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I've been adding occupations and more recent ancestors Nystrom + Swedish lineage, from a copy of one of three hand-written family trees done by my late father-in-law, Carl Axel Nystrom, b. Aug 7, 1917 d. 2008. Carl visited Sweden in summer 1973 to visit with his and the Swanson family relatives.
I am also following up on what I'm learning in the Sweden project including the database Smedskivan. (Thank you Eva Ekeblad.) I learned from Eva about the ancestry occupation patterns of smiths producing the iron by the old methods - as she references this database compiled by ancestry pros and how the smiths moved around a lot.
I have two questions:
#1 - Occupations of Swedish ancestors / family tree transcriptions
I have occupations listed in a family tree including a smith, a smelter, a miner, etc. listed in our Nystrom family tree, along with farmers, soldiers and two mystery occupations. One was cleared up today as an error passed down in a family tree. I learned that the “Master page” occupation listed for Hans Hammarstrom, b. 1779 should instead read as Second Master Blacksmith, and that there were no "page" or nobility connections in the Hammarstrom line.
The remaining mystery occupation is that of “strether.” Is it stretcher, or a transcription error? It is listed as the occupation for Anders Fredrik Nilsson (Fredrik) "Fredric" Nyström - Nyström-392 . His son Karl Fredrik became a smelter.
#2 - Pre-1700 relatives - Swedish project - Ok to add these two?
Pretty cool how the certification works to go into pre-1700. So, that said, I’ve worked through the self-certification, and now have two relatives that cross over into that zone. They are:
Per Olofsson 1678–1740
BIRTH ABT 1678 • Knåda, Ovanåker (X)
DEATH ABT 1740 • Edsbyn, Ovanåker (X)
7th great-grandfather of husband
and
Ella Eriksdotter
1680–1745
BIRTH ABT 1680 • Edsbyn, Ovanåker (X)
DEATH ABT 1745 • Edsbyn, Ovanåker (X)
7th great-grandmother of husband
There is one Ella Eriksdotter from (1690 - 1770) - but it appears she is a different person due to dates and locations.
There are MANY "Per Olofssons.” None have the birth date of 1678.
None have the location of Knåda or Ovanåker. I’ve sloughed through 10 years of the “Per Olafssons” in WikiTree sorted by birth date and none seem to match, with Ella Eriksdotter as spouse.
Other than the references above, these two do not seem to be listed in WikiTree as far as I can tell, nor are they sourced except for family trees from Ancestry.com. These two would also be the end of the line for Swedish ancestry that I can track back.
Please advise. Thank you in advance,
Warm regards, ~ Deborah Nyström
