Who do You think you are live in London feb 25-27th part 1

A Few weeks ago I had the pleasure of attending the Who do you think you live conference in London .It has taken place since 2007 in The Olympia National Hal. It is organised by and sponsored by among others BBC Magazines Ancestry.co.uk .Society of Genealogists.












Many different genealogical and Historical Societies and genealogical service providers exibited and there were also many workshops and lectures given on a variety of different subjects

Ancestry.co.uk
had one of the biggest booth in the exibition with a lot of visitors
According to the England 1901 Census around 5000 Swedish born lived in England.

They even had a special lounge at the second floor were Ancestry.com subscribers could meet and relax and discuss their research.

Find My Past also has a lot of english records(Census,Military and parish records online. at the Exibitions there was time for a lot of inetrested visitors to take a look in their records or buy a subscribtion .









There were also demostrations and small workshops held by the staff for people interested in how to do Family research and how the site works and the content of its collections

This nice lady in old fashined clothing helped
me to get my subscription to to work
(Do anyone know her name ?)

Scotlandspeople is a website with similar content as Find My Past but for Scotland even here the visitors were shown the content by helpful members of the staff like this lady (who is she ?).

Genealogy Days in Malmö Day 1

This years Swedish Genealogy Days the yearly conference of the Swedish Federation of Genealogical Societies was held in the city of Malmö in the province of Skåne in southern Sweden .Over 100 exibitors crowded in the convention center at Europaporten in Malmö.Everything from genealogical societies, archives to companies offering original sources online.

Among the exibitors was the Swedish Emigrant Institute from Växjö. They were friendly to let me go with them in their car.
Here we can see archivist Kristina Persson and Bo Björklund study some of the Institutes databases containing swedish emigrants to USA and other places.

Erik Gustavson from the Kinship Center in Karlstad in the province of Värmland.

Spoke about EMIWEB a new project launched by the Kinship Center the Swedish Emigrant Institute. Göteborgs Emigranten and some others.EMIWEB is a webbplace aimed at housing some of the databases containing swedish emigrants to USA and other countries for example databases of swedish emigrants taken from swedish churchrecords and also members of swedish-american societies.In time the databases should be searchable over the web for a subscription fee. I was lucky to get an interwiev with Erik Gustavson wich I hope to use in a later podcast episode

Today we have a terrible rain so it is a perfect weather for doing your family research by the computer or sorting paper at home ;)
Earlier this year I made a little video about "The Day of Family research" wich was held March 15 Here in Växjö it was held at the library and members of
The Kronobergs Genealogical Federation wich is our local Genealogical society
they showed people how to do their family research in the video I also have an interview with its former chairman Aron Axelsson

I have been interviewed

This is my first posting so welcome to my blog. I am a swedish Family researcher intrested in genealogy and especially about swedish immigrants to USA and other countries.

Recently I made a trip to USA wich I hope to tell about in this blog.
during the trip i took part in the Southern Californian Genealogical jamboree in Burbank California.

At the Jamboree I was interviewed by representatives from Rootstelevision
Here is the interview