Good Afternoon Listers, Through a message from Eric Stroschein, I learned of a couple sites that others might want to check out and bookmark. The first is the personal web page of Geoff Fröberg Morris: https://sites.google.com/site/gfrobergmorrishomepage/home There is a lot of helpful research info include videos on how to research records. Also on the site is, and perhaps most helpful, is the following: *Swedish Historical Dictionary Database, SHDD* During 2013 and 2014 I helped create the Swedish Historical Dictionary Database, SHDD. The project started by scanning a Swedish, German, French, and English Dictionary that was printed in Örebro, Sweden in 1814. We decided to make the Swedish and English content searchable. So over the last couple years we keyed-in every Swedish term with the English translation. With that data we created a database that is now searchable online for free. Here is a summary of the database: * It has over 41,000 Swedish terms with English translation * All words were keyed-in exactly as they were printed in 1814. So people can search using the pre-1906 spelling. The words in the database are more likely to match what users see in the records. * A user can search by Swedish or English * A user can do a partial search from the beginning, middle, or ending of a word. If part of a word is illegible in a record, the user can search based on what they can read. * Categories were added to help focus a search (similar to a word list.) * A user can search by page number to see all the words on a given page * A user can click on a page number to see the scanned image of the original dictionary * It works great from a PC or any mobile device The database is available at: http://swedishgenealogyguide.com/shdd I don't remember this as one of the sites in the intro message to new listers. -- Lo in Flo Lois Kälander Casson Pensacola, Florida USA