Minnesota Genealogy Lookups

Minnesota needs volunteers to help look up genealogical information. If you have any reference material of general interest to the state - public records, items from your own family files, or materials published before 1930 (copyrights expired) - and are willing to do limited lookups for others, please email the MNGenWeb State Coordinator so your name and your reference material may be listed on this page. For materials published in 1930 or later (copyrights in effect), please refer to the USGenWeb Project's Official Copyright Policy.

When requesting a lookup of a volunteer, please follow these guidelines:

1. Make sure MNLookup is in the subject line of your message.
2. Put the name of the reference you are requesting in your message as the volunteer may have several references available, some which you may have already checked.
3. Limit your request to 1 or 2 specific names with approximate dates.
4. Don't forget to thank your volunteer for time and effort!

Email me if you are willing to be a lookup volunteer - Thanks!

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Minnesota Counties

Becker County

I would be more than happy to help anyone with their questions on genealogy or history for Becker Co. I also have a lot of information on Ottertail, Hubbard, Mahnomen, and Clay Co. Cherie   July 2006

Benton County

I will do lookups at the Benton Country Historical Society. Will look up obits, search in surname files, census records for both federal and state. For the state census records I need to know the township or area that they lived. May also do tombstone photos depending on where the cemetery is located. Please email and ask about the photos. The Historical Societys each have their own unique information that I can look into. Please email me with your request and I'll see what I can help you with.   Ann 06/08/06

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Brown County

I am willing to do lookups for Brown and Nicollet counties. Can do cemetery searches, birth, death, and marriage records. Can also do tombstone photos in these two counties.   Ruth Brandel

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Carlton County

I am willing and able to do obits for CARLTON COUNTY, MN, I live very close to the Cloquet, MN library. If the person died in Carlton County, I would have access to the newspaper, the start date of the microfilm I believe is 1898. Pat Glans 07/11/02 In addition to me looking up obits in Carlton County, I have access to the following records on microfilm at the Carlton County Historical Society here in Cloquet: Naturalization records, Fed, Census 1850-1910 & 1920, State Census 1865 - 1905, please be specific with your request. Pat Glans

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Clay County

I have a copy of the book "Clay and Norman Counties Minnesota Vol. II" by Turner and Semling. Published 1918. It has biographies of notible men in Clay and Norman Counties. Check the index to see if there is a name you are interested in and then contact:  Debbie Phenis

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Dakota County

I am willing to do lookups for Dakota, Goodhue, Ramsey, Rice and Washington Counties. I do cemetery searches, census, obituaries, marriages, and more.   Audrey   Oct 2006

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Douglas County

The 1920 Alexandria "Alhias" year book:       It includes an Alumni section for the classes of 1917-9 with names, City and occupation. It also has a list of class mates who served in WWI. I have found help with my own research on the web so now I would like to return the favor.  Ross T. Dunlop

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Goodhue County

I am willing to do lookups for Dakota, Goodhue, Ramsey, Rice and Washington Counties. I do cemetery searches, census, obituaries, marriages, and more.   Audrey   Oct 2006

I can do look ups for Goodhue County. I have access to marriage, births, deaths & records and newspaper indexs from 1884- Present. And census records. Julie Seeley I have my grandfather's copy of the 1913 RED WING HIGH SCHOOL YEARBOOK which contains names and pictures of the Senior class members and also former graduates from 1876R. I'll be happy to do lookups. Jean

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Hennepin County

I have, for a limted time, an South High year Book 1943 and willing to share information.Camille I have a copy of my great-grandfather's notes from his time (1874 - 1884) as supervisor of St. Mary's Cemetery in Minneapolis. He kept records of the names and locations of graves, date buried, and sometimes age of deceased. This is in date order, and is not indexed. M. E. Wickersham Invalid email address 31 May 2019

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Jackson County

I am willing to do look-ups on WWI veterans who enlisted in Jackson County, Minnesota. The book is: Victory - Jackson County Minnesota in the World War -- published 1921 by Neulen & Lueneburg, Lakefield, MN. The book lists veterans names, usually parents names and city of residence -- the unit in which they fought -- the camps they served at -- the date they went overseas -- battles -- wounds received (or died of) -- and the facility where they were mustered out.   Colleen Boose

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Kittson County

I would be willing to do Look-ups form the "Kittson County History Book: Our Northwest Corner" copyright 1976 ;600 pages. Email Christie Countryman

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Koochiching County

I would be willing to do look-ups from the 'History Book of Koochiching County', copyright 1983 by the Koochiching County Historical Society. There are stories of the close to 700 family histories and sometimes pictures. It is not available, so I would have to type you the story. Thank you Irene Hauner

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Mille Lacs County

I am willing to look up birth and death records in Mille Lacs County. Email Wendy

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Mower County

I've got a copy of Mower County in the World War which shows the servicemen from Mower County who served in World War I. The resource is for World War I only. It does not include World War II. Most entries include information about the soldier which may include parents, place of birth, occupation, service units, and photograph. Not all entries include all information.  Mary H. Osmundson

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Nicollet County

I am willing to do lookups for Brown and Nicollet counties. Can do cemetery searches, birth, death, and marriage records. Can also do tombstone photos in these two counties.   Ruth Brandel

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Norman County

I have a copy of the book "Clay and Norman Counties Minnesota Vol. II" by Turner and Semling. Published 1918. It has biographies of notible men in Clay and Norman Counties. Check the index to see if there is a name you are interested in and then contact: Debbie Phenis

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Pennington County

I would be willing to do Look-ups form the "Pennington County History Book: "Pioneer Tales" A History of Pennington County, MN copyright 1976; 568 pages. Email Christie Countryman

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Ramsey County

I am willing to do lookups for Dakota, Goodhue, Ramsey, Rice and Washington Counties. I do cemetery searches, census, obituaries, marriages, and more.   Audrey   Oct 2006

The Catholic Church in the Diocese of St. Paul from earliest origin to centennial achievement: a factual narrative by James Michael Reardon. Publ.: St. Paul, Minn.: North Central Pub. Co., 1952. A history of the Catholic church in Minn. Includes brief histories of individual MN Catholic parishes in the St. Paul/Minneapolis archdiocese through 1952. Provide urban address or rural twp. and date for lookup of nearby Catholic church. No surname data available. Also maps and parish index at http://home.att.net/~Local_Catholic/CatholicUS-StPaul-MnaplsMN.htm I have the 1938 "Cretinite", yearbook for Cretin High School. It contains photos of the school, the faculty, a school calendar, the senior class president/vp etc.. and 'senior class history', photos and signatures of the senior class, photos of the junior- freshmen classes, group photos and brief descriptions of 'activites' and team photos of the sports teams. Can be scanned digitally to high quality or color photocopied. I am also willing to do gravesite lookups at Calvary, Roselawn and Elmhurst Cemetaries and take pictures of head stones. Lisa Radunz I can scan pages in jpg format or mail paper x-rox copies: I have the 1967 Polaris, yearbook for North Senior HS in N. St. Paul, MN. I also have a book on the 47th Viking Infantry Division from 1951 out of Fort Rucker, AL. It contains a written history of the divison and tons of photos of the enlisted men and general photos of training and work at the fort. If you know the battilion, regiment and/or company that would helpful because there is no index to the soldiers in the photos. I may attempt to index this book myself if I have the time or recieve many requests for information. Lisa Radunz

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Red Lake County

I will look up information in my copy of "A History of Red Lake County" Minnesota-1976 slpenchi

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Rice County

I am willing to do lookups for Dakota, Goodhue, Ramsey, Rice and Washington Counties. I do cemetery searches, census, obituaries, marriages, and more.   Audrey   Oct 2006

I do family history every Fri. in Faribault which is Rice county, MN.  I am very willing to look up information for people in the recorders office.  They have births, deaths and marriage books. Barb Dopp

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Scott County

I spend Wed.-Thur-Fri at Scott Co. Historical Society where we have the 1857-1860-1880-1900-1920 Scott Co census indexed. Will do look ups in these years.   Betty Dols

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St. Louis County

I can do obituary lookups for those that died in the Duluth area. Twiggy Have a book for Ely, St. Louis County,  Minnesota. "ELY SINCE 1888". It is from 1988. It has alot of names in it. I would be happy to look up any names and type up the stories for those names. Colleen Clements

Stearns County

I will do lookups at the Stearns County Historical Society. Will look up obits, search in surname files, census records for both federal and state. For the state census records I need to know the township or area that they lived. May also do tombstone photos depending on where the cemetery is located. Please email and ask about the photos. The Historical Societys each have their own unique information that I can look into. Please email me with your request and I'll see what I can help you with.   Ann 06/08/06

Washington County

I am willing to do lookups for Dakota, Goodhue, Ramsey, Rice and Washington Counties. I do cemetery searches, census, obituaries, marriages, and more.   Audrey   Oct 2006

I am listed as a volunteer for Washington County, MN. My specialty is cemeteries and cemetery lookups. I have a website that I have created  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~washingtoncountymn/  or email me at Sarah

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Wright County

I live in Buffalo, Minnesota, so I would be willing to do some lookups for Wright County. I can be contacted me at this email address if anyone needs assistance. Mark Lewis

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Family History

Annie Chapirson - is willing to do look-ups in the following: Bryan/O'Brien Family History, Genealogical Information on the BRYAN/O'BRIEN and FITZGERALD Families. It was authored by Gerry and Joseph Latterell and published in 1981. The family starts in Ireland and immigrates to Shieldsville, LeSueur County, Minnesota and then spreads all over the state although the majority of them remain in the southern and central Minnesota area. It covers 10 generations from before 1799 (the earliest recorded b/d in the book--in the third generation) thru 1981 and has between 1,211 and 1,305 people in it. Recollections, A Cooper Family History, 1734-1996 by William N. Cooper. It covers 9 generations and 5 countries. In one of the fifth generation families 5 of 10 children immigrated from England. Two to Ontario, Canada, where they spread and eventually ended up even in some of the northern U.S. states. Two to St. Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota. Most stayed within the 7 county metro area, although they also spread to Florida, Arizona Washington state and California. One immigrated to Australia. This book has been set up with references, shows where documentation was found, and also has an excellent index. It also has a library catalog number: National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication data: Cooper, William N., 1927- Recollections, A Cooper Family History, 1734-1996 ISBN 0 646 092222 7 1. Cooper Family. 2. Australia - Genealogy 3. Fawkham (England) - Genealogy I. Title.  -  929.20994 Spanning the Century-Ulen, Minnesota History and Family Histories (Clay County) Indexed This is our Story..............Flom, Minnesota (Norman County) Local and Family Histories Journey Back to Hawley, Minnesota.......Hawley, Minnesota (Clay County) Flom Township Cemeteries: (Norman County) Wild Rice Lutheran Church Cemetery Aspelund Lutheran Church Cemetery Bethlehem Lutheran Church Cemetery Immanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery Set of Obituary Books for Norman County, Minnesota. From 1884-2001. Not complete yet, but indexed and easy to check when you have the names and death dates for lookups. Webpage on Flom, Minnesota with lots and lots of local information about area Townships and the Flom Area. Margit Bakke ZENDER - I have a complete history and family tree of Jacob George Zender/Katherine Green and specifically their son John Joseph Zender, (Pickliesser, Bitburg, Germany and St James, Watonwan County, Minnesota). 1846 to late 1980's. This is a huge family scattered all over the globe (John & Katherine Gall had 13 children) and I have info on 1000's of descendants and their families. If you have a connection I would be more than happy to look up info for you. If you are a descendant I would also like to keep the family tree/history updated and make sure what I have is accurate. When writing please put ZENDER in the subject line. Clare Larsen

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Canada

I recently found out that my great great grandfather who immigrated to Mount Forest Ontario, Canada from Ireland about 1839, left to settle in Manannah Twp. Meeker County, Minnesota sometime around 1877-1880. Many other Irish Catholics from this area also left and settled in the above mentioned area of the U.S.A. these people often started families here. I have the births and marriages and sometimes deaths of family members of the families who left this area. Our church records start in 1856. If you have any members of these families who want assistance with their early family tree information, you can contact me. I have been allowed to photo-copy all the Catholic records of this area and am prepared to assist if possible. Thank You , Bob McIntee

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Germany

I have an excellent German atlas dating from the 1930s, which is very detailed with regards to Germany, Austria and other German-speaking areas of eastern Europe (e.g. areas of Prussia that are now part of Poland, etc.). I will be happy to look up place-names and give any geographic information available from this atlas. PLEASE put "GERMAN ATLAS Lookup" in your subject line -- I use spam filters.   Laurie I have the new atlas for Germany. It is in great detail, and has 90,000 towns and villiages indexed. It is only a map of current Germany, but I would be willing to do lookups for people. It has been very helpful in finding those small towns. It also gives the new postalcodes. Darcy Fritche I have a book called Chronik Der Gemeinde Rosport by Jos Krippes. This German text includes Housenames, family names, & marriage information back to the 1700s. An Index of names make easy lookups although translation is not very easy for me-I usually use a web-translation site for help. I may be willing to do some lookups if not too time consuming. (Currently starting up a new business) Margaret (Schabert) Lehmicke

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Netherlands

I can search the list of Limburg Emigrants in So. Netherlands, Limburg Province  Irma Lommen

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Norway

Should you find yourself in a bind and unable to translate any Norwegian books, do feel free to email me a scanned version of the text in question and I will be happy to translate anything.-Alex The Telemark area covering Hjartdal, Sauland & Tuddal. Norway: Telemark Hjartdalsoga, 4 Volumes. Band I - Tuddal; Band II - Sauland; Band IIIA & IIIB - Hjartdal The Band means Volume. There are four volumes I purchased a few months ago directly from Norway. These books were written by Gjertrud Kleveland Karsrud, published in 1992. The books are written in Norwegian and I can translate most of it.  The main information given in the books are dates, names, farm names and places. Kathy Dunn Neil Hofland's Ardal Bygdebok. The Ardal Bygdebok, a record of almost 17,000 people has been translated and compiled by Neil Hofland into database. It includes all those who ever lived in Ardal, Sogn & Fjordane, Norway, plus their descendants through 1985.  You may contact Neil Hofland about your Ardal ancestors as he has offered to do limited lookups in his Ardal database.   Read more about Aardal and Mr. Hofland.   ***An update (7/11/03) for the Årdal genealogical database: I have been adding descendants of the emigrants as find them. There are now 28,458 individuals in the database. I am still looking for more. Some of the contacts have come from this site. Neil Hofland - also is willing to do other look-ups for Norwegian heritage researchers. He writes, "I have all but 4 of the about 90 books published by NAHA plus a smattering of other Minnesota history books, including Folwell's 4 volume History of Minnesota published  back in the 1920's by the Minnesota Historical Society." The Folwell volumes are really full of obscure footnotes. Folwell lived in Minnesota for most of the history to the 20's and personally knew most of the people he wrote about and was at many of the important events. Neil Hofland - also has completed a genealogical database for Lærdal as well. I loaded the 4 volumes of the Lærdal bygdebok that are complete into a PAF database. The fifth and final volume will be out in a couple years or so, and I will add that as well. I am also collecting descendants of the emigrants and entering them. There are now 23,015 individuals and it is growing. Steven R. Moen - Invalid email address 31 May 2019 - says, "I am willing to do lookups in the Leikanger (Sogn og Fjordane) bygdebok. A large number of Minnesotans (I believe) have ancestors from this particular area of Norway." Timothy Mjoen - I will do lookups for Lyngdal and Kvås, Vest-Adger, very southern tip of Norway. I have four well written bygdeboks by Oddleif Lian. Kathryn Kelly - Stjordal Parish (near Trondheim, Norway) - Volume 2 Part 1 - farms: Vikan, Folvik, Sutteroen, Tangen, Habet, Medbroen, Grabekk, Presteng, Kvithammer, Gravold, Maela, Skulborstad, Kinnset, Dullum, Hjelseng, Stokkan, Fosslien, Husby, Moksnes, Oyan, Sandferhus, Retting. This book includes information (vital statistics) on people who lived on these farms. Kathryn Kelly - Stjordal Parish (near Trondheim, Norway) - Volume 5 - farms: Fauskasen, Ronsasen, Sonfossen, Sundal, Vatland, Sonen, Sonbjorgen, Brattas, Kilnes, Kil, Ingstadnes, Einang, Fornes, Ingstad, Fuldset, Hembre, Holm, Hjelseng, Troite, Kyllo, Morset, Korstad, Lunden, Hoven, Staurset, Frigard, Romo, Rolfseng, Okkelberg, Geiteras, Almoen, Fossan, Borraas, Berget, Klefsas, Buland, Skraltkynna, Bakkvollen, Auset, Hastad, Kleven, Myran, Borset, Hoset, Raen, Husbyn, Skjolstad, Retting. This book includes information (vital statistics) on people who lived on these farms. Hakon Jensen - Invalid email address 31 May 2019 - I can do look ups for Hornnes, Tovdal and Gjoevdal in the south of Norway. I have the bygdebooks of those counties. Svein Indrelid: - writes, "I am looking for information on emigrants from the Flåm Valley, Aurland township, Sogn & Fjordane county, Norway 1844-1920 and their descendants. From this small community (today 400 inhab.) more than 500 people emigrated to USA during the period in question." Harald Lorentzen Invalid email address 31 May 2019 - writes, "I try to write the story about the emigrants from my community Nesodden just outside Oslo in Norway. I have found these people emigrate from the community Nesodden to Minnesota." Jacob K. Olsen - Invalid email address 31 May 2019 - I can do look-ups fram Malvik, Sor-Trondelag. This includes the bygdeboks, census and parish-registers. Best wishes, Jacob K. Olsen, Ogndalsveien 95, N-7700 Steinkjer, Norway Phone: +47 74166727 e-mail: jacob.olsen@st.telia.no URL: http://d1o206.telia.com/~u274100148 Work: Financial manager Tronder-Avisa AS URL: http://www.tronderavisa.no Karen-  I have a book that I am willing to do look-ups in. It is titled,TOLGA, and is written in Norweign. It lists around 100 or so towns and farms, and has quite a bit of geneaological information, such as family names, dates, spouses names, and the farms that they came from. It's a a bit hard to translate, but I can scan pages and email them to those who request information. K. Whelpley  - I have the following book..bygdebok for Hornindal-Nordfjord, Sogn og Fjordane, Norway. Stein Auestad - I can do look-ups in the following "bygdebøker" that I have: 3/18/99 * Strand township ("kommune") in Rogaland, formerly Stavanger county (Also often refered to in sources as "Strandssogn", i.e. Strand parish) * Rennesøy township ("kommune") in Rogaland, formerly Stavanger county * Rollag township ("kommune") in Buskerud * Etne township ("kommune") in Hordaland, formerly S. Bergenhus county Stein Auestad  - I also have access to the following "bygdebøker":  3/18/99 * Hjelmeland township ("kommune") in Rogaland, formerly Stavanger county (This includes former townships of Aardal and Fister) * Skaanevik township ("kommune") in Hordaland, formerly S. Bergenhus co. * Suldal township ("kommune") in Rogaland, formerly Stavanger county * Forsand township ("kommune") in Rogaland, formerly Stavanger county I have indexes for several Parishes in Nordland I would do lookups for. Tjøtta, Stamnes, Herøy, Alstahaug for birth,marriage,death and exits. For further Norway research help, join my list at Norway-l-request@rootsweb.com   Karla Halsan Mattila - Invalid email address 31 May 2019 I am a US citizen, a native English speaker, but am living in Trondheim, Norway at this time. I have learned some Norwegian and will be taking more classes. But I think I can do some look-ups in this area if you need them. Tusen takk! Chris Hassenstab Books I have for Sør Trøndelag area of Norway: Bygdebok for Tydal, Book #3, Gards- og slekthistorie for Hilmo, Gresli, Aune Svelmo, Lian, Åsgrinda, Åsdalen og Ås Bygdebok for Tydal, Book #4, Gards- og slektshistorie for Østby, strekningen Nebrua-Fossan, Løvøya, Moen og Stugudal - Haltdalen og Haltdalingen : Bind 1 & 2 by Jens Halstein Nygaard - Ålen books: Bind I 1989 Ålen og Ålbyggen Gård og Slegt Bind II 1989 Ålen og Ålbyggen Gård og Slegt Bind III 1989 Ålen og Ålbyggen Allmenn bygdehistorie - Røros Books: Vol III, 1957. Jon O. Indset - Oliver Moen - Olav Kvikne: Røros landsogn - Brekken gårds- og slektshistorie Vol IV, 1974. Røros bergstad, Vol V, 1974. Glåmos - gårds- og slektshistorie Margit Bakke Hello !  Norway look up: I live in western Norway, Hordaland county, B¸mlo kommune. I can do look-ups in the following "bygdeb¸ker" that I have:  B¸mlo ("kommune"): Moster, Bremnes and B¸mlo "Bygdeb¸ker", Finnaas parish, Hordaland county.  Sincerely,  Helga Kallevik - Invalid email address 31 May 2019 Books from Hedmark and Akershus, Norway   I can do look-ups in the following "bygdebøker" that I have: * Nord-Odal township ("kommune") in Hedmark * Sør-Odal township ("kommune") in Hedmark, both formerly called Odalen. * Nannestad township ("kommune") in Akershus * Gjerdrum township ("kommune") in Akershus Hans Hagen Please refer anyone whowould need my parish records. They are,1740 ish - 1872 for Sor Trondelag / Holtaalen, Alen & Singass and Oppland / Sel, helidal, vaage All in Norway. Curt Paulson - Invalid email address 31 May 2019

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Sweden

Link to a Swedish Genealogy and History Page. I have a homepage about Swedish Genealogy. It is called “Hans Högman's Genealogy and History Page”. The page has been on the Internet since 1996 and most of the pages are translated into English. The homepage has also a lot of information about Swedish History and especially Swedish Military History where I have a great deal of material about the Allotment System (the old system of organizing and financing the Swedish Armed Forces). When you do genealogical research on Swedish ancestors you will sooner or later find an ancestor who served in the military forces. To help the non-Swedish spoken genealogist I have a page called “Find Your Ancestors in the Swedish Military Sources”. It is very important to know how the Swedish Allotment System worked in order to research the soldiers. Therefore I have a page explaining the Allotment System.   The URL to my homepage is: http://www.algonet.se/~hogman/slaekt.htm Examples of articles on my homepage: Swedish naming practices in earlier times. History and organization of the Church of Sweden Old Swedish measurements and weights Land ownership in earlier times - farmers and Crofters Swe/Eng dictionay, Genealogy terms A summary of the Allotment System Swedish Military Research a guide to the military sources The many Swedish wars Swedish/English dictionary - Military terms Best Regards Hans Högman, Sollentuna, Sweden Homepage: http://www.algonet.se/~hogman/slaekt.htm Teri Cleaveland - Invalid email address 31 May 2019 - writes, "I have a book that many Minnesotans might be interested. Book on Swedish families: Den Sagen-om-Spunna Slakten by Jan Vegelius. A book on the descendants of the children of Per Persson Bagenholm. There are almost 800 pages of families. Many are already here in the USA, more are still in Sweden. Most of the book is in Swedish, but I am willing to try to do look ups in the book. Per Persson Bagenholm was born in 1717 and was a member of Parliment, Gaserud, Habol. The book also has his tree back to 1365." Thomas Sverker - writes, "I'm willing to help people with contacts if they are descending from Hälsingland in Sweden. My special area is around Hudiksvall, a parish called Hälsing-Tuna. My project in this parish is to find everything there is in all sources about the people and the farms in Hälsingtuna in the period of 1500-1800. When it comes to Hälsingland thera are a lot of family-books made for about 20 parishes (Most of them made 1960-1970 by a man called K J Nilson). They include a lot of information for people living there in the year 1500-1950:ies. Warning the information for the period 1500-1650 are not to be trusted......... Tommy Andersson - Invalid email address 31 May 2019 - is willing to do lookups in his own material concerning Västerbotten and Norrbotten. He writes, "The material is huge, I have access to all church records in the Northern part of Sweden (Norrland), I have also compiled a couple of family registers in many counties (socken) for example  Bygdeå, Umeå, Burträsk, Lövånger and Skellefteå in Västerbotten, Nederkalix,Överkalix and Råneå in Norrbotten. The period I am talking about is 1500-1920. I also have copies of letters and deeds from the medievals." Carl Spalde - is willing to help people with research if they are descending from two parishes, Bokenaes and/or Dragsmark, in Bohuslaen, Sweden. Kjell Nordqvist -writes, "KARLSKOGA Does this place-name sound familiar to you? Karlskoga is a Swedish city (32000 inhab.) about halfway between Stockholm and Oslo. More than 5000 people emigrated from here to America between 1849 (the goldrush in California) and 1935. Our Heritage Society has an emigrant section in its archives, and we are steadily working with emigrant research. If you have roots here, please let us hear from you. Write to Hembygdsforeningen, Torget 10, 691 31 Karlskoga, or send e-mail to kjell.nordqvist@karlskoga.mail.telia.com We are anxious to hear the story of your emigrated forefathers and get copies of obituaries, citizenship papers, travel documents, pictures etc. for our emigrant records. In return we may have material that is of interest to you. Eigrantregistret in Karlstad was founded in 1960. They have registered all emigrated va:rmlanders (ab. 125.000)and created the data base of the more than 1.2 million emigrants who sailed from Swedish ports. Look at http://www.genealogi.se/component/content/article/135-rotterarkivet/artiklar-som-boerjar-pa-a/1190-soka-emigrerade-slaktingar (under ROTTER)." John Sandh  -  I have a genealogical database for Skelleftea in Vasterbotten, Sweden. There I have collected birth, marriage and deaths during the period of 1700-1935. There are now 55.000 individuals and it's growing.  I'm am also willing to do lookups concerning emigration to Canada and USA. I have access to church records for all parts of Sweden. I could get copies and scan obituaries, birth-, death-, marriage, citizenship papers, travel documents, etc.  June 2007

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