Meetings

Bishop Hill and more Read More »

Due to inclement weather, our scheduled speaker had to cancel. We were able to quickly pull together a great program on short notice. Moveable Feast Days – What are they and why would I care? Beverly Harbourt, SGSC Member Older church records from Sweden often reference dates from the liturgical calendar. Here are some tips […]

Swedes in Rockford Read More »

Program: “Swedes in Rockford” Author Lilly Setterdahl This presentation will focus on her book “Rockford Swedes: American Stories”, first written in 1993 and recently revised. There will be many photos of people and places in Rockford. She will likely also talk about the Swedish-American church records that she and her late husband, Lennart Setterdahl, microfilmed

The Fewer, The Prouder…The Wikgren Soldiers Read More »

Program “The Fewer, The Prouder…The Wikgren Soldiers” Claire Wikgren Schaeffer, SGSC Member The presentation will focus on the period of the Great Northern War, an event and time period that defined both Sweden and Russia. In the course of this presentation you will encounter various soldiers – their names, their families, their relationships – as

Swedish Churches Read More »

Research and Mentoring Update Kjell provided the following information about new resources available to Swedish genealogy researchers. [wpdm_package id=3658 template=”link-template-default.php”]   Short Program “The Old Swede – Henry A. Recen, Founder of Frisco and Recen Colorado” Jean Larson Adams – SGSC Member [wpdm_package id=3660 template=”link-template-default.php”]   Who was Henry A. Recen, where did he emigrate

Who are those Nyström Boys? Read More »

“Who Are Those Nyström Boys?” Larry Dodge, SGSC Member Larry has been a traveler for most of his life.  He went to eight different schools through high school and graduated from the Air Force Academy in 1973.  With the engineering and math background which he brings to genealogy, he expects things to be reasonably logical.

Finding My Father’s Family Read More »

“Finding My Father’s Family” Doris Ferguson, SGSC Member All four of my grandparents and my father were born in Sweden and emigrated in the late 1800s to Duluth, Minnesota and Superior, Wisconsin. I knew very little about my father’s family and have found cousins even here in Colorado and visited some of our cousins near

Jönköpings Län: History, Culture and Cousins Read More »

Program “Jönköpings Län: History, Culture and Cousins?” Linda Gensmer, SGSC Member Some of Linda Gensmer’s ancestors were from Jönköpings Län, which is now part of Småland and Västergötland. They lived in eight of the parishes on the eastern shore of Lake Vättern and she has traced almost all of the lines from the immigration in

After Family Tree Maker – and Colorado Church Records Read More »

Program “After Family Tree Maker? What does this mean and what are our options?” Beverly Harbourt, SGSC Member Following the panic that gripped every genealogist when Ancestry announce that they were discontinuing Family Tree Maker Software it was determined that we should look at some of the other software options out there. Therefore, this program

Documentation: Why, How, Text Book and Functional Read More »

“Documentation – Why, How, Text Book and Functional” SGSC Member ~ Larry Dodge The first ten years or so that I was involved in collecting “genealogy”, I thought I would always remember where I got information, who said what, and how they explained events in the lives of ancestors that they knew personally or from first hand