Thank you, Bo, for that translation of the birth record and the emigration information which connects the dots. Is there a reason no father's name is given? Jo-Ann On Fri, Aug 21, 2015 at 4:50 PM, Bo Johansson <bo.h.johan56@bredband.net> wrote: > Den 2015-08-21 kl. 22:15, skrev Jo Ann Croft via: > >> >> I have found on ancestry.com a birth for a Carl Bernhard Liljestrale on >> 17 >> Dec 1869 in Allmänna Barnbördshuset, Stockholm, but cannot decipher the >> rest of the information. Also I have no way of determining if this is my >> "Carl B Lilliestrale". >> > > Allmänna barnbördshusets kyrkoarkiv CI:6 (1867-1872) Image 112 (AID: > v82983.b112, NAD: SE/SSA/6039): > > Birth date: 17 Dec 1869 > Sex: M > Name: Carl Bernhard > Status: live birth, legitimate, male > Parents: artillerist's wife Zenobia Liljestråle > Address: "Artillerits Styckjunk p. 5"(??) > Mother's status: married > Mother's age: 28 > > // Bo Johansson >