Brenda, The Swedish alphabet has 29 letters. The 26 that we find in English and the 3 additional letters that you find in words, å, ä, and ö. When the alphabet is recited they appear at after y. And I can't tell you how to pronounce them because I only got C's in my Swedish classes and the rest is history. You can write them on an American computer when you hold down the "alt" key and type a sequence of numbers. Here is a cheat sheet that I have used: Å = 0197 å = 0229 Ä - 0196 ä = 0228 Ö = 0214 ö = 0246 So if you wanted to type the birthplace Henrik Lundqvist (the goalie for the NY Ranger's ice hockey team) you would type "Åre". This is pronounced "Ora". But if you were to spell it "Are" you would have a verb and not a place name. (You can google Swedish Alphabet for more information.) Hope this helps, Carol from KY -----Original Message----- From: Brenda Clement <[email protected]> To: sweden <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Jun 5, 2014 4:55 pm Subject: Re: [SWEDEN] Help with writing 'O' What other mark is there above an 'A' in Swedish? When searching in ArkivDigital, there are parishes that begin with an 'A' with a mark above them, that are not dots. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bo Johansson Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 11:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [SWEDEN] Help with writing 'O' Brenda Clement wrote 2014-06-05 17:21: > > Hälleberga AIIa:2 (1901-1910) Image 322 / page 310 (AID: > v166724.b322.s310, > NAD: SE/VALA/00152) > > Line 10..Is that an umlaut or circle above the ‘o’ in Viderstrom? That squiggle (in this text) is dots (umlaut, diaresis), there is no "o-ring" character in Swedish. // Bo Johansson ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Some laptops do not allow the type special characters when holding down the alt key. So here are some great methods to type the special characters. One method is to type charmap in the run window in windows. This pops up a keyboard that allows you to copy a character. Then paste the character in your document. Another easy way to write the special characters is to us the keyboard available in google translate. Just choose Swedish, hit the keyboard icon in the lower left corner and you can easily type Swedish special character. Then select the word , right click on top and choose copy. Google translate is a powerful tool which is able to help translate many Swedish phrases. You could then paste them in a document and copy them whenever you wish. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Carol Larson Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2014 6:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [SWEDEN] Fwd: Help with writing 'O' Brenda, The Swedish alphabet has 29 letters. The 26 that we find in English and the 3 additional letters that you find in words, å, ä, and ö. When the alphabet is recited they appear at after y. And I can't tell you how to pronounce them because I only got C's in my Swedish classes and the rest is history. You can write them on an American computer when you hold down the "alt" key and type a sequence of numbers. Here is a cheat sheet that I have used: Å = 0197 å = 0229 Ä - 0196 ä = 0228 Ö = 0214 ö = 0246 So if you wanted to type the birthplace Henrik Lundqvist (the goalie for the NY Ranger's ice hockey team) you would type "Åre". This is pronounced "Ora". But if you were to spell it "Are" you would have a verb and not a place name. (You can google Swedish Alphabet for more information.) Hope this helps, Carol from KY -----Original Message----- From: Brenda Clement <[email protected]> To: sweden <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Jun 5, 2014 4:55 pm Subject: Re: [SWEDEN] Help with writing 'O' What other mark is there above an 'A' in Swedish? When searching in ArkivDigital, there are parishes that begin with an 'A' with a mark above them, that are not dots. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bo Johansson Sent: Thursday, June 5, 2014 11:42 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [SWEDEN] Help with writing 'O' Brenda Clement wrote 2014-06-05 17:21: > > Hälleberga AIIa:2 (1901-1910) Image 322 / page 310 (AID: > v166724.b322.s310, > NAD: SE/VALA/00152) > > Line 10..Is that an umlaut or circle above the ‘o’ in Viderstrom? That squiggle (in this text) is dots (umlaut, diaresis), there is no "o-ring" character in Swedish. // Bo Johansson ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message