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Comment by Swedish on February 10, 2011 at 10:55am

I do know a man that do reserche on Lekåsa.He had several relatives that moved from Lekåsa to USA.I have been sending him a messege and askt him to join this group.If you all are lucky mabye you all do a reserche in the same family and if not he can tell a lot from his reserches of Lekåsa.Mabye he can tell what farms you are looking for in Lekåsa.I hope that he will join us.

Comment by Lynn Anderson on February 10, 2011 at 10:28am

The three "extra" Swedish vowels are important because they are distinct letters not just accents. They also sort at the END of the alphabet so if you are looking in a Swedish index they come after Z.

Your Windows will simulate a Swedish keyboard. You can install an additional keyboard thru control panel. I have US English, Swedish and Norwegian keyboards installed and switch between them as needed. You have to know where the letters are located on what keys. I have trouble finding the special characters ( - = + / ?, etc.) so switch back to En. The switch appears on the Windows Tray at the bottom of my screen. Keys are    Å to left of P,   Ö to left of L,  Ä to left of Ö.     If you need only a few letters, copy them from another document.   Also, see language tutorial in the Genealogy Wise group, Swedish Genealogy. (There are other ways to type the Swedish letters as well.)

Comment by Steven D Koehler on February 10, 2011 at 10:12am

Kristen,

I also have relatives from Lekåsa, Barne-Åsaka and Fåglum so am quite familiar with the communities.  Some of my mother's first cousins, in fact, lived at Baltorp.

 

If you want to share the information you have amassed to date (the birthdates and confirmation date) , I'll see if I can pinpoint the family in the online records available from Genline.  Once you get your foot in the door via the husförhörslängder (household examination rolls), it should be a breeze to extend your research.

Comment by Lynn Anderson on February 10, 2011 at 9:59am

Kristen,

Svensk Ortförteckning, 1965 (This a guide

book for Swedish post offices and train

officials. Shows every littl place with

descriptions.)

Both of your place names lie near the

southern edge of Skaraborgs län about 30 km

south east of Trollhättan. This in in the

area at the south end between the two major

lakes in Sweden.

Baltorp   farms and a saw mill in Essunga

kommun near Barne-Åsaka church (looks like a

closer church than Lekåsa. Also Fåglum church

near by).

Skattegården  Around 60 places with this name

in Skaraborgs län (SKBG) alone!!!  The two most

likely per your information.
1   farms in Essunga kommun (4 km to Fåglum).
2   farm in Essunga kommun (near Lekåsa

church).
For reference,kommuns have changed in recent

years... mostly been consolidated. (Kommuns are similar to townships in some states with some local governing power. They have nothing to do with record keeping.) There is

also a village called Essunga with a post office

and train station (1965). Google map and satellite

work well in this area. If you look at the shadows you can identify a church by the tower.

If you have not yet found your needed vital records, you may

have to check Barne-Åsaka church and Fåglum

church as well as Lekåsa church. They are all

close to your spots.

Comment by Kristen Holquist Waite on February 10, 2011 at 9:57am

Thank you, Lynn! I haven't figured out yet how to make the Swedish characters on the web...just in MS Word. Is Lekåsa no longer an active parish?

I do have some records in hand; they are Immigration certificates (Flyttningsbevis) issued by the pastor of Lekåsa parish, so I have birth dates and even one baptism and confirmation date, I think. I am wondering how I can find out more about what other family members there might have been (there is no mention of their parents), or might possibly be now.

Comment by Lynn Anderson on February 9, 2011 at 8:21pm

Hi Kristen, welcome to the group.

Lekåsa is (was) a parish in Skaraborg just east of highway E20.  My KAK atlas (scale  1:400,000) shows the parish church but not the other place names. A web search of -Baltorp- shows a location just a few km west of the church in a field. Baltorp is likely a farm name. Skattegården is likely also a farm... sound like an institutional farm (translation    tax farm?) Help, Annelie.

If I get to the library, I will check Svensk Ortförteckningen to see what it says about Baltorp. This is a rural area.   If you what to see the church do a search on   the name below with the Swedish characters.  You will see other nearby churches. Have you found your family records?

Lekåsa kyrka.

Comment by Kristen Holquist Waite on February 9, 2011 at 7:03pm

I have family (great-grandparents and siblings) from Lekasa parish in Skaraborg, listed as from Baltorp and from Skattegarden. Are they all in the same area?

Comment by Annelie Jonsson on January 6, 2011 at 1:01pm

It's the SAKA register you ask about? They are not online and maybe never will be.

Kurt Andersson in Skara done extracts from the rolls in Växjö, for Skaraborg. They were at the Skara research library for a long time until a couple of years ago when they decided to use the building for other things such as touristburea and there was no more room for files. Kurt had to relocate them as otherwise they had been burned. The are all now in Hössna at Anna-Lena Hultman's emigrantcentrum Konkordiahuset.

Comment by Swedish on January 6, 2011 at 12:33pm

I know about all serche ways in Sweden Annelie, becourse I am Swedish, and I am living in Skaraborgslän.I think you do a grate jobb.Me and my sister now look for our lady in USA, but I must say that Swedish church records are better then US.Census.Do the churches in USA allso have a register on line to serche in ?

Comment by Annelie Jonsson on January 6, 2011 at 12:13pm

There are registers about emigrants from Sweden, Emiweb.eu is such a site on the net you can search. You have to pay a fee of 500 SEK per year to get access. Otherwise the emigrant registers are just on CD/DVD. The major and most important CD Emibas, is sold out and no reprint are in sight.

I think I'm one of the few in Sweden who make a data base of emigrants and their families.There is one more Anneli who do the same in Dalsland. Why it's so it's that it take so much time and you have to access to the right sources to put together the info to one. I have been working on my data bas in about five years. A lot of work remain. Over 10 000 persons emigrated from Falbygden.

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