First post in Anna-Karins Genealogical podcast YouTube channel

I have uploaded the first little film in Anna-Karins Genealogical Podcasts YouTube channel.
it is a little film about the Swedish actress Emilie Högqvist 1812-1846. she was a popular actress in the 1830thies and 1840thies .One can almost say that she was a 19th century swedish eqvivalen of Marilyn Monroe. since she was for time mistress to king Oscar I (before he became king).
She was a contemporary of the famous swedish singer Jenny Lind.

Genealogy Days in Örebro Aug 27-29 1

At last I have arrived in Örebro for this years Genealogy Days.
Örebro is an old town founded in medialval times.
One of its main attractions is the old castle in the center of the city








The Genealogy Days (the yearly conference for the Swedish Federation of Genealogical Societies) was held inthe new
Conference center Conventum.
Already around 9.30 A lot of people were queing
to by their admission ticket only aon Aug 28 around 3000-4000 tickets were sold.









Around 200 different exibitors had their booths
there were different genealogical Societies.Archives, and companies selling or providing services to genealogists and local historiians as well as authors selling their books
In the background to the left is the booth of Stor Stockholms Genealogiska Förening (The Genealogical socoety of the greater Stockholm area)

New Episodes of Anna-Karins Genealogical Podcast

I have at last published two episodes of my podcast Anna-Karins Genealogical Podcast
with interviews I made at last years Genealogy Days in Falköping.
Among the Interviews are with Ted Rosvall,representatives from DIS-Norge, Genline, Arkivdigital
Sweden-American Center and more.
Today I am of to this years Genealogy Days in Örebro

Anna-Karin in Chicago 2 Mount Olive cemetery

Today I visited some Chicago cemeteries among them
Mount Olive cemetery in Chicago .
It is a non denominational cemetery and it was founded 1886 .








Several Swedish emigrants are buried at the cemetery among them my distant relative on my maternal grandfathers side Lotta Gustafsdotter 1850-1929
married to Per Gustaf Svensson Sundquist In the USA the family called themself Swanson They emigrated in the 1890thies from Sandhult in the province of Västergötland to Chicago.
Lotta is buried in the same grave as her children
Jenny Swanson Jacobsen 1879-1901 and Arvid O Swanson 1886-1963.
Here in Chicago I am staying with some of Lottas descdendants the Bredemann family.

On the cemetery are many graves of swedish emigrants and their descendants. Among famillies I have researched I found the graves of relatives to My uncle Eric (Larsson) Lago (my maternal aunt Karins husband) .Several of his relatives emigrated in 1879thies from Getinge in the province of Halland to Chicago.Among this relatives were Julius Swenson (or Swanson) 1843- and his wife Josephine Nelson (Nilson?)1859-1929. they met in Chicago and had several children.Julius and Josephine are buried in a plot at the cemetery according to cemetery records but no stone are preserved.
However two of their daughters are buried there as well as one grandaughter.Their oldest daughter Hulda J( Swenson) Farrell 1883-1923 and her husband Edward J Farrell 1884-1941 is buried in the same lot as well as the younger daughter Alice S (Swenson) Weslar 1885-1957 and her daughter Gladys (Weslar) Cooksey 1906-1954

Ancestry buying Genline

Ancestry.com is buying the swedish family history website Genline

I hope this will be a good development for both Ancestry and genline customers

Ancestry customers will get more access to swedish materials and Genline gustomers hopefully will get access to Ancestrys was holding of USA andCanadian and other records.

Dick Eastman is writing about the merger here

Anna-Karin in Chicago 1

I have arrived in Chicago. I hope to be able to post something about my experiences here later.

The first Swedes came to Chicago in the 1840-thies and 1850thies

Swedish Royal Weddings: Crown princess Victoria to Daniel Westling June 19th 2010 part 1

At last the wedding of Crown princess Victoria and Daniel Westling took place in Storkyrkan just beside the Royal Palace in Stockholm.. The wedding day was the culmination of 3-4 days of festivities. I have tried to find some You Tube clips to show you everything what went on

The day before the wedding(June 18th) there was a big gala consert at the Concert Hall in Stockholm were a lot of Swedish singers and artists celebrated the princess and her fiance among the artists were the group Roxette (Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson who performed their song The Look



In the beautiful Ending of the consert a lot of singing children came up to salute the crown princess (about 3 min. into the video)