I would like to find the Swedish birth records for George Thompson [KWJW-TKK]. According to the info
He is supposed to have left Sweden at the age of 10 to be a sailor. A couple of years later he returned for a short time then left again and didn't return. He ended up settling in England where he married, joined the church and later emigrated to the United States on 25 Jan 1852.
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Records in Sweden were kept on the local level, so you'll need to look in England and U.S. records to determine what his Swedish hometown was before looking in Swedish records (in the tree, he's listed as born in Göteborg och Bohus, which is a county*). You can find suggestions as to how to find the town of origin at the following page: https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/Sweden_Finding_Town_of_Origin
* There are some parishes within the county of Göteborg och Bohus that include "Göteborg" in their name, so if you believe Göteborg was also his home city, he could be from one of these parishes:
- Göteborg
- Göteborgs Amiralitet
- Göteborgs Gamlestad
- Göteborgs Garnison
- Göteborgs Gustavi
- Göteborgs Haga
- Göteborgs Karl Johan
- Göteborgs Kristine
- Göteborgs Masthugg
- Göteborgs Mosaiska
- Göteborgs Tyska
You can see more information about the county and various collections that may prove useful at https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/G%C3%B6teborg_och_Bohus_County,_Sweden_Genealogy
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