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Travel in Riga region, the rest of planet earth and English teaching. RB#9&10: Civilisation: Riga and Jurmala. August 26, 2016. We’d picked up on the other side of the Daugava, at Daugavgriva.I’ve blogged before. However, Daugie does retain its hidden charms and one of them is its beach, accessed through a nature park. It’s quite weird to see this nature, with the backdrop of Soviet-era tower blocks. Civilisation has its advantages! The latter are sparsely populated. Further along, the crowds thin out an...
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Swedish surnames – Priests | Nordic Roots
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Swedish surnames – patronyms. Using the CDs Dödboken and Sveriges befolkning →. Swedish surnames – Priests. February 28, 2014. The second guide to Swedish surnames. Read the one on patronyms first. Very often a Swedish surname is identifiable as a surname originating from a priest in your family tree. Those surnames often became inherited both by the female and male offspring of the priest and used instead or together with a patronymic. They can also add latinized locations to the name. For example:.
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Nordic Roots | Genealogy in Scandinavia | Page 2
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Newer posts →. February 11, 2014. So, where do you start if you want to know more about your Scandinavian roots? You perhaps know of a Swedish ancestor in your family and wanna know more? This is how you should proceed:. 1 Talk to people. 2 Search American resources. Try searching them at places like Ellis Island. Trace their life in the US. Look through American records like this one. 3 Lost in translation. When he came to America. This was a common practice, to “americanize” the name...And familysea...
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Geography of Sweden | Nordic Roots
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Old map (ca 1700) of Sweden. With their iso-code-letter next to them. Often seen in other genealogists work and therefor something you should understand. Such as U-län or (U) in a reference meaning Västmanlands län. The largest form of administrative territory in Sweden after the state it self. Counties of Sweden 2007 with (partial) ISO 3166-2:SE codes. The four hundreds of the province of Blekinge. Lister, Bräkne, Medelstad and Östra härad. Civil parishes of England. But not completely the same (lacks c...
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Where to start? | Nordic Roots
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So, where do you start if you want to know more about your Scandinavian roots? You perhaps know of a Swedish ancestor in your family and wanna know more? This is how you should proceed:. 1 Talk to people. 2 Search American resources. Try searching them at places like Ellis Island. Where many Scandinavian immigrants arrived in the 1800s. Some of them also arrived in Canada and came from there to USA. Some information, but not much, can be found freely on Canada here. 3 Lost in translation. When he came to...
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Sorry for the long break | Nordic Roots
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Swedish surnames – Soldiers. The blog is dead? Sorry for the long break. April 16, 2014. Sorry about the lack of posts. Ive been busy and blogging haven’t been a priority. Expect new blog posts soon. This entry was posted in Geneaology. Swedish surnames – Soldiers. The blog is dead? Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. The blog is dead? Inform...
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Swedish surnames – patronyms | Nordic Roots
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Swedish geography for genealogists. Swedish surnames – Priests →. Swedish surnames – patronyms. February 17, 2014. Kinds of typical Swedish surnames in genealogy and you can most likely identify a Swedish (or at least Scandinavian) root to a surname among your ancestors. It is very important to understand how names work, since this will help you greatly in your research. This first post is about patronyms, but there are several more, which will get their own posts soon. The son of Nicolas Thorolfsen Frii...
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Daniel | Nordic Roots
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The blog is dead? March 23, 2015. As you might have noticed the blog IS basically dead. New priorities in life made that happen. I will leave it alive for now if I ever change my mind and resume blogging. Sorry for the long break. April 16, 2014. Sorry about the lack of posts. Ive been busy and blogging haven’t been a priority. Expect new blog posts soon. Swedish surnames – Soldiers. March 5, 2014. Using the CDs Dödboken and Sveriges befolkning. March 2, 2014. Swedish surnames – Priests. February 28, 2014.
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The Cirksis Family: June 2013
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Saturday, 29 June 2013. More letters coming soon. Just a quick post to let everyone know I will be posting new letters soon. I have been run off my feet for the past few weeks so I haven't been doing a lot of geaneology. Stay tuned! Monday, 17 June 2013. This will just be a quick post to highlight a website that I found particularly interesting:. The Center for Baltic Heritage. I'm not sure why but there seems to be two web addresses for this site so I will link the other one as well. On of the pages lin...
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