Can anyone suggest how I might be able to find living relatives whose ancestors died in the 1940-60's. Virginia

I have had some luck finding living relatives. I have found the death dates of the "known" relatives and then I ordered the Boupteckning for the deceased and that has given the names of decedents and where they were living. I have then used the Swedish telephone directory (google Swedish telephone directory and you will have several choices.) It has been helpful when the family had a less common name. Several times I have emailed the local community for help in finding folks. Good luck. Carol from KY -----Original Message----- From: Virginia Lindsey <[email protected]> To: sweden <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, May 5, 2014 5:00 pm Subject: [SWEDEN] help with living relatives Can anyone suggest how I might be able to find living relatives whose ancestors died in the 1940-60's. Virginia ------------------------------- 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

Virginia, I am going to be going to Sweden next month.  I have been sending out letters to all the addresses my deceased mother had in her book.  The addresses weren't quite as old as what you mentioned, but several of my relatives are living in their parent's or grandparent's or great-grandparent's homes, so they reached living relatives when the parents, etc. had passed on.  I hope you have some addresses to start with. Someone else I know wrote to the local newspaper requesting assistance and giving what information they had.  The had some success. Good luck. Jean Burquist Cabanilla On Monday, May 5, 2014 2:02 PM, Virginia Lindsey <[email protected]> wrote: Can anyone suggest how I might be able to find living relatives whose ancestors died in the 1940-60's. Virginia ------------------------------- 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

Virginia Lindsey wrote 2014-05-05 22:59: > > Can anyone suggest how I might be able to find living relatives whose > ancestors died in the 1940-60's. If you don't already have exact information, ask on the list for look-ups in the Swedish Death Index 1901-2009. Use that information to request "bouppteckning" (estate inventory) at http://riksarkivet.se/bouppteckning The usually will not demand any fee, as long as you give good information, so you don't have to do any research. // Bo Johansson

Virginia Lindsey wrote 2014-05-05 22:59: > > Can anyone suggest how I might be able to find living relatives whose > ancestors died in the 1940-60's. If you don't already have exact information, ask on the list for look-ups in the Swedish Death Index 1901-2009. Use that information to request "bouppteckning" (estate inventory) at http://riksarkivet.se/bouppteckning THEY usually will not demand any fee, as long as you give good information, so THEY don't have to do any research. Any heirs will be mentioned in the "bouppteckning", then you can find their present addresses at for example birthday.se Or if they have also died, get a look-up in the Death Index, request a "bouppteckning" and find their heirs... // Bo Johansson