The genealogist

Genealogy research is not always as easy as you think.

With that in mind, one can scare most people away from starting genealogy. Joke side, it's not always easy but at the same time it's not always that hard either. I have looked in many church books during the time I have looked for the family from the past and sometimes it is almost impossible to see what is in them. It was sometimes as if the priests who wrote everything down in the books were so drunk that they could barely write at all.

Blomskog CI:4 (1773-1827) Pic 12 / side 17 (AID: v4997.b12.s17, NAD: SE/VA/13038)

When you have done genealogy for a while, you learn how to interpret the old writings that are in the church books, but sometimes it does not matter how long you sit with church books, you can not interpret what is in them, as on the left side in the picture above , from Värmland and Blomskogs parish. Where maybe you can agree that it is very difficult to read what the priest has written? Of course, their crow's feet were not always illegible.

When you do genealogy research, it is not only the church books you look at because there is often someone in the family who has been a soldier or something else in the military. When you find a military man in the family, it is often the "generalmönster rullor" that you look in to find out where they have been for somewhere and what they have done during their service. It was as I mentioned in previous posts that the soldiers and the military were the ones who were traveling at this time and then it can be included in the various rolls and it can be a little interesting reading sometimes.

I who have had many footsoldiers and other soldiers in my family through the generations can have it quite easy sometimes because they could stay in the same area during their lives and then you do not have to look in very many parishes to find them.

Another thing that is also being done in genealogy is to write emails or call different local associations where the different relatives have lived to find out if they have anything about one's family that can be helpful. Sometimes you can hear stories about the family that you may not have known about and sometimes you may not get anything at all from them.

In addition to Arkiv Digital, there is also SVAR, which is the National Archives' service for genealogists. What may not be on Archive Digital can be found on ANSWER. It is not always that the different places collaborate with their archives, which you may think is a bit bad.

Of course, there are other places where you can get information and access to church books, military rolls and such. through SVAR or Arkiv Digital to make sure that it is the right information you get.

Sometimes you may not always want to sit with church books and such but may want to learn a little more about what the living conditions were and then also try to see if you can find something else that may have to do with family. There are always many different opportunities to find the different things but I will not cover everything here.

//Daniel