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Oscar von Sydow
Oscar von Sydow (1873-1936) was a Swedish politician who served as Prime Minister of Sweden from February 23 to October 13, 1921. He was one of the people that was instrumental in removing the death penalty in Sweden.
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Kalmar stadsförsamling AI:81 (1871-1887) Image 129 / page 125 (AID: v22721.b129.s125, NAD: SE/VALA/00177)
there is a comment about what happened with the children after the parents died
Big pic
Thanks Eva.... do you think 172 is what he is paid?
Looks like we have brother Henric Walter von Sydow born 1864 13/11 emigrating to Amerika 1885....
Kalmar stadsförsamling AI:80 (1871-1886) Image 183 / page 353 (AID: v22720.b183.s353, NAD: SE/VALA/00177)
And if we trust Geni.com pass away in Chicago 18 dec 1938
No, I don't think that's what he paid. You're kidding, aren't you?
172 is the property number. And was in this case not too hard to find in the books for Kalmar. Towns can be hopeless.
According to the English version of Wikipedia: "Oscar von Sydow was the son of Henrik August von Sydow, a magistrate's secretary and Euphrosyne Maria Modin. He was born in Kalmar and raised in Norrland. In 1890, he passed his maturity examination and proceeded to study Law at Uppsala University. In 1894, he graduated with a degree in civil service."
But all this, his marriage info, and children are in the already cited Swedish Wikipedia!
Should we duplicate Wikipedia? I think why not update the Wikipedia version and just have hardcore genealogy information in WikiTree.... with church books references...
FYI: I feel that Wikipedia is weak on referencing sources in Swedish Church books so I started a discussion at Wikipedia how this should be done better
see Wikipedia:Wikipediafrågor#Citera_svenska_kyrkböcker_med_eller_utan_mall_och_hur_i_WikiData
>> bio in English and a bio in Swedish
I disagree Do we need that?!?!
One excellent source that is scanned about him is Hvar 8:e dag see Runeberg its one page written in No 51 20 sep 1914
About him and that he has his roots in a Nobel family i Germany
I did a Google search
oscar fredrik sydow +site:runeberg.org/
SVAR is the national Archive of Sweden and they have more Letter collections. Looks like 38 letter
Search Name: Sydow Oscar Fredrik Birth year 1873
Result Most of those letter can be found at different archives e.g.
Archive Sjöholmsarkivet II. Lewenhauptska släktarkivet. (RA/720791.002)
Archive Ivar Afzelius' samling. (RA/720471)
I change borth second son Erik looks like born 1912 sep 2
19120902-0575 von Sydow, Erik Hazeliusbacken 18 115 21 Stockholm Död 5/12 1997. Folkbokförd i Oscar, Stockholms stad (Stockholms län, Uppland). Född 2/9 1912 i Göteborgs Vasa (Göteborgs och Bohus län, Västergötland).Gift man (20/1 1940). -------------- Födelseförsamling i källan: Vasa (Göteborgs och Bohus län)
Källor: RTB 97 / SPAR 92f
@Anne
I think doing things like this could be a possibility for people with local knowledge to explain for other people what can be done...
I passed by the oldest genealogy society in Sweden and they have a lot of books and also they have shelves with private family research done and also from newspaper birth, marriage, death information etc....
What I started with was on Category:Sweden_Family_Brick_Walls_Solved added people and a small description what was done and maybe also how
Grave information
Did a video how I found his grave and also how I used Facebook to request a picture of the grave
As Wikidata seems to have a lot of grave photos I did this generic list of all people in WikiTree that we have connected with a picture of a grave see G2G
@Eva re modest maybe a good sign....or maybe Swedish style of law of Jante
Found my mothers biological fathers grave last year in Beograd and feels like his priority was his own grave before caring about a child in Sweden....
WikiTree should have a possibility to generate reports with picture of graves in your family tree and see how they changed...
There are a lot of very non-Jante graves at Östra.
@Eva: Nice pictures
http://tinyurl.com/gpyysw4
All people in Wikidata on Östra
http://tinyurl.com/h6ewxw6
Pictures of grave and person if they exists
http://tinyurl.com/hkocez2
Both Digital Museum and Porträttfynd are linked on the Swedish Parish pages
@Anne doing Swedish genealogy and when you have done your homework you have a timeline with all the books
@AnneB and Sir William A draft of a page about von Sydow family that you could have as a start and also please correct my english in the space page...
Space:Von_Sydow_FamilyTree
@Anne using Space pages and include on many pages is one reason why a Wiki is good for genealogy
I spend this evening at the Genealogy Society (GF) in Stockholm learning more about best practise regarding citing sources. GF has a good library and more books about the von Sydow family see video They also had communication with The von Sydow family association that was founded of Von_Sydow-8 see http://vonsydow.se/slaktforeningen Books found Book Släkten von Sydow i Sverige In one of the books it was pictures from many people in the 1920 and 1940 on a meeting..... things like this makes genealogy easy ;-) big pic And on the next page who is on the picture.... big pic
I guess Mary v. S. f. Wijk is Wijk-15 the wife of Von_Sydow-8
Another good Swedish source is to be member in Genealogiska föreningen. They have some archives like old passport register (you needed passport to travel inside Sweden) and also they have birth and death notices scanned online for members
A check on von Sydow I found his death notice
And other articles
Full size
Small summary we got 37 sources for one profile Von_Sydow-8..... most because he was famous but finding sources in Sweden is I understand rather easy compared to other part of the world... and you can easy get 5-10 sources for a WikiTree profile after 1800
If someone is interested we have Alicia Vikanders Vikander-2 roots that needs some more care http://www.wikitree.com/genealogy/Vikander-Family-Tree-2
Wikipedia Joe_Hill I grow up in Gävle were he was born.
No profile on WikiTree today.