donutsweeper: (capt salute)
donutsweeper ([personal profile] donutsweeper) wrote2013-03-29 02:06 pm

Swedish?

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.

[identity profile] donutsweeper.livejournal.com 2013-03-30 07:36 pm (UTC)(link)
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.

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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.)