In todays podcast I speak firstly about some websites of interest for you with ancestors in the southern part of Sweden.


The Demographical Database for Southern Sweden


The Scanaian Genealogy Federation

Kristdala
The website of the town of Kristdala in Småland.

Secondly I will speak about some swedish-american churches founded
by swedish immigrants to the USA.

Augustana Heritage Association
Contains history about the churches of the Augustana Synod

Article in Wikipedia about the Evangelical Covenant church

Evangelical Covenant church
Official Website of the Evangelical Covenant church.

Article in Wikipedia about the Baptist General conference

Baptist General conference
Official website for the Baptist General conference.

Microfilmed records of many swedish-american churches are
kept at the
Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center
and at
The Swedish Emigrant Institute

You are welcom to post any comments here or e-mail me
at:
 annakarinsgenealogicalpodcast@gmail.com

In this podcast i speak about swedish surnames and family names before
1900 a good article about them can be found at the Swedish Federation of Genealogical societies website at

http://www.genealogi.se/roots/


I also speak about some websites of interest for people with ancestors from the nothern part of Sweden.

The House of Genealogy in Leksand

http://www.genhouse-sweden.com/sidor/indexe.html

The Kinship Center in Karlstad

http://www.emigrantregistret.s.se/frameset-en.htm

Ragunda Emigrant -& Genealogical Center

http://www.emigrant-z.com/index1.html

The Demographical Database in Jörn

http://www.ddb.umu.se/index_eng.html

The Heritage Society in Karskoga

http://web.telia.com/~u58606249/index.htm

The podcast also contains a bit of live folk music played by Viola Ek from Furuby and also a comic monologue in "swenglish" by the actor Arvid Paulson (from the Cylinder and Digitazition Preservation Project at the library of the university of California in Santa Barbara)

You are welcome to leave a comment or mail me at
akschander@gmail.com

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In this podcast I speak about some useful websites for anyone searching for swedish ancestors. they are

The Federation of Swedish Genealogical Societies

The Swenson  Swedish Immigrant  Research Center

The Swedish Emigrant Institute

Genline

Swedish Archival Information in Ramsele SVAR

I also speak about swedish churchrecords like baptismal,marriage and death records as well as about houshold examination rolls.

You are welcome to leave a comment here or to mail me at
annakarinsgenealocicalpodcast@gmail.com

In this my first real podcast I speak a little about  what the podcast will be about.  As well as a little about myself and about some swedish letters
Å, Ä and Ö and their use in swedish.
The music "Bleking" (a tune recorded ca 1914) and "Du gamla du fria"
(the Swedish National Anthem) in the podcast comes from"Cylinder Preservation and Digitization Project " at the library of University of California in Santa Barbara
http://cylinders.library.ucsb.edu/  .The music comes from old recordings on wax cylinders (phonograph).
You are wellcome to mail me any suggestions and comments to  akschander@gmail.com