Do you have an interest in ANY of the Nordic countries? Come join us in the Nordic Project!

Question

The Nordic Project is hard at work building teams that are improving profiles for the Nordic countries, and we would love for you to join us!  The Project covers all things Nordic, so no matter where your research interests lay, there is a team for you!

To join, we ask that you:

1. Read the Project Page
2. Check out the teams we have to join: Nordic Project - Country Sub-Projects
3. Add Nordic to your followed tags along with the individual countries you are interested in helping.
4. Answer below introducing yourself and stating your research interests. NOTE: Comments left on this thread will be read, responded to and hidden from view.
5. Read and respond to the introductory email that will be sent upon receiving the Nordic badge.

Thank you!

Missy Berryann
Leader, Nordic Project

Answer 1

Interested in joining the Norway project. Most of my ancestors are Scandinavian and some lines go pretty far back. Currently working on getting all lines found in the 1801 census.

Comments

Hello R Hagen,

Thank you for your interest in the Nordic Project! The Nordic Project badge has been added to your profile and a private message will be sent to you. I will add you to join the Norwegian subproject.

Welcome!

Missy 

Answer 2

Hello - I have great grandparents on both my maternal and paternal lines from Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. Many emigrated to the United States, and I have inherited several photos and documents, looking forward to updating our one tree! Kelly

Comments

Kelly,

Thank you for your post! I want to make sure you would like to join the Nordic Project. Please let me know. Thank you!

Missy 

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Hello, Yes, I would like to join. I have a lot of sources to add, and in the past, I have only been updating my private Ancestry page. However, I want to expand my knowledge of the region and provide info for others to connect their families as well.

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Dear Kelly,

Wonderful. I look forward to working with you!  Which country are you most familiar with? I work with Swedish records, because my maternal great grandfather was 100% Swedish. I have some Norwegian cousins too, because my 2nd great Swedish uncle moved to Norway and had all his children there. I am not familiar with Norwegian records as much though, because I work mostly with Swedish records.

I look forward to having you join the Project. If you need help with your research, we have some great Nordic researchers. Please be sure to read the email I send you.

Welcome!

Missy 

Answer 3

Hi again, since there were issues with my previous post I thought I'd try again!

I'd like to join, specifically the Sweden sub-project. I am American but my LNAB (Moberger) goes back to Sweden. My great-great-grandparents and many of their siblings came to the US from Sweden in the 1890s and settled in Massachusetts, where most of my paternal family still lives today.

I came into possession of an extensively cited genealogical study of the Moberger families compiled by a distant Swedish cousin in the 1980s, which I'm using as a starting point to build out the skeleton of the Moberger tree in WikiTree before going out digging for my own sources. So far I've mostly focused my source research on the immigrants and American descendants, since I speak no Swedish at all... but I'd like to learn how to read records so I can get better information for the earlier family in Sweden as well. I also know that I will need to locate reliable primary sources to add the pre-1700s roots of the Moberger tree and keep going back as far as possible.

Eventually I would like to do a one-name study of Mobergers, since it seems to be a relatively uncommon surname, as compared to the more common "Moberg". Thank you!!

Comments

Hello Allison,

Your name sounds familiar, but I am unable to find your other post. Thank you for your interest in the Nordic Project! The Nordic Project badge has been added to your profile and a private message will be sent to you. I will add you to join the Sweden subproject.

Welcome!

Missy 

Answer 4

Can I join the Nordic (Swedish) Project even though I will not be able to communicate via any other channels than the site itself, G2G and occasional e-mails? 

I am logged in to Wikitree almost every day, but because of reasons I do not use Discord, Google Groups etc.

For the moment I work mainly on my "own" tree (Västerbottens and Kalmar län. It now spans almost 7 generations. I did not upload it as a gedcom, I wrote it manually and WikiTree is my only genealogical workspace. But I also do a bit of organizing and cleaning up other Swedish profiles that I stumble upon, mainly in Västerbottens and Kalmar län. Fixing incomplete locations, spelling mistakes and other minor errors.

I want to be honest with me in the long run aiming for a pre-1500 cerification. Partly because I recently found an ancestor connection that linked me directly to a part of the Tree (The Blix family) that is not very well sourced and as the remains of an early import in need of a critical review; and some of the lines of this family stretches before 1500. But also because there are many more Swedish pre-1500 profiles that would benefit from more active checking ups.

I am born in and still live in Sweden. I have an academic background (mainly archaeology and ethnology), I can navigate Riksarkivet with ease and can also read the oldest church records relatively easily. Additionally I have been working a bit with Lantmäteriet's historical maps and historical estate data. Some years ago I was very active on Swedish Wikipedia and am quite familiar with common Wiki routines. My main motivation is that I love to be able to make things better.

If you could accept me as a member I'll be happy to contribute.