We can help you find your Swedish ancestors
Where would you like to start?
Have you already done some research yourself, and would like some help to continue?
Is all you have a name, a date, and a birthplace? We usually don't need more than that to find your Swedish ancestors and build your family tree.
There is a lot of information available in the Swedish parish books and house examination records. We can help you form a better picture of who your ancestors were. Maybe you would be interested to know where your great-grandmother came from, where your great-grandfather worked and where the two got married? Perhaps you would like to know more about life in Sweden back then, to try and understand why your Swedish relatives made the decision over a hundred years ago, to break up from everything they knew and move to America, in search of a better life.
If you would like to know if you have living relatives in Sweden we can help you find them.
We can translate letters and documents for you. Cost: $45/hour.
How we can help you:
If you have a name, date and place of birth of a Swedish ancestor born after 1850 chances are very good that we can find him or her. There are cases where it gets more difficult, sometimes church books are missing or were lost in a fire. Also children were sometimes listed with Father unknown.
The initial search is always free of charge.
We want to make sure that there is a good chance we can find your Swedish ancestors, so after this first check we will get back to you and report our findings and what the chances are that the continuing research will be successful.
After the initial research:
At this point you can decide how far back you want to go in time, and how many hours you would like us to use for the research.
In-depth report
If you would like to know more about your family's history than just name, place and date, we also write reports with more in-depth information and details, so that you can get to know them better: siblings, line of work, places where they lived, life events like marriages and baptisms, godparents, cause of death, estate inventories at death, movement within Sweden, passenger records for crossing to America etc. Any interesting facts that we can find about your ancestors. It also includes information about the area of Sweden where they lived, as well as some historical context for Sweden at the time.
This way you get to know your ancestors better but maybe you can also learn something about yourself. After all, we all are the result of choices made by our forefathers and foremothers.
Price list
45 USD per hour
We also do work on a retainer basis, where you define what you need help with specifically and how many hours you want us to dedicate to this. Price per hour is 45 US$, but for retainers we usually give discounts - projects over 10 hours are usually 35 US$ per hour.
You decide how many hours you would like us to do research, and we will report back to you after these hours are used. You can then decide if you want us to go further, and for how many hours.
What you get:
Your family tree with names, dates and places of birth and death, as well as links and/or photos of the records found.
You can also ask us to do an in-depth report as outlined above.