Swedish Research: Tips for Beginners: Difference between revisions

Europeans write dates as day/month/year in the time period your Swedish ancestor's records were created.&nbsp; For example, a date listed as 5/10 1820, would be the 5th of October, 1820.&nbsp; 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.&nbsp; 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&nbsp;send yourself off on an incorrect research path as a result.&nbsp; The names are so common in Sweden you could possibly find someone with your transposed date even in the same parish, and take off researching&nbsp;a whole new line of ancestry - just not yours!<br>