Carol Larson wrote 2014-07-01 18:37: > > Thanks so much and there he was...of course he moves again in 1845 > and there is the next puzzle. I can see that he moves to Smedså??? > I have checked my Sverige vägatlas and Cradled in Sweden and the parish > index and I am not putting the puzzle pieces together correctly. > I also checked that he didn't leave the parish. --- Try Ortnamsregistret, they have a farm named Smedsås in Toarp parish, which was in the same "pastorat". http://www.sprakochfolkminnen.se/sprak/namn/ortnamn/ortnamnsregistret/sok-i-registret.html > > I saw that Espered was a by. Does that mean it was a little villiage > or was it a large farm? Äspered is a parish, and in the parish is a village named Äspered, that village had 5 farms (which were probably sub-divided) in the 1826-1845 HFL. Äspered AI:3 (1826-1845) Image 3 (AID: v44921.b3, NAD: SE/GLA/13664). // Bo Johansson