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If you were to visit today, this is the Swedish neighborhood where the Wessman family lived in the 1880s through the 1890s. It appears to h...

Amanda is buried at the base of this tree.  If you look closely, you can see the orange flag marking her headstone.   After several...

Maret Olofsdotter or Olsdotter was Johan Bengtsson Wessman's mother. As mentioned previously, women in Scandinavia did not take the nam...

The last time we were looking at the Swedish records, we were looking at Johan Bengtsson Wessman's entries in the Husförhör (clerical ...

The Swedish Lutheran Church kept a variety of Church records including a church census showing all members of each parish ( Husförhör ), an...

Amanda and Johan Wessman and child. With the unexplained discrepancy in the ages of Johan Bengtsson Wessman's grandparents from Mon...

I realized yesterday morning that I am going about the presentation of the Wessman genealogy in a haphazard fashion. What I am doing is...

A couple of weeks ago we saw the birth record for Pehr Andersson . (Also "Per.") Pehr (or Per) and his wife Anna are Johan Be...

An old house at a historical open-air museum in Tanum, Sweden. From Christophe Dayer at Flickr. After posting several rather technic...

I haven't done any work on Amanda Mathilda (or Matilda) Hall's family and wanted to know how difficult it was. First, I brought...

One of the Swedish church records that is useful for genealogical research is the clerical survey or census known as  Husförhör . The F...

Just one record today. This is the birth record for our Wessman ancestor Per Andersson of Forshälla, the father of Bengt Persson and grandf...

Yesterday's post with the birth record for Henry Wessman gave a clue for finding his parent's marriage record. I read through the Gö...