In this the second podcast with interviews from The Genealogy Days in Falköping in august 2009

I feature the 3 remaining interviews I made there.

The first interview is with Thomas Hermelin from Arkivdigital A relatively new company that photographs archival records in colour and puts them on line

The second interview is with Bo Björkström from the regional archive in Gothenburg. He speaks a bit about the archive and its holdings.

The htird Interview is with Torill Jensen From DIS-Norge  she speeks a bit about Norwegian genealogy and records some of them are available online at Digitalarkivet

 

If yoy would like to comment or sen d me an e-mail please do so to annakarinsgenealogicalpodcast@gmail.com

 

In this podcast i will feature the 3 first interviews i made  at the congress of the Swedish Federation of Genealogical Societies congress in Falköping in august 2009

The first Interview is with Ted Rosvall the former chairman of The Swedish Federation of Genealogical Societies

In the Interview he speaks about the Falköping area as well as about his emigrant research and about his books.

In the second Interview I speak to Erik Gustafsson the chairman of the Swedish -American Center in Karlstad.

He is speaking about EMIWEB the webbplace with databases and indexes over Scandinavian immigrants to USA and Canada.

In the third interview I speak with Peter Wallenskog from Genline about their work putting churchrecords online.

if you have any questions the shows e-mail is_

 annakarinsgenealogicalpodcast@gmail.com

You can also visit my blog at  http://anna-karinsgenealogicalblog.blogspot.com/

 

In this episode I feature 4 interviews I made last year at the Genealogy Days in Malmö aug 30-sept 1th At the yearly conference of Swedish Federation of Genealogical Societies. 1.Interview with Erik Gustafsson from Swedish American Center (former Kinship center) in Karlstad. He speaks about EMIWEB The website with indexes of Swedish Emigrants . 2.Interview with genealogist Anna-LenaHultman about The DVD The Swedish Death Index 1947-2006 and her own research center Konkordiahuset (The Konkordia house) 3.Interview with Claes Westling from the regional archive in Vadstena and the system of regional archives 4.Interview with Anders Nordström at SVAR .About their digitization of and putting archival records online. I also have a blogAnna-Karins Genealogical Blog The e-mail adress to the podcast is annakarinsgenealogicalpodcast (at) gmail.com

In this episode I have 2 interviews i made at the Genealogy Days in Malmö 2008 aug 30-sept 1 . the First is with Lorna Nelson from the Old Mill Museum in Lindsborg Kansas.She speaks  about the museum and about the first Swedes in the Lindsborg area.The second interview is with Peter Wallenskog of Genline. He speaks about two of Genlines new features Familjeband (Family ties) and Bygdeband (Ties to places).
You are also welcome to take a look at my blog
Anna-Karins Genealogical Blog
If you want to send me any comment please e-mail me at
annakarinsgenealogicalpodcast@gmail.com

In this podcast  I speak a bit about the yearly Minnesota Day held the second sunday in August (this year August 10) at the Swedish Emigrant institute.
the Minnesota Day is held as a celebration to swedish imigration to USA
especially to Minnesota and also to other parts of the world.
It features among other things the giving og the award  "Swedish -American of the Year" this year it was Barbro Osher.
Before the celebration I managed to make 2 interviews.
firstly with Ted Rosvall the chairman of the Swedish Federation of Genealogical societies   He speaks about the Federation and its website and their yearly conference "The Genealogy Days"in the city of Malmö. aug 29-31  his travels to USA and its work and also what things he think is important for anyone with swedish ancestors should know. He also mentions the Federations website in english. and the CD-ROM  The swedish Death book 1947-2006. the CD-ROM is available in the Federations webshop wich is all in swedish but you can ask questions over mail  info@genealogi.se  .

the other interview is with the noted Swedish_american scholar H Arnold Barton
he talks about his own swedish ancestors and about some of the books he has written.
We will also hear The "Minnesota Day song" performed by the
Växjö Male Choir.
Lastly I speak about my new genealogical blog
Anna-Karins Genealogical Blog.
The blog is losely connected to the podcast and in it  I write about swedish genealogy and history and subjects close to that and also a little about my own family research.
I also launch a new possibility to mail me and ask qustions I will then try to answer in the podcast
the e-mail to the podcast is as usual
annakarinsgenealogicalpodcast@gmail.com

I have started a new Genealogy blog  losely connected to this podcast
it is called

Anna-Karin's Genealogical blog

Welcome to take a look at it !

This is the first podcast episode  since I came back from my trip to USA.
I had a great time visiting Minnesota, The Southern Californian Genealogical Jamboree in Burbank California and  Washington state.

In this Podcast Episode I have 2 interwiews.  The first is made at the Genealogical Jamboree in Burbank and it is with Genline's   american representative Kathy Meade and she tells about Genlines services to American and Canadian customers.

The Second Interwiew is with Martin Sandberg and he is telling about
Kindo a new London based social networking site for families (and to some extent family researchers) to keep in touch.
Here are the website mentioned in the podcast.

Genline

Kindo


If you have any comment to the podcast you are welcome to either write a comment here  or write me an e-mail at 
 annakarinsgenealogicalpodcast@gmail.com

In this podcast I tell abit about my planned trip to USA this summer. I hope to be present at the Southern California Genealocical Jamboree in Burbank ,California June27-june29th.   I speak about a good book about Swedish genealogy Your Swedish Roots.

I have an iterview with Aron Axelsson  the former chairman of the  The Genealogical Society of Kronoberg /The Genealogical Federation of Kronoberg

It is part of my first little videoproduction  "The Day of Familyresearch "
it is also available at rootstelevision 
in the rootstube section.  Aron Axelssons e-mail is   aronax@telia.com

There will be a Swedish Genealogical workshop at the Swedish embassy in Washington may 301th -June 1st. were there will be the possiblility to meat with swedish genealogists for short consultations.
there will be a Emigration Conference in Mellerud in the province of Dalsland aug 15-16. If you want to know more about the Homecomming Year in Dalsland click here.
During the work on this episode i got the news that the Swedish Emigrant Institute here in Växjö is in dagne rof being forced to merge with our local county Museum. I have written about it on this blog may 16 you can also read about it on the Swedish Federation of Genealogical societies english webpage there are also the Institutes former director Ulf Beiboms article
about the supposed merger and links to a petition aginst the planned merger.
This podcast has been nominated to the Swedish Podradioprize  I have written about it in an earlier post on this blog in wich I also give instructions on how to vote for the podcast in the diffewrent categories.

Anna-karins Genealogical Podcast has been nominated in the contest "Svenska Podradio priset"= the Swedish Podradio prize"
the podcast is nominated in some different categories the contest is held by a swedish company called Daytona.
If you would want to vote for my podcast please follow this link
Svenska Podradiopriset 2008

when you click the link you will come to the contest page in swedish
a bit down on the page are the different  categories in witch you can
vote for your favorite podcast. Anna-karins Genealogical podcast is
nominated in the following categories.

Bästa teknik och Vetenskap= Best tecnical and sciense (podcast)

Bästa amatörkanal  = best amateur channel  (podcast)

bästa originalkanal = best original  channel (podcast)

bästa svenska kanal = best swedish channel (podcast)

you mark the podcast you want to vote for 
a bit under that on the page you will se the text

Din e-mail adress  = your e-mail adress

you put your name in the box below the text and then go to the button below marked

rösta= vote 

you press the button  shortly afterwards you will resieve an e-mail with swedish text  wich asks you to click the link in the mail to confirm your vote  you click the link and then your voting is done.
If you like my podcast  please vote for it.

Hello  everybody

 

During the work with my next podcast episode the information have researched me that

The “Swedish Emigrant institute “ here in växö  the museum and research institution about the Swedish emigration to USA and  other parts of the world. Is in danger of being forced to merge with The Smålands Museum “ (our local county museum) It would probably BE THE END OF THE Swedish Emigrant Institutes time as an independent museum and research institute  and  the museums exhibitions would be in danger of closing or be substansially reduced. Its research department would also be in danger closing and with that the possibility for  people witch Swedish ancestors to write or visit it and with the help of its material to find out where their Swedish ancestors came from.

The institute has extensive collections of microfilmed Swedish-american church records-swedish-american newspapers  Swedish-american  society archives as well as collections of individual emigrants letters back to Sweden and an extensive library with books  about Swedish immigrations to other parts of the world.  In my podcast of jan 25^th I had an interview with the Swedish emigrant Institue’s librarian Yngve Turesson  (please listen to it if you want)

The Swedish emigrant Institute has suffered from some turbulence in later years as well as economical problems  and the politicians in Växjö want to merge it with the local county Museum  and has  taken away all economical backing to both the museums  until they agree to the merge.

Both Museums are well woth looking at  and while I think that a cooperation between them would be a good idea . I think that a total merger could be a disastrous for the Swedish Emigrant Institutes future . 

Here are the URL of the Swedish Emigrant institutes webpage  in English

http://www.utvandrarnashus.se/eng/

on the Swedish version of the website its current head has written about the institutes present situation (unfortunately they have not put up the text  on the English version).

The website of the Smålands Museum is here

http://www.smalandsmuseum.se/engelska/eng_frameset.htm

 

 

There is a petition  to the politicans (Bo Frank and Kristina Alsén) aginst the merge  here are some instructions oin how to sign as wellas an approximate translation of the petition

 

Go tto the folloving URL 

http://www.namninsamling.com/site/get.asp?Emigrant

 

then you will see  Swedish text  witch I says in Swedish  aproximatley wha ti have translated into below

 

To Bo Frank, Kristina Alsér

 

Shall the Swedish Emigrant Institute (SEI)  be incorporated in a local historical Center under a with The Museum of Småland common  head and  board  of directors .The consequence for the Swedish Emigrant Institute would be that it would abdicate from its role as a national and international research institute and it would become a archival depot under The Museum of Småland  wich goes against its statutes  and aginst the ideas of The Swedish Emigrant Institutes founder Gunnar Helén and against four decades  successful work on both sides of the Atlantic. What reactions would this create on the Swedish level, i on the Swedish-American level, among researchers and in Knut and Alice Wallenberg’s foundation witch have during the years donated 20 million Swedish kronor to the Swedish emigrant Institute and motivated its generosity with the Swedish Emigrant Institutes national and international role   Is the Institute  witch since its foundation in 1968 has drawn more than one million visitors to The house of Emigrants (the building in witch the Swedish Emigrant institute resides) and witch according to guidebooks in English is of the biggest tourist attractions in the city of Växjö not worth more. Let the Swedish –emigrant Institute remain as an independent unit. Instead of subject it to budget cuts let it expand !

With kind regards

Under it you will see the word  “undertecknade” if you click that you will see those who have signed the petition

Somewhere further belowthe petions text you will se a text

“Skriv på listan” it means  sign the petition   if you click there  you will come to a page on wich it says

“emigrantinstitutet, Ny underskrift”  it means the emigrant Institute new signer

Under that you will se bowses with the word ”förnamn “witch means firs tname  “Efternamn” wich means  last name  “E-postadress” wich means e-mail address  “Postort” witch basically means were you live  and “kommentat” wich means  comment   .

When you have signed your name e-mail and place of residence  you click on the button parked “Spara”  wich means save

You would then recive a confirmation e-mail   called something like “bekräftelse av tillage på namninsamling”

It will say something like

Hej  (your name)  =  Hello (your name)

Klicka på länken nedan för att aktivera din inskrivning = click on the link below to activate your signature

Then follows the link you should click to activate your signature

Then follows

Med vänlig hällsning  =  with kind regards

Namninsamling.com  = witch is the name of the site that managed the petition

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If you  want to sign the petion I hope you will be able to follow my instructions