Wednesday, May 22, 2019

More Swedish Genealogy

After posting about using the Swedish Digital Archive to read old church records, I decided to use some of the Swedish genealogy on-line sites to find information regarding my second-great-grandmother, Kerstin Andersdotter.  I had her birth and death dates, so I felt I had an advantage.  She was born on 10 November 1836, the question was where; and died on 10 May 1905, in Torhamn Parish.  After several false leads, I found her.
  She was born in the hamlet/village/populated place named Konungshamn (King's Harbor) in Torhamn Parish, Blekinge, Sweden.  Her father was a registered Boats Man, who served the hamlet of Konungshamn.  He was Anders Eriksson Warning Ifrig, who was born 22 October 1812 and died 31 January 1897.  He entered the Naval service on 14 March 1834, and served in companies 28 and 31.  Before 1845, her worked with the BBG 2nd Boatman Company, number 98; and after 1945 with the BBN 1st Boatman Company, number 98.  He was retired by the Navy on 28 June 1871 due to his age (59), and had served for 37 years.  Anders married in Torhamn Parish on 16 May 1834, to Lena Jonasdotter.  Lena was born in Lindon, Vissefjarden Parish, Kalmar County, Sweden on 13 April 1804; she and her younger sister Stina moved to Torhamn Parish in 1817. Kerstin was the second (and eldest surviving) child of six siblings. Her parents died in Konungshamn, with her mother passing 5 years before her father.
   I have only been able to find that Lena Jonasdotter was the child of Jonas Hakansson, born in 1769, and Kjierstin Jonasdotter, born in 1768. Lena was the fifth born of seven children.  In 1818, she and her younger sister Stina, were living with a farmer named Anders Trulsson and his wife Elin in Torhamn Parish.
   Anders, Kerstin's father, was the son of Erik Andersson Walberg Ifrig, who was born on 25 June 1785 in Ramdala Parish in Blekinge County.  He, too, was a Boats Man for Konungshamn, and served from 2 January 1810 through 1821.  He passed away in Konungshamn.  He married Karin Larsdotter, who was born on 2 April 1779 in Bjorkenas, Torhamn Parish; she, too, died in Konungshamn in 1836.  They had three children.
   Erik's father, Anders Eticksson Ry, was born in 1746 in Ramdala Parish in Blekinge; he, too, was a Boats Man for Konungshamn in Torhamn Parish.  On 18 October 1767 he married Ingri Zakrisdotter in Ramdala Parish.  Ingri was born on 9 June 1746 in Ramdala. They had seven children together.  After retiring, Anders and Ingri moved to Tornby in Ramdal Parish, and both passed away there.
    Karin Larsdotter, who married Erik Ifrig, was the daughter of another Boats Man, Lars Jonasson Birman Bjorkelund, who served the town of Bjorkenas in Torhamn Parish.  Lars was born in 1734 and passed away on 17 August 1811 in Ronneby Parish in Blekinge County.  On 2 April 1776 he married Maria Svensdotter in Torhamn Parish.  Maria was born in 1747 and passed away in 1829. Lars and Maria were the parents of four children....
   I have a couple more generations of information going further back in time, but I won't bother you with it.

   Still seeking more information, but I promise not to bore you like this again....

 do want to say that the website https://www.familysearch.org  is a wonderful tool.  It is run by the Church of Latter Day Saints, but they do not use your access to their website for religious or conversion purposes.  They have tons of records from around the world that are available at no charge (free!) for any person's use.  You can build your own family tree on the website at no cost or charge.  You can attach any and all records found for a specific person to that person (I have my grandfather's World War I and II Draft Registrations, which include his signatures, to his record).  If you enter information concerning a living person - me for instance - then whoever enters that information is the only person who can see or view that information.  Only I can look at the information I have entered regarding myself, my sister, and the living members of our family. 
  I just wanted you to know, if you're interested in building your own family tree, I highly recommend the Family Search.org website....

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