Most of you has probably heard the story of how it comes that I started with genealogy, that it was thanks to an article about Swedish soldiers and that I went on from there. Some might even remember that I already had some papers with a small family tree that my mom had got from a cousin of hers and that I made a copy by hand. I was intrested in genealogy about 25 years before I even started with it and of course I was already intrested in history so everything fitted me like a glove.
It has now been 5 years since I became interested in looking a little at the family and seriously start with genealogy. What happened here during these years? Have I found anything fun? Have I found anything boring? Have I found anything strange? This blog has already answered a few of these questions and that was a bit the reason why I started it too. Over the years, I have received some questions about the family and things that I have tried to answer and it eventually became this blog just to make it easier for everyone to sit down and relax when you go through it all. It was just a little over a year ago, I actually started the English version of this blog for the American relatives so that they too could see how things were with everything here in Sweden at the time that the ancestors still lived here. Over the years, they have been helped a lot with the research here in Sweden as it is far from everyone who knows so much Swedish that they understand what is written in all the papers they find. It's fun for me too, of course, as I get to learn more about who emigrated to the United States and what happened to them and all that. You also get to know a lot of people who you would never have gotten to know otherwise and who then of course have common interests through genealogy.
Even though it has been five years since the start of my genealogy journey through the ages, it has not actually diminished in the way you might think, but it often becomes something genealogy-related you do during the weeks and you do not immediately think that it is genealogy you doing. It may sound a little strange, but when you have done it for a long time, you do not really think about it the way you did in the beginning.
One thing that comes with the years is that you learn a lot about different things. To the uninitiated, the priests' handwriting can sometimes look like pure Greek, while for someone else it is fully readable. Of course, it can be difficult sometimes for me still because not all priests wrote very well.
Even though I have still only scratched the surface a bit on the whole, there are still some stories that have come out that I did not know anything about before and it is always nice. There are many stories left about the family for me to dig out, but it will probably take many more years and I will probably never really be completely finished!
//Daniel
No comments:
Post a Comment