Researching Your Scandinavian Ancestors Part 2: Locality Research and Repositories

Which Rasmus Gudmundsson is ours? Separating Identity using Swedish Tax and Church Records In part one of this four-part series on Scandinavian research, we discussed patronymics and naming traditions common in Scandinavian genealogy. We also identified two research objectives as we are trying to uniquely identify Rasmus Gudmundsson, born in Malmöhus, Sweden, around 1719. However, before we can start researching, we need to understand which records are available for Malmöhus County in the 1700s and […]