scandinavian ancestry

Happy New Year and Gott Nytt År everyone!

I want to thank all my clients for a very exciting and interesting year. I don't know exactly how many families I have re-connected in 2009 but it's been a very nice and very adventurous year. I also want to thank my 'angels and elves' that have helped me when I have not had the time to perform all the research myself. I don't know where I would be today without you. I am so grateful! I wish you all a very Happy New Year and we'll do lots of 'miracles' next year.

I will add some new topics on this website the next couple of weeks and one page will be dedicated the emigrants from the Falköping area in Sweden. Read more about that on the News - Nyheter page.

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Welcome to my Scandinavian Ancestry site. This site is about me, my family and my Swedish roots. And it's also for you. Let me tell you what I can do for you in your search for the past.

I have been interested in genealogy and history in general since I was a very young child. My paternal grandmother (see photo below), Selma Persson (born Pehrsdotter) was born in Farstorp, Skåne, Sweden, in 1885, passed away in 1970 (on Valentines Day) when I was only 10 years old.  As my father talked about his mother, I realized that not only did I have grandparents, but my grandparents had parents and their parents also had parents. I had become aware of the concept of generations, descendants and ancestors.  

My grandmother was 84 years old when she passed away and to me she had always been an elderly, quiet and quite severe older lady with white hair. I realized that my father and I, and my whole family, were all a part of this, of her family. Of the history. And our family tree had so many branches that I did not (nor did my father) know anything about.

My father often talked about his father and his paternal grandmother and grandfather. He did not know exactly where they came from, only that they were from “Småland” somewhere. In those days that was 'far away'. I realized that my paternal grandfather (whom I never met) came from somewhere that my father never knew about and I had to find out from where.

I started filling out my family tree little by little from conversations with members of the family, my father of course, my maternal grandfather, I was happy to have him until he was 102 years old, some detailed research and very old and dusty documents. 

I kept hoping that my father's memory one day would be clear again and that we together would find his past. That never happened. But we sure spent hours and hours talking about his childhood and his younger days. He loved to tell stories from his younger days (and some were so good that they will remain with me forever…). I eventually found his grandparents and their origins but I never got to complete his and my son's tree before my beloved  father passed away. It was a great loss to us, and it changed our life in so many ways.

                   I dedicate this site and my services to you, my father;

                                 Per Rune Ebert Friskh, 1925 -2004

Not everyone has the passion, the time, the resources, the knowledge or the patience to 'live' with genealogy. I do. And I do have a way of ‘thinking out of the box’ which is necessary at all times, especially when you have to do with ‘brick walls’, or 'broken branches, as I prefer to call them. That's why I do this every day, I find lost relatives, dead and alive. I find 'broken branches'.

                                     Welcome to Scandinavian Ancestry! 

Sanna

Selma, b. 1885, Farstorp, Sweden.