Swedish?

[donutsweeper]

I know it's incredibly unlikely, but is anyone on my flist able to read Swedish? Especially handwritten, older Swedish? I have a genealogical document (a screencap from a register listing names, births and places) from the mid-1800s I could use some help with.

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[haldane.livejournal.com]

I don't, but I do know someone Finnish, who has functional Swedish, so I could ask them. (Finland spent much of its history being a province of Sweden, to the point where many places have two names, the Swedish one and the Finnish one.)

No results guaranteed, but if you don't get any better offers then I can ask for you.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the offer, there are still some places I can try, but if those don't pan out I might do that. Thanks a lot.

[awanderingbard.livejournal.com]

You could try translateplease. I don't know how active it is, but you can pretty much ask them to do anything.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I didn't know about that comm, thanks. I did find learn_swedish, but if that doesn't work I'll try there. Although I think I'll put off asking anywhere until Monday, I assume Easter weekend is not a big online weekend for most people.

[tygerc.livejournal.com]

My Swedish sucks, but I know people from Sweden and could ask from one of them.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

Would you? That would be wonderful! Actually, if you know any at all you might be able to help. I have a feeling it's a fairly simple thing, just some names and dates.



The last name before the space, Carl Frederic, is the person I was looking for, and the date matches what I'd found for his birthday (4 Feb 1859) and that he was born in Nye Parish, but when I was looking more carefully I realized that's his whole family. I had some info on his brother, Nils Peter, with an estimated birthdate that matches and I had an Americanized version of his parents' names, Carl John and Mary Catherine and those names definitely match the picture as well. I can't make out their full names with Swedish spelling or their dates (it looks like Carl's is 15/18 which makes no sense?) or where they are from or the birthdate of the sister (it looks like she is Emilia Regina Mathilda?)

Long story short, I was just trying to get translated as much about the Carlson family as possible. (Is the proper spelling actually Carlson? I can't tell.)

[karaokegal.livejournal.com]

You might try checking in with athenais. She is taking
Swedish lessons and might be able to help or knows someone who can.

[donutsweeper.livejournal.com]

I wound up discovering learn_swedish and posted my question there and other than one thing (the mother's maiden name) they were able to parse out everything from the document, but thank you!