The beginning

Military scrolls for Jönköping's regiment F 386 1807 - 1818 Picture 42. At the bottom of this page you see the first Lantz soldier on Bygget, namely Jonas who in 1807 during the general muster in Stralsund was promoted to Vice Corporal.

4 years ago I read a small article I had found via Twitter.

The article was about the fact that there were now 500,000 divided soldiers found and registered. This was at the end of October 2016 and I had at some point many years before thought about doing some genealogy. I had some paper on old relatives that a relative had produced 25 years earlier but these papers were far from complete. I myself had no experience of doing any genealogy and I did not know where to find all the books where you could get the data.

Of course I knew about Vadstena and the archives they have there, but that was pretty much the only thing I knew.

The internet is usually a good source to find most things and I started looking a bit to see if you could get something about the old soldiers that you have in the family and pretty quickly I got more information about some of the soldiers that I have in the family than I knew before. This of course made me intrested and I wanted to know even more.

It did not take many days before I had found a place online where I could post what I found and I also found old church books, Military scrolls and things like that on Arkiv Digital (Swedish site with churchbooks and military scrolls).

So it only took me a few days to go from reading a little article to starting with genealogy. I had no immediate idea how long it would take or if I would find something special.

Now, 4 years later, I'm still doing genealogy research and I've found more than I ever could have imagined existed in a family. It is far from done and it will certainly take many more years before I can begin to go into depth for many of the people I have found. Genealogy is both fun and interesting, I think, and at the same time you learn a lot about how it was in the past.

This blog will be about my genealogy and the journey to new discoveries and new places.

I do not know how often I will blog about this but do not worry.

This is only the beginning!

//Daniel