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Swedish Research: Tips for Beginners (view source)
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Evaluate what you have already checked. This is a lot easier if you have documented your sources during your research activities. Keep a good research log. List your search objectives i.e. "Find the marriage license application of Magnus Swansson to try and find place of birth in Sweden." List the types of record searched, the time period the record covers AND the time periods searched in that record, which may be very different from the time span it covers as a whole . Note any anomalies in the record such as, "pages 10-13 unreadable - ink spilled," or "edges of index pages burned off," "male indexed only," and so forth. <br> | Evaluate what you have already checked. This is a lot easier if you have documented your sources during your research activities. Keep a good research log. List your search objectives i.e. "Find the marriage license application of Magnus Swansson to try and find place of birth in Sweden." List the types of record searched, the time period the record covers AND the time periods searched in that record, which may be very different from the time span it covers as a whole . Note any anomalies in the record such as, "pages 10-13 unreadable - ink spilled," or "edges of index pages burned off," "male indexed only," and so forth. <br> | ||
Recrod the film number, fiche number, book number, CD number or Web address of the site where informaiton was obtained, along with book, page, and entry number where applicable. The person following your tracks to get to that same information should need just a few minutes to do that, if you've done a good job of documenting. | Recrod the film number, fiche number, book number, CD number or Web address of the site where informaiton was obtained, along with book, page, and entry number where applicable. The person following your tracks to get to that same information should need just a few minutes to do that, if you've done a good job of documenting. | ||
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=== Think Phonetically === | === Think Phonetically === | ||
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As indicated, the ''å ''(or two "a's" together)is pronounced with a long "o" sound, so "Smoland" is perfect for the phonics listed. | As indicated, the ''å ''(or two "a's" together)is pronounced with a long "o" sound, so "Smoland" is perfect for the phonics listed. | ||
To help you learn a little more about the sounds, go online and find a Swedish/English dictionary, with pronounciation marks. And, always, always roll names around on your tongue and see what you come up with. Many times, you'll get it right! | To help you learn a little more about the sounds, go online and find a Swedish/English dictionary, with pronounciation marks. And, always, always roll names of people and places around on your tongue and see what you come up with. Many times, you'll get it right! | ||
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=== Watch Those Dates! === | === Watch Those Dates! === | ||
Europeans write dates as day/month/year in the time period your Swedish ancestor's records were created. For example, a date listed as 5/10 1820, would be the 5th of October, 1820. Get in the habit in all your Swedish and other European country genealogical research, of writing dates with the number of the day, then the 3-4 letter abbreviation for the month, then the full year. If you do not do this, and are abstracting or extracting information from the records, you will at some point in time transpose the dates. You WILL send yourself off on an incorrect research path as a result. The names are so common in Sweden you could find someone with your transposed date, and create a whole ancestry - just not yours.<br> | Europeans write dates as day/month/year in the time period your Swedish ancestor's records were created. For example, a date listed as 5/10 1820, would be the 5th of October, 1820. Get in the habit in all your Swedish and other European country genealogical research, of writing dates with the number of the day, then the 3-4 letter abbreviation for the month, then the full year. If you do not do this, and are abstracting or extracting information from the records, you will at some point in time transpose the dates. You WILL send yourself off on an incorrect research path as a result. The names are so common in Sweden you could find someone with your transposed date, and create a whole ancestry - just not yours.<br> | ||
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