Any project forthese pre-1700 people: Anders Björnsson or Bengta Truwedsdotter?

Question

I want to help contribute to the deep genealogy on our shared tree.

1.) Geographical region and time period:   Especially Jönköpings län, Kronobergs län and Blekinge län in Sweden

2.) Some example names and dates:   At this moment my question concerns Anders Björnsson [Björnsson-270] and Bengta Truwedsdotter [Truwedsdotter-1]

3.) Source(s) for my information on them:   cathechetical length and death notice

Before I get started adding and changing profiles, can you tell me if there is a WikiTree project that would cover these people? If so, how do I get in touch with the project members to coordinate and collaborate on the profiles?

Kind regards

Anders Lönnermark

Answer 1

That would be the Sweden Project, which you have just joined.

Comments

You don't get rid of that orange banner for joining a project - it'll always be there when you edit pre-1700 people.

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And. I suspect that Sweden isn't as crowded in WikiTree as some parts of America will be. Just be sure to take a look at the matches suggested when you create new profiles - it MAY happen that you find a branch that you can join up to instead of duplicating.

Also, the parish categories are pretty good for finding related people - or just seeing who else has profiles in the area. They are not compulsory to use, but they'll be there when you start feeling at home in the WikiTree interface.

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The other people in https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Category:Almundsryd_(G) so far are all much later.

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Although when I search for them, there are many more - I'm putting them in the category.

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Thank you for the response and information!

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I have now started to add categories and hopefully this will make it easier to find matches.

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It's always interesting to see if somebody has already been exploring a parish - but I'm afraid that most of the profiles I found and added to Almundsryd yesterday aren't exactly role models. Lots of unsourced profiles there (not an uncommon situation)

There is a Google grop for the project, which may interest you:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=sv#!forum/sweden-project

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I should perhaps say, since your tree "lives" in Jönköping and Kronoberg counties, that in my opinion all those, more or less empty, subcategories are more of a hindrance than a help. Somebody has been over-enthusiastic.

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Thanks, I will only use the main categories (parishes); it seems sufficient to find others in the same category.

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Subcategories become useful when you are exploring a parish in depth and the main category starts spilling over to a second page.