Hi, John! I was so excited to finally get an answer to my first ever posting! Thank you for telling me about the Danish newsgroup. I have already looked at it and will give it a try. I have lots of information about my Danish ancestors and Gyrstinge is such a small place (someone mentioned there are only about 50 houses there) that I am naive enough to imagine I could go there and just walk up the street and find out something about my cousins (if there are any). I have Swedish connections too, and could you tell me some newsgroups for Sweden? (even if they don't use them much it's worth a try - haha) Thank you again! Roberta John Thomsen wrote in message <3a7cb6e3.61307940@news.cybercity.dk>... >On Sun, 21 Jan 2001 21:53:37 -0800, "Roberta L. Mueller" ><rlm@camano.net> wrote: > >>I saw someone found living Scandinavian relatives simply by posting to this >>newsgroup, so I will give it a try too. My great great grandparents lived >>in >>GYRSTINGE near Ringsted, Denmark. >> >Hi Roberta >I picked your letter as the site of Gyrstinge is familiar to me; my >father had an uncle who was a forrest-ranger there in the most >beautiful beech-forrest you can imagine... > >But otherwise I would advise you to also put any inquieries on danish >genealogy in the danish newsgroup dk.historie.genealogi >Don't worry, most danes read and understands english pretty well and >most of them also speaks and writes sufficiently. > >Peculiar to you it may occur that the traffic in the danish newsgroup >(as also in the norwegian ones) are by far larger than in this >common-scandinavian, while on the opposite the swedish national groups >are hardly used at all; swedes appearently prefer to meet on web-sites >and "haven't seen the light" of UseNet yet... ;-))) > >See you there... >John - in DK

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001 23:29:11 -0800, "Roberta L. Mueller" <rlm@camano.net> wrote among other things: > >I have Swedish connections too, and could you tell me some newsgroups for >Sweden? (even if they don't use them much it's worth a try - haha) > Two Swedish newsgroups are se.hobby.genealogi swnet.sci.genealogi /Henrik

Hi Roberta and Henrik, actually they are one and the same group as everything is crossposted. The swnet-group was there first, but then about 2 years ago (?) a new heirarchy was decided in Sweden, the SE-group system. I think it was originally thought that the crossposting would only last for a while to phase out the old group, but they are still automatically crossposted. regards, Eva Dahlberg ----- Original Message ----- From: <h.rabe@telia.com> Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.nordic Sent: Wednesday, February 07, 2001 3:05 PM Subject: Re: living Danish relatives? from Gyrstinge | On Tue, 6 Feb 2001 23:29:11 -0800, "Roberta L. Mueller" | <rlm@camano.net> wrote among other things: | | > | >I have Swedish connections too, and could you tell me some newsgroups for | >Sweden? (even if they don't use them much it's worth a try - haha) | > | | Two Swedish newsgroups are | | se.hobby.genealogi | swnet.sci.genealogi | | /Henrik | <h.rabe@telia.com> skrev i diskussionsgruppsmeddelandet:3a8155af.17248918@news1.telia.com... | On Tue, 6 Feb 2001 23:29:11 -0800, "Roberta L. Mueller" | <rlm@camano.net> wrote among other things: | | > | >I have Swedish connections too, and could you tell me some newsgroups for | >Sweden? (even if they don't use them much it's worth a try - haha) | > | | Two Swedish newsgroups are | | se.hobby.genealogi | swnet.sci.genealogi | | /Henrik |