Could someone please post a link to a map of southern Sweden or instructions as to how to distinguis
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To help with my own question, I have people in Loderup, Borrsby, Hagestad, but then also listings for Kristianstad and Ystad and I am not sure if those are townships, states or counties...
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@Nordic Countries Genealogy Research can you help Julie with her need for a map?
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What I would really love is someone who had 15 minutes or so just to answer some general questions about patronymics and expectations for families in the 1800's. I have started and have a fair amount of information but several conflicts and don't understand what is "probable" and what is not. I am currently serving a mission for our church in New Zealand and am on my own so I would love to talk on What's App once in a great while- not suck up a lot of time. Tusen tak! Julie
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Julie, Here are some suggestions. I assume your family came from Denmark. If I am wrong, let me know. If a father's name was Anders Hansen and he had a son Jens born 1828 or earlier, his name would be Jens the son of Anders in other words Jens Andersen. If they lived in a city, a child may take the father's last name Hansen as early as 1860. You would have to look for this child both as Jens Andersen or Hansen. If he was born in a rural parish he would be named Jens Andersen as the change did not take place before 1860. This is a general rule, but as not everyone followed this rule it is best to search for a child under both names. Hope this helps.
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Julie, I used to use the Genealogical Guidebook & Atlas of Sweden. Unfortunately the book is out of print, but the library has a full-text copy online. Then I discovered the research wiki for Sweden: https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Sweden_Genealogy. If you scroll down the page a bit, there's a clickable map of Sweden, showing all the counties. The standard for a place name in FamilySearch is Parish, County, Country. For example, I have an ancestor born in Roasjö, Älvsborg, Sweden. I looked up her birth record in the Swedish Archives, and the farm name is in the column to the right of her parents' names. It's not part of the FamilySearch standard place name, but you need it to find the family in the Household Examination books. If I can't read it (and I usually can't), I go to the wiki page for the parish (they're all listed, with a clickable map, on the county page), and that page has a list of place names. Given the printed list, I can usually decipher the handwriting.
If I have no clue where a place is, such as Loderup, I go to a site called Falling Rain (http://fallingrain.com/world/SW/index.html) scroll down to the list of places and select starting letters until I find it. It tells me that Loderup is in Skane. I put "Skane Sweden" into Google, which informed me that it's actually spelled Skåne. This is province in Sweden, and looking at a map, I see that Malmöhus and Kristianstad appear to be the counties. Looking in Kristianstad County, I find a parish named Löderup. I don't know if this is your Loderup, but it might be a place to look.
Varsågod,
Elisabeth
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As you enter place names in Family Tree, remember that the more specific the place name, the better identification for the person that will be. Always add as much information as you have even though the "standardized" place names are often quite limited and incomplete. So even though the standards are often only Parish, County, Country, you can almost always do much better than that. At a minimum include where in the parish they lived as: Farm, Parish, County, Country or City, Parish, County, Country or even Section of Farm, Farm, Parish, County, Country or Address, City, Parish, County, Country.
If you have some spare time on your hands, and really want to get to know the country, the best online map is published by the Swedish government and can be found here:
https://kso.etjanster.lantmateriet.se/?lang=en#
It does take some time to get familiar with this map, but it is very complete. Note that you search for place names on it not under "Search" but under "Placename." Also, as you search in the map, you do have to use the proper Swedish spellings with the correct vowels. It really helps to use the "Begins with" feature to enter just the first couple of letters of a name.
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@Julie A Tanner, as of just a couple of weeks ago, there's actually a new option to book an online Sweden research consultation. If you go to https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Family_History_Library_Online_Consultations and read the information, then click on the blue "Book your Online Consultation" button, you can select Sweden and fill out the bookings page. You can then meet with a research consultant for Swedish research, such as Liv, online if that is a better fit for you than asking your question here. The research consultations are limited to 20 minutes. I hope that helps!
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