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Genealogy has become a very engrossing hobby of mine since my retirement.  While researching my ancestors I've come across some information that could be of value to other genealogists.  Those resources are presented in this section.

The first two will be of particular interest to genealogists pursuing immigrant ancestors coming from Sweden and settling in Northern Michigan, especially Gogebic County and Bessemer.

One resource provides instruction in the use of DISBYT, a very large database of Swedish persons comprised of the GEDCOM submissions of many, many researchers, Pono included.

I have retrieved the bouppteckning documentation for several of my Swedish ancestors and translated them to English.  These wonderful documents contain the estate inventory of a deceased person and lots of information about the heirs.

The Pictorial Dictionary lists the Swedish names of objects found in the bouppteckningar with the English translation and pictures of the objects.  The pictures are shown in small thumbnails which link to .pdf files that allow for zooming in to examine details.  The enlarged version often provides more information on the given object.