Oh my! I thought the reference to 1833 would be where he came from or what he did, but not that he had stolen something. Nils is my 3rd great grandfather, born in 1806. He is the only one I cannot find a birth record for although I have scoured several parish books and indexes. I found one that I thought was him, but then it turned out that Nils had died a couple years after being born.
Yes, I am working on my family history. My mother who was born in Connecticut in 1931 is 100% Swedish as all four of her grandparents were born in Sweden. That makes me 50% Swedish. And when I have done different DNA testings, my origins are up to 68% from Scandinavia going back hundreds of years. We visited Sweden once as a family back in the 1980s. I would like to go back again in the next few years.
I have some excellent pictures of my relatives in Sweden before they came to the US in the late 1800s and early 1900s. And I have many other great pictures of them after they settled in Connecticut.
I have found three so far that were illegitimate or oäkta. Seems like a lot of young people lived on those farms together and it was in evitable that illegitimate children would be born.
I have more records I would like you to translate. Let me know if this is too much or I'm sending them too quickly. I respect your time and so appreciate your help. I speak Spanish very well and can read Portuguese to a point (and I am 25% Portuguese), but Swedish has been more difficult for me. I try to use the different websites that help with translation, but there were so many abbreviations used in the Swedish records that I get stuck often.
Thanks again for your help.
Paul
