 1<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamburg_America_Line" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hamburg-America Line</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> had started its passenger traffic in 1847 with sailing ships but in 1857 supplemented it with steamers and purchased four new ships to operate the route from </span><a href="http://english.hamburg.de/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hamburg </span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to New York. In 1855 Hammonia and Borussia entered into service i, and in 1857 followed the sister ships Saxonia and Austria.</span></div>
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vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ft</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and 2,684 </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonnage" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">BRT</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, with three </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mast_(sailing)" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">masts</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> and </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship#Propulsion" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">single screw propeller propulsion</span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #252525; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> The ship was built as a troop transport ship for the </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_India_Company" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">British East India Company</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">. She was, however, an unlucky ship. Already on October 5th 1857, she was hit by a storm in the Bay of Biscay which killed a crew member .It severely damaged the ship which had to sail back to </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Plym</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">outh</span></a><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to undergo extensive repairs. On her second trip, she again encountered a storm both steam engines were badly damaged this time she must also return for repairs in Plymouth In May 1858 was taken over by the Hamburg-America Line and was deployed on the route Hamburg-New York</span></div>
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<br /><br /><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Austria sailed September 1, 1858 from Hamburg on her third trip to New York with about 538 people aboard passengers and crew under command of Captain FA Heydtman three days later she arrived in </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southampton" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="color: #1155cc; font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Southampton</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14.6667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> where additional passangers boarded .In the morning of September 4rd Austria steered out on the Atlantic The ship was estimated to arrive in New York on September 18th. Unfortunately most of those on board were never to arrive to their destination.</span>Anna-Karin Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922506904043052675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520709836975950553.post-67823135771262031742015-12-21T10:15:00.000+01:002015-12-21T10:15:36.003+01:00Swedish Christmas traditions part 1<br />
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-weight: normal;">The annual candlelit </span><a href="%2Ehttps://sweden.se/culture-traditions/lucia/" style="font-weight: normal;" target="_blank">Lucia</a><span style="font-weight: normal;"> procession on 13 December is perhaps one of the more exotic-looking Swedish customs,with girls and boys clad in white full-length gowns singing songs togeher.Among the youngest,anyone can be Lucia :as the children get older competition will harden.</span></span><span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; line-height: 27.54px;">The Lucia celebrations also include ginger snaps and sweet, </span><a href="https://sweden.se/culture-traditions/saffransbullar-and-pepparkakor/" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00aae9; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 27.54px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Lussekatter">saffron-flavoured buns <span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">(lussekatter)</span></a><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; line-height: 27.54px;"> shaped like curled-up cats and with raisin eyes. You eat them with </span><a href="https://sweden.se/culture-traditions/snaps-and-glogg/" style="border-image-outset: initial; border-image-repeat: initial; border-image-slice: initial; border-image-source: initial; border-image-width: initial; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #00aae9; font-stretch: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 27.54px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Glögg"><span style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">glögg</span> </a><span style="color: #222222; font-weight: normal; line-height: 27.54px;">or coffee. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Helvetica Neue, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #222222; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.9px;">The Lucia tradition can be traced back both to St Lucia of Syracuse, a martyr who died in 304, and to the Swedish legend of Lucia as Adam’s first wife. It is said that she consorted with the Devil and that her children were invisible infernals. Thus the name may be associated with both </span><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.9px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">lux</span><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #222222; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.9px;"> (light) and Lucifer (Satan), and its origins are difficult to determine. The present custom appears to be a blend of traditions. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #222222; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.9px;">The first recorded appearance of a white-clad Lucia in Sweden was in a country house in 1764. The custom did not become universally popular in Swedish society until the 1900s, when schools and local associations in particular began promoting it. The old </span><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.9px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">lussegubbar</span><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #222222; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.9px;">custom virtually disappeared with urban migration, and white-clad Lucias with their singing processions were considered a more acceptable, controlled form of celebration than the youthful carousals of the past. Stockholm proclaimed its first Lucia in 1927. The custom whereby Lucia serves coffee and buns (</span><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-stretch: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.9px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">lussekatter</span><span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #222222; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.9px;">) dates back to the 1880s, although the buns were around long before that.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: whitesmoke; color: #222222; font-weight: normal; line-height: 16.9px;">This Lucia from 1875 on apicture found at the Kulturen museum in Lund clearly shows a male Lucia. A student named </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18.5714px;">Johan Albert Heribert Brag 1856-1926 (later newspaper editor).</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18.5714px;">Here is a link to a <a href="http://www.swedishfood.com/mmp_upgrade/index.php/swedish-food-recipes-biscuits-cakes/132-saffron-buns" target="_blank">recipe</a> of Saffron buns often served at Lucia.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18.5714px;">In 2012 the Lucia showed in TV was a black girl which caused a minor uproar since the Lucia has traditionally been supposed to be blond. so some people thought it unsuitable with a darkskinned Lucia since she is supposed to be a bringer of light and joy .. And swedish TV recieved a lot of racist comments.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 18.5714px;"><br />Since nobody knows the exact skin and hair coulour of St Lucia of Syracuse I think a darkskinned Lucia is OK .However St Lucia of Sicily was clearly female.</span></div>
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Anna-Karin Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922506904043052675noreply@blogger.com0Växjö, Sverige56.8790044 14.80585220000000456.7402229 14.483128700000004 57.0177859 15.128575700000004tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520709836975950553.post-3231745903352172172015-06-18T09:02:00.000+02:002015-06-18T09:02:21.140+02:00Royal Wedding<br />
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On June 13 th prince Carl Philip of Sweden and his fiancé Sofia Hellqvist got married in the Royal Chapel at the Royal Castle in Stockholm.<br />
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You can read more about the Wedding and the Happy couple at the Website of the <a href="http://www.kungahuset.se/royalcourt/specialevents/specialevents/theprincewedding/thewedding.4.36257d1d14c9d87d3cd6a15.html" target="_blank">Royal Court</a><br />
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Just 3 days later June 16th the prince sister princess Madeleine gave birth to her and her husband Chis O'Neill:s second child a little boy named <a href="http://www.kungahuset.se/royalcourt/royalfamily/latestnews/latestnews/hrhprincenicolaspaulgustafdukeofangermanland.5.39de70d114e0193df8091.html" target="_blank">Nicolas Paul Gustaf </a><br />
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<br />Anna-Karin Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922506904043052675noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520709836975950553.post-12772875737749753962014-12-01T12:54:00.000+01:002014-12-01T12:54:09.117+01:00Minnesota Day 17 August 2014 <span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" tabindex="-1"> </span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" tabindex="-1"><span class="hps">This</span> <span class="hps">year's</span> <span class="hps">Minnesota</span> <span class="hps">day</span> <span class="hps">celebration</span> <span class="hps">on August 17</span> <span class="hps">took place</span> <span class="hps">as usual in</span> <span class="hps">Ljuder Church</span> near <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lessebo_Municipality" target="_blank">Lessebo</a> <span class="hps">in</span> an area with tradition of emigrating to Minnesota and also home to the Author <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vilhelm_Moberg" target="_blank">Vilhelm Moberg</a><span class="hps">.</span> <span class="hps">According to tradition,</span> <span class="hps">The Swedish -American of the Year was presented</span> <span class="hps">by</span> <span class="hps">the</span> <span class="hps">Vasa Order of</span> <span class="hps">America</span> <span class="hps">Swedish</span> <span class="hps">lodges</span>. <span class="hps">The 2014</span> <span class="hps">Swedish</span>-American <span class="hps">is</span> the <span class="hps">renowned</span> <span class="hps">economist</span> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Fred_Bergsten" target="_blank"><span class="hps">C. Fred</span> </a><span class="hps"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Fred_Bergsten" target="_blank">Bergsten</a>,</span> <span class="hps">until</span> <span class="hps">recently</span> <span class="hps">director of</span> <span class="hps">the <a href="http://www.piie.com/staff/author_bio.cfm?author_id=33" target="_blank">Peterson Institute</a></span><a href="http://www.piie.com/staff/author_bio.cfm?author_id=33" target="_blank"> <span class="hps">for International Economics</span></a> <span class="hps">in</span> <span class="hps">Washington, DC.</span><br /> <span class="hps">Fred</span> <span class="hps">Bergsten</span> <span class="hps">thanked</span> <span class="hps">for</span> <span class="hps">the award</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">spoke of</span> <span class="hps">his contacts</span> <span class="hps">with</span> <span class="hps">Sweden</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">its</span> <span class="hps">Swedish</span> <span class="hps">heritage</span> <span class="hps">from</span> <span class="hps">his grandfather's</span> <span class="hps">homestead</span> <span class="hps">in Närke.</span> <br /><span class="hps">The picture below shows</span> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._Fred_Bergsten" target="_blank"><span class="hps">C. Fred</span> <span class="hps">Bergsten</span></a> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">the Vasa Order of</span> <span class="hps">America</span> <span class="hps">Swedish</span> <span class="hps">Representative Catherine</span> <span class="hps">Bringselius</span>-Nilsson <span class="hps">rivalry between</span> <span class="hps">them</span> <span class="hps">list the</span> <span class="hps">previous</span> <span class="hps">year's</span> <span class="hps">year's</span> <span class="hps">Swedish</span>-Americans. <br /><br /> </span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en" tabindex="-1"><br /><br /><span class="hps">This year's</span> <span class="hps">speaker was</span> <a href="http://www.engelska.uu.se/Personal/Dag_Blanck/" target="_blank"><span class="hps">Dag</span> <span class="hps">Blanck</span></a> <span class="hps">manage <a href="http://www.augustana.edu/general-information/swenson-center-/about-us" target="_blank">The</a></span><a href="http://www.augustana.edu/general-information/swenson-center-/about-us" target="_blank"> <span class="hps">Swenson</span> <span class="hps">Center</span></a> <span class="hps">at</span> <a href="http://www.augustana.edu/" target="_blank"><span class="hps">Augustana College</span></a>, <br /><span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">the</span> <span class="hps">Swedish</span> <span class="hps">Institute for North American</span> <span class="hps">Studies at the</span> <span class="hps">University of Uppsala</span> <span class="hps">.He</span> <span class="hps">spoke of</span> <span class="hps">Swedish</span><span class="">-Americans and</span> <span class="hps">the construction of</span> <span class="hps">a</span> <span class="hps">Swedish</span><span class="atn">-</span>American <span class="hps">identity</span> <span class="hps">in the United States</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">how it has changed</span> <span class="hps">through time.</span> <span class="hps">He</span> <span class="hps">has</span>. <span class="hps">written</span> <span class="hps">a</span> <span class="hps">book on the subject</span> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/The-Creation-Ethnic-Identity-Augustana/dp/0809327155" target="_blank"><span class="hps">The Creation</span> <span class="hps">of an</span> <span class="hps">Ethnic</span> <span class="hps">Identity</span>. <span class="hps">Being</span> <span class="hps">Swedish</span> <span class="hps">American in</span> <span class="hps">the</span> <span class="hps">Augustana</span> <span class="hps">Synod</span>, <span class="hps">1860-1917</span></a>. <br /><span class="hps">The picture below shows</span> <span class="hps">Dag</span> <span class="hps">Blanck</span> <span class="hps">conversing</span> <span class="hps">with</span> <span class="hps">C</span> <span class="hps">Fred</span> <span class="hps">Bergsten.</span> <br /><br /> </span><br />
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<br /><span class="hps">.</span> <br /><span class="hps">Even</span> <span class="hps">Swedish</span> <span class="hps">Emigrant Institute</span> <span class="hps">former chief</span> <span class="hps">Ulf</span> <span class="hps">Beijbom</span> <span class="hps">attended</span> <span class="hps">launching</span> <span class="hps">his memoirs</span> <br /><span class="hps">Oförglömligt (Unforgettable</span>) <span class="hps">which provides many</span> <span class="hps">interesting insights into</span> <span class="hps">his activities</span> <span class="hps">as</span> <span class="hps">head of</span> <span class="hps">the Emigrant Institute</span>, <span class="hps">his</span> <span class="hps">research</span> <span class="hps">and travel.</span></span><br />
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<span class="hps">Halmstad<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Arena</span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halmstad">Halmstad</a> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in Halland<br />
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<span class="hps">of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RMS_Titanic" target="_blank">Titanic</a></span> <span class="hps">such as </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><span class="hps">models</span> <span class="hps">of the ships</span> <span class="hps">cabins</span> <span class="hps">and
some</span> <span class="hps">original items</span> <span class="hps">from the</span>
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<span class="hps">The exhibition is a</span> <span class="hps">traveling exhibition
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around</span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the world <span class="hps">to
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<span class="hps">Especially</span> <span class="hps">interesting in</span> <span class="hps">the Swedish version of</span> <span class="hps">the show in</span> <span class="hps">Halmstad is</span> <span class="hps">the focus on</span> <span class="hps">the</span> <span class="hps">Swedish</span> <span class="hps">passengers</span>
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<span class="hps">Americans</span> <span class="hps">traveled</span> <span class="hps">with</span> <span class="hps">Titanic 89</span> <span class="hps">of</span>
<span class="hps">them</span> <span class="hps">were killed</span> <span class="hps">and
34</span> <span class="hps">survived</span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My <a href="http://anna-karinsgenealogicalblog.blogspot.se/2012/04/swedes-and-scandinavians-on-titanic-1.html">blogpost</a>
from 2012 about Titanic and its Scandinavian passengers<br />
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<span class="hps">Some</span> <span class="hps">Swedish</span> <span class="hps">passengers</span>
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span class="hps">A good book in english about the Swedish passengers on the Titanic:</span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"><span class="hps"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Not-My-Time-Die-Titanic/dp/0967217687" target="_blank">Not my time to die:Titanic and the Swedes on Board </a> by Lilly Setterdahl</span></span><br />
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<span class="hps"><a href="http://www.encyclopedia-titanica.org/">Encyclopedia Titanica</a></span>
<span class="hps">(in English</span> <span class="hps">one of the most</span> <span class="hps">complete</span> <span class="hps">sites</span> <span class="hps">about </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="hps">the Titanic</span>)</span><br />
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Anna-Karin Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922506904043052675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520709836975950553.post-27856061615267906652014-07-04T16:36:00.001+02:002014-07-04T16:44:40.265+02:00Växjö and Småland in Wold War 1 part 2 <span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">World War</span> 1 <span class="hps">Växjö</span> <span class="hps">and Småland</span><span class="">, part 2</span> <br /><br /><b><span class="hps">A</span> man from <span class="hps">Kristdala </span> <span class="hps">in</span> <span class="hps">the U.S. Army</span></b> <br /><br /><span class="hps">Although</span> <span class="hps">Sweden</span> <span class="hps">by</span> <span class="hps">its</span> <span class="hps">neutrality</span> <span class="hps">never</span> <span class="hps">became</span> <span class="hps">directly</span> <span class="hps">involved</span> <span class="hps">in the fighting in</span> <span class="hps">the First World War</span> <span class="hps">was still</span> <span class="hps">Swedes</span> <span class="hps">who fought in</span> <span class="hps">the war.</span> <span class="hps">The largest group</span> <span class="hps">was probably</span> <span class="hps">the</span> <span class="hps">Swedish</span> <span class="hps">emigrants who</span> <span class="hps">emigrated to</span> <span class="hps">the United States and</span> <span class="hps">that more or</span> <span class="hps">less voluntarily</span> <span class="hps">joined the</span> <span class="hps">U.S. Army</span>. <br /><br /><span class="hps">Among them</span> <span class="hps">was</span> <span class="hps">Carl</span> <span class="hps">Edward</span> <span class="hps">Carlsson</span> <span class="hps">1891-1985</span> <span class="hps">from</span> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kristdala"><span class="hps">Kristdala</span> </a><span class="hps">in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalmar_County">Kalmar County</a>.</span> <span class="hps">Carl</span> <span class="hps">Edward</span> <br /><span class="hps">emigrated in</span> <span class="hps">1912 to</span> <span class="hps">America where he</span> <span class="hps">settled in</span> <span class="hps">the vicinity of</span> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oneida,_Illinois"><span class="hps">Oneida</span></a>, Illinois. <br /><span class="hps">In April</span> <span class="hps">1917</span> <span class="hps">the United States</span> <span class="hps">declared war on Germany</span>, and in December <span class="hps">against</span> <span class="hps">Austria</span><span class="atn">-</span><span class="">Hungary.</span> <br /><span class="hps">In</span> <span class="hps">June 1917</span> <span class="hps"></span> <span class="hps">Carl</span> <span class="hps">Edward</span> <span class="hps">was drafted along with</span> <span class="hps">many other young</span> <span class="hps">men.Just </span> <span class="hps">before</span> <br /><span class="hps">midsummer</span> <span class="hps">1918</span><span class="">, they were </span>sent <span class="hps">to </span> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Grant_%28Illinois%29" target="_blank"><span class="hps">Camp</span> <span class="hps">Grant</span></a> <span class="hps">near</span> <span class="hps"><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rockford,_Illinois" target="_blank">Rockford</a>,</span> <span class="hps">Illinois.</span> <br /><span class="hps">The new</span> <span class="hps">Military Service Act</span> <span class="hps">in the U.S.</span> <span class="hps">in 1917</span> <span class="hps">obliged</span> <span class="hps">even those</span> <span class="hps">who have begun</span> <span class="hps">the application process</span> <span class="hps">to</span> <span class="hps">become a citizen</span> <span class="hps">to stand</span> <span class="hps">at </span> <span class="hps">the army's</span> <span class="hps">disposal.</span> <span class="hps">Carl</span> <span class="hps">Edward</span> <span class="hps">became a </span> <span class="hps">U.S. citizen</span> <span class="hps">Aug. 1, 1918</span> <span class="hps">while</span> <span class="hps">at Camp</span> <span class="hps">Grant.</span> <span class="hps">Not everyone</span> <span class="hps">in Rock</span>f<span class="hps">ord's</span> <span class="hps">neighborhood</span> <span class="hps">wanted to </span><span class="hps">join the army in</span> <span class="hps">June 1917</span> <span class="hps"></span><span class="hps">120</span> <span class="hps">Swedes</span> <span class="hps">were arrested in Rockford</span> <span class="hps">for</span> <span class="hps">conscientious objection</span>. <br /><span class="hps">Carl</span> <span class="hps">Edward</span>s company were <span class="hps"> after</span> <span class="hps">a short time training </span><span class="hps"> went</span> <span class="hps">to</span> <span class="hps">New York and</span> <span class="hps">then on to</span> <span class="hps">Liverpool and</span> <span class="hps">from</span> <span class="hps">England</span> <span class="hps">by boat to</span> <span class="hps">Bordaux</span> <span class="hps">to</span> <span class="hps">join the rest</span> <span class="hps">of</span> <span class="hps">the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Expeditionary_Forces" target="_blank">American</a></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Expeditionary_Forces" target="_blank"> Expeditionary Force In France</a><br /><span class="hps">Parts of</span> <span class="hps">Carl Edwards</span> <span class="hps">field equipment</span> <span class="hps">helmet,</span> <span class="hps">canteen</span>, <span class="hps">knapsack</span>, etc. <br /><br /> </span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><br /><br /><br /><span class="hps">The trip</span> <span class="hps">to</span> <span class="hps">the front in France </span> <span class="hps">was undertaken</span> <span class="hps">in</span> <span class="hps">cattle cars</span>. Carl Edwards <span class="hps">Company</span>were quartered <span class="hps">in</span> <span class="hps">a farmhouse</span> <span class="hps">soon the </span> <span class="hps">the Spanish flu broke </span> <span class="hps">out</span> <span class="hps">and most of the</span> <span class="hps">men fell ill.Carl</span> <span class="hps">Edward and</span> <span class="hps">the few</span> <span class="hps">other healthy</span> <span class="hps">soldiers</span> <span class="hps">escaped</span> <span class="hps">the disease but</span> <span class="hps">were sent</span> <span class="hps">to the front to</span> <span class="hps">fill in the</span> <span class="hps">gaps</span> <span class="hps">after</span> <span class="hps">the armys losses .The fighting </span> <span class="hps">at the front was</span> <span class="hps">hard and </span> <span class="hps">after a week</span>, there were <span class="hps">only</span> <span class="hps">76</span> <span class="hps">men </span> <span class="hps">of 265</span> left <span class="hps">in</span> <span class="hps">the</span> <span class="hps">company</span> <span class="hps">the rest</span> <span class="hps">were dead</span> <span class="hps">or</span> <span class="hps">wounded.</span> <span class="hps">Overall </span> <span class="hps">Carl</span> <span class="hps">Edward</span> spend 4 times at the front the total days spend fighting was 28 <span class="hps">.</span> <span class="hps">He served</span> <span class="hps">mainly</span> <span class="hps">in the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28th_Infantry_Division_%28United_States%29" target="_blank">28th</a></span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28th_Infantry_Division_%28United_States%29" target="_blank"> <span class="hps">Infantry</span> <span class="hps">Division</span></a>. <br /><span class="hps">After</span> <span class="hps">the hard</span> <span class="hps">battles</span> <span class="hps"></span> <span class="hps">General</span> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_J._Pershing" target="_blank"><span class="hps">Pershing</span> </a>called the <span class="hps">division</span> <span class="hps">for</span> <span class="hps">his</span> <span class="hps">"Iron</span> <span class="hps">Division</span>" . <br /><span class="hps">Papers relating</span> <span class="hps">Carl Edwards</span> <span class="hps">time</span> <span class="hps">in the field and</span> <span class="hps">pictures of him</span> <span class="hps">in uniform.</span></span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps"> </span> <br /><br /><br /><span class="hps">After</span> <span class="hps">the Armistice in </span> <span class="hps">November 11th 1918</span> <span class="hps">the </span> <span class="hps">U.S. troops</span> <span class="hps">to stay</span>ed <span class="hps">another 6</span> <span class="hps">months in France</span> <span class="hps">In n</span> <span class="hps">March 1919</span> Carl Edward and his company was <span class="hps">located</span> <span class="hps">in</span> <span class="hps">Bagneux</span>. The <span class="hps">demobilization</span> <span class="hps">took place</span> <span class="hps">outside Le</span> <span class="hps">Mans and</span> on <span class="hps">May 1th </span> <span class="hps">the return journey</span> <span class="hps">by boat</span> <span class="hps">to Philadelphia began </span>, The final <span class="hps">demobilization</span>. <span class="hps">took place</span> <span class="hps">May 17</span> <span class="hps">at <a href="http://www.gjenvick.com/Military/ArmyArchives/TrainingCenters/CampDix/index.html#axzz36VUateZV" target="_blank">Camp</a></span><a href="http://www.gjenvick.com/Military/ArmyArchives/TrainingCenters/CampDix/index.html#axzz36VUateZV" target="_blank"> <span class="hps">Dix</span></a>, <span class="hps">New Jersey</span> <br /><span class="hps">Below</span> <span class="hps">Carl</span> <span class="hps">Edward and</span> <span class="hps">his</span> <span class="hps">comrades in the</span> <span class="hps">28th </span> <span class="hps">Infantry</span> <span class="hps">Division</span> <span class="hps">in</span> <span class="hps">Bagneux</span> <span class="hps">in March 1919</span> </span><br />
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<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps"></span><br /><br /><span class="hps">After his return from the war Carl Edward decided to visit his family in Sweden His passport application </span> <span class="hps">is</span> <span class="hps">dated</span> <span class="hps">October 8th 1919</span>. <span class="hps">December </span>6th he sailed from New York <span class="hps"></span><span class="hps"> to</span> <span class="hps">Sweden</span>. <br /><span class="hps">He</span><span class="hps"> later returned to U.S A and</span> <span class="hps">stayed there</span> <span class="hps">until the early 1930 </span>thies <span class="hps"></span> <span class="hps">when he</span> <span class="hps">definitely</span> <span class="hps">returned to</span> <span class="hps">Sweden</span>, where he <span class="hps">married and had</span> <span class="hps">two</span> <span class="hps">daughters</span>, He <span class="hps">died</span> <span class="hps">in 1985</span>.<span class="hps">Towards the end</span> <span class="hps">of his life</span> <span class="hps">he wrote</span> <span class="hps">down his</span> <span class="hps">experiences in t</span><span class="hps"> World War 1.</span></span><br />
<span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps"> </span></span><span class="" id="result_box" lang="en"><span class="hps">Carl Edwards</span> <span class="hps">daughters</span> <span class="hps">have</span> put their <span class="hps"> father's</span> <span class="hps">belongings</span> <span class="hps">to</span> Kulturparken <span class="hps">Småland</span> s disposal <span class="hps"> for the </span> <span class="hps">exhibition.</span> <span class="hps">The picture below </span>shows Carl Edward Carlsons <span class="hps">daughters</span> <span class="hps">Irene</span> <span class="hps">Enoksson</span> <span class="hps">and Ingrid</span> <span class="hps">Kronvall</span> <span class="hps">along with</span> <span class="hps">the CEO of Kulturparken Småland Lennart</span> <span class="hps">Johansson.</span></span><br />
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<span class="hps"><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;">This
year marks</span></span><span lang="EN" style="mso-ansi-language: EN;"> <span class="hps">100 year Anniversary <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>since</span>
<span class="hps">Archduke</span> <span class="hps">Franz</span> <span class="hps">Ferdinand</span>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of Austria -Hungary and his wife<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>were <span class="hps">assassinated</span> <span class="hps">in Sarajevo.</span> <span class="hps">An event that</span> <span class="hps">marked the beginning of</span> <span class="hps">the worst</span> <span class="hps">catastrophe that</span> <span class="hps">humanity</span> <span class="hps">had yet seen</span> <span class="hps">-</span> <span class="hps"> World War 1</span>. <span class="hps">For this reason</span>, the <a href="http://www.kulturparkensmaland.se/1.0.1.0/108/2/">Kulturparken Småland (the Kronoberg county Museum) </a><span class="hps">runs an </span> <span class="hps">exibition about the the</span> <span class="hps">outbreak of the war</span> <span class="hps">and how it directly</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">indirectly</span>
<span class="hps">affected the population </span> <span class="hps">in</span> <span class="hps"><a href="http://www.vaxjo.se/">Växjö</a>,</span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kronoberg_County"><span class="hps">KronobergCounty</span></a> <span class="hps">by</span> <span class="hps">the food shortages and</span>
<span class="hps">high prizes on food.</span><br />
<span class="hps">The exhibition runs until</span> <span class="hps">November <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>11</span>th.<br />
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<span class="hps">The Outbreak of the war reported</span> <span class="hps">in</span>
<span class="hps">the somewhat</span>-German friendly <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="hps">local newspaper</span> <br />
<a href="http://www.smp.se/"><span class="hps">Smålandsposten</span></a>.</span></div>
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<span class="hps">Sweden</span>, together with <span class="hps">the other Nordic
countries</span> <span class="hps">declared themselves</span> <span class="hps">neutral</span>.
<span class="hps">The Home Guard</span><br />
<span class="hps">was mobilized</span> <span class="hps">shortly after</span> <span class="hps">the outbreak of war </span> <span class="hps">conscript</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">veteran reserve</span> <span class="hps">set.</span>
<span class="hps">Their </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="hps">equipment</span> <br />
<span class="hps">was</span> <span class="hps">apparently</span> <span class="hps">not</span>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of <span class="hps">the</span> <span class="hps">latest model.</span> <span class="hps">Triangular</span> <span class="hps">felt hats</span> <span class="hps">l</span> <span class="hps">had
probably been</span> <br />
<span class="hps">poor protection</span> <span class="hps">against bullets</span> <span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">grenades</span> <span class="hps">and <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the quality of the weapons </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="hps">also left a</span> <span class="hps">lot to be desired</span>. </span></div>
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<span class="hps">In Autumn of 1914</span> <span class="hps">the swedish municipalities
were given </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="hps">the
right to establish Foad Boards<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to regulate the distibution of food </span>. <span class="hps">In Växjö</span> <span class="hps">one was established in December</span> <span class="hps">1914.</span> <span class="hps">The first meeting</span> <span class="hps">was held</span> <span class="hps">on December 21</span> <span class="hps">In</span> <span class="hps">February
1916</span> <span class="hps"></span><span class="hps"></span> <span class="hps">The last</span> <span class="hps">meeting</span> <span class="hps">was
held</span> <span class="hps">in 1921.</span> <span class="hps">Its </span>
<span class="hps">task was to</span> <span class="hps">obtain</span> <span class="hps">the foods</span> <span class="hps">needed for</span> <span class="hps">municipal</span>
<span class="hps">supply</span> <span class="hps">being stored</span> <span class="hps">and distributed properly </span>, and to <span class="hps">ensure that</span> <span class="hps">current regulations</span> <span class="hps"></span> <span class="hps">for</span> food <span class="hps">rationing</span> were <span class="hps">followed</span>.
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<span class="hps">Below</span> <span class="hps">a Record book <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>from the <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>Vaxjo</span> <span class="hps">Food</span> <span class="hps">board from</span> <span class="hps">1917.</span></span></div>
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<span class="hps">Despite</span> <span class="hps">rationing</span> <span class="hps">there were</span> <span class="hps">food shortages</span> <span class="hps">and food</span> <span class="hps">speculation</span> <span class="hps">so
called "</span>profiteering",a <span class="hps">particularly difficult</span>
<span class="hps">situation was</span> in the <span class="hps">winter of</span> <span class="hps">1916-1917</span>. <span class="hps">In connection with</span> <span class="hps">the Russian</span> <span class="hps">February <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Revolution</span> <span class="hps">in March
1917</span> <span class="hps">there<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>were demonstration</span>s
<span class="hps">and</span> <span class="hps">even</span> <span class="hps">food
riots</span> <span class="hps">in several parts of</span> <span class="hps">the
country.</span> <span class="hps">In Växjö</span> <span class="hps"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span></span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><span class="hps">sometimes women</span> <span class="hps">at the</span> <span class="hps">entrance
to town</span> <span class="hps">and stopped</span> <span class="hps"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the farmers carts</span> <span class="hps">with
groceries and</span> <span class="hps">followed them</span> <span class="hps">into
the city</span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="hps">to</span>
<span class="hps">make sure they</span> <span class="hps">were sold to the</span> <span class="hps">city's population.</span> In <span class="hps">April 23<sup>rd</sup>
1917 </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="hps">The workers</span>
<span class="hps">held a meeting</span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="hps">in the</span> <span class="hps">People's House</span> <span class="hps">then</span>
<span class="hps">about 1,000</span> <span class="hps">people</span> <span class="hps">marched <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to</span> <span class="hps">the Main Square</span> <span class="hps">where</span> <span class="hps">engineer</span>
<span class="hps">Ernst</span> <span class="hps">Johansson</span> <span class="hps">read
out</span> <span class="hps">the</span> <span class="hps">resolution</span>the meeting had <span class="hps">adopted</span> <span class="hps">for</span>
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the <span class="hps">mayor</span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>of Växjö <span class="hps">Bergendahl</span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="hps">who listened<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to their demands </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span>the People <span class="hps">then</span> <span class="hps">sang</span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the song <span class="hps">"</span>The Sons
of Labour” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="hps">after which</span>
they <span class="hps">cheered</span> <span class="hps">for</span> <span class="hps">the
mayor.</span> <br />
<span class="hps">Here</span> <span class="hps">a banner</span> <span class="hps">probably</span>
<span class="hps">used by</span> <span class="hps">the demonstrator</span> <span class="hps">tion</span> <span class="hps">April 23, 1917</span>. The texts on it
says “More Bread End food speculation”.<br />
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<span class="hps">On April 22 1917 ,</span> <span class="hps">had</span> <span class="hps">some</span> <span class="hps">of the conscripts of </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the <span class="hps">Kronoberg</span> <span class="hps">regiments </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="hps">twelfth</span> <span class="hps">company</span> <span class="hps">refused
to</span> <span class="hps">show up</span> <span class="hps">at a</span> <span class="hps">church service</span> <span class="hps"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Ten </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="hps">of the </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="hps">conscripts</span> <span class="hps">were</span> <span class="hps">then</span> <span class="hps">arrested and
put into custody </span>. <span class="hps">Later that day</span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="hps">conscripts</span> <span class="hps">and some</span> <span class="hps">members of the public</span> <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>went <span class="hps">to the the
Bäckaslövs<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>school <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>then used as military camp for Conscripts </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span class="hps">where the</span> <span class="hps">company</span> <span class="hps">was located</span> <span class="hps">to
get</span> <span class="hps">the arrested</span> <span class="hps">free</span>. <span class="hps">Colonel</span> <span class="hps">Cavallin</span> <span class="hps">ordered</span>
the <span class="hps">conscripts</span> <span class="hps">to return</span> <span class="hps">to the barracks the crowd</span> <span class="hps">dispersed</span> <span class="hps">only after</span> <span class="hps">"</span>military <span class="hps">pressure</span>" had been used. </span></div>
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<a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EsT1Nkhfllk/U7agf31ggfI/AAAAAAAAAS4/HulFlF2KzkU/s1600/IMG_3885webb.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EsT1Nkhfllk/U7agf31ggfI/AAAAAAAAAS4/HulFlF2KzkU/s1600/IMG_3885webb.jpg" height="181" width="320" /></a>Anna-Karin Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922506904043052675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520709836975950553.post-35318076059522956052012-04-16T12:41:00.001+02:002012-04-23T23:53:40.141+02:00Swedes and scandinavians on the Titanic 1<br />
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Just a few days ago it was 100 years since the sinking of Titanic<br />
Of the passagers several were from Scandinavia.<br />
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Swedes and Swedish -Americans 123<br />
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Saved 34<br />
Perished 89<br />
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Danes and Danish-Americans 14<br />
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Saved 2<br />
Perished 11<br />
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Finnish and Finnish- Americans 63<br />
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Saved 20<br />
Perished 43<br />
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Norwegians and Noregian-Americans 31<br />
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Saved 10<br />
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Perished 21 <br />
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In all 231 Scandinavians on the ship only 66 survived<br />
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Around 28% saved. And 72 % lost<br />
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Most of the scandinavians were emigrants travelling in second and sterage class.<br />
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They were around 17.6 % of Titanics around 1310 passagers<br />
and only 13,3 of its saved passagers. Only one of Titanics crew were<br />
Scandinavian ( a Dane) and he went down the ship.<br />
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Do any of My readers have any connections to Titanic and its passagers<br />
Or do you want to hear more about the scandinavians on Titanic.<br />
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Sources for this post: Titanic. By Claes-Göran Wetterholm 1999 (in Swedish)<br />
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- Posted using BlogPress from my iPadAnna-Karin Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922506904043052675noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520709836975950553.post-33660440170303571782011-12-03T12:27:00.009+01:002011-12-03T15:10:08.492+01:00The most Dangerous animal in Sweden ! The Gloso (the glowing Sow) ;);)<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3w10pZEkAHA/TtoNdKB1OtI/AAAAAAAAARM/qQr2zLWJYJE/s1600/IMG_2126.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-3w10pZEkAHA/TtoNdKB1OtI/AAAAAAAAARM/qQr2zLWJYJE/s320/IMG_2126.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5681868674440706770" border="0" /></a><br />Swedish folklore has many strange beings. one of them is the feared Gloso.<br />A Terrible sow with burning red eyes and a razorsharp back. She is believed to reside near cemeteries or cross roads.<br />She usually tries to run between peoples legs thus dividing or<span style=""> scratching them up </span> completely. Nowadays she is not seen that often but since there seem to be so many people with split personalities she must still be around.<br /><br />At the yearly Christmas Fair at the <a href="http://www.kulturparkensmaland.se/1/1.0.1.0/13/1/">Smalands Museum</a> in <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V%C3%A4xj%C3%B6">Växjö</a> this year a little Gloso piglet was shown.<br /><br /><br />Historian Håkan Nordmark acted as its keeper<br />apparently the little beast has taken a liking to him.<a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uoIl0rtdoYE/TtoOO15LyaI/AAAAAAAAARY/0evkXUMSWs8/s1600/IMG_2125.JPG"><img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-uoIl0rtdoYE/TtoOO15LyaI/AAAAAAAAARY/0evkXUMSWs8/s320/IMG_2125.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5681869528029186466" border="0" /></a><br />The little animal seemed calm when I saw it but who knows<br />what will become of it when it becomes bigger !<br /><br />The little gloso was feed by giving it decorated swedish ginger breads eagerly decorated by the visitors to the<br />Christmas Fair. In the future the inhabitants of Växjö<br />obviously have to keep their legs crossed ! ;)<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OOZ4RhEulk4/TtoP4nvMDmI/AAAAAAAAARk/ZfuRKIsmNVg/s1600/IMG_2128.JPG"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-OOZ4RhEulk4/TtoP4nvMDmI/AAAAAAAAARk/ZfuRKIsmNVg/s320/IMG_2128.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5681871345295298146" border="0" /></a>Anna-Karin Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922506904043052675noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4520709836975950553.post-59892158915721857232011-08-27T00:59:00.002+02:002011-12-03T12:27:29.055+01:00Genealogy Days in Norrköping 26-28 August 2011This years <a href="http://www.sfd2011.se/">Genealogy Days</a> the yearly conference of the <a href="http://www.genealogi.se/roots/">Swedish Federation of Genealogy societies</a> took place in Norrköping in the province of <a href="http://www.ostergotland.info/Default.aspx?m=26086">Östergötland</a>.Anna-Karin Shttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12922506904043052675noreply@blogger.com0