I have been trying to find information about my Swedish ancesters. I have found birth records and the ship?

manifest for them dated 1901. Is there anyone out there who can look find the marriage information of Martinius Gustafsson and Erika Carolina Troedsson? It is not on the DDSS site yet. He was born 2-15-1873 in Denmark and she was born 5-18-1877. Martinius also went by the name Martin. Other surnames he used were Appelquist and Stevenson. Stevenson is the name they chose when the came to the US because it sounded more "American". Martinius and or his father Bengt Johan Gustafsson were political refugees. I can't find much solid evidence about this subject because their names were so common and there are soooooooooo many with the same names because of their naming practices. Something else I am so desperate (ha ha) to find is a copy or their obituaries. She died November 1913 of TB. I have an obituary that is in Swedish but parts of it are missing. I am sure there was also an English version in the paper. She lived in Ottawa Kansas when she died. He died in 1949 Franklin Ks|||Would the Swedish Genealogical Society be able to help, do you think? The subject is very popular in Sweden with somewhere in the region of 90 Family History Societies around the Country (compared with 3 in Spain!).


The official name of the governing body of the socieities is the Federation of Swedish Genealogical Societies or Geanealogiska Foreningden. The last address I have - which may be out of date now - is Box 2029, S-103 11, Stockholm, Sweden.


The last address I have for the Danish Family History Society is Sammenslutningen AF Slaegtshistoriske Foreninger, Skovstien 22, DK-880 Viborg, Denmark


A query on the web might bring up a more recent address and possibly a web site.|||Do you have any relatives who might give you some clues? It would be helpful if you could get the name the city or village where they were married, and where each was born. The town halls in most villages over there have good records. My aunt did a family history 30 years ago. She started with interviewing lots of cousins. She was able to get plenty of old letters that had been saved. Then she went to Sweden and Denmark and searched the town records. Of course, it helped that she could speak both languages. Like Martin and Erika, my grandfather was Danish, and my grandmother was Swedish. Her first name was Karolina, changed in the U.S. to Caroline.





As for death information, check with the newspaper nearest the town where they died. If they don't have the information, check with the local library. Often they have newspapers on microfilm. The city or town clerk would have death records. You might be able to find church records in that town, too.





Census records are also available on-line, for every town in the U.S., at ten-year intervals.





The Mormon Church keeps records that are extremely comprehensive, and they have genealogy centers in many places around the country. Not just on Mormons, either.