Project Language

It's okey with me 👍
English is perhaps preferable if there are people from Finland or USA joining a discussion?

OK!

Both are ok

Perfect proposal...& by the way, while I´m writing, Småland is missing in the project as far as I can see. Are there any plans to add that landscape too?

Småland is not missing, there are several projects in Småland and the main page for the province is here https://www.geni.com/projects/Sm%C3%A5land-historical-province-of-S...

both are ok, english is , perhaps, easier for someone outside of Scandinavia to follow.

Svenska går alldeles utmärkt.Jag talar både svenska och finska.Och har anor både i Finland och Sverige som många andra .Sverige och Finland har lång gemensam historia.

I feel comfortable with both Swedish and English. We are a lot of people with family trees or roots in several countries except Sweden. And as I see it the important thing is to connect people in different geographical areas. We have a lot of Americans or Finnish speaking people who wants to know more about their family roots in Sweden. And in Sweden we have five minority languages, Finnish, Saami, Meänkieli, Jiddish and Romani. I believe that although we would decide to have all discussions mainly in Swedish and English, our goal will still be to help people doing family research in Sweden in as many languages we can. Some people who want to do family research in Sweden are not fluently in Swedish. And I think the main goal on Geni is to help each other! And there are a lot of people that are good at several languages that are willing to help those who are not bilingual!

Going back to the question about Småland, there are at least 11 projects on Geni about Småland, and one of them is about the historical province. Per Anders Dencker, you find most of the Smålands-project on the main page called "Sverige" or if you use the search function in the upper right corners in "projects".

English for me please

OK!

English please 🙃

English please !

Svenska som modersmål, men uppväxt i finsk omgivning i Helsingfors, så finska är också ok. Tyvärr inte engelska

I'm fine with either. Tyvärr blir ju någon utesluten hur man än gör...

English please

English for me

Det går bra med Finska eller Engelska.
Mvh..Eila Seppälä

Hej,
Svenska går bra, engelska går bra, finska går bra. Jag har släktingar i Sverige.
Johan Roos

I think that Reijo's idea of using Swedish or English as a main communication language is fine and most suitable. If there is a need for only Finnish usage lets try help and translate. In this group certainly are language skilled members to help.

Both Swedish and English are ok for me.

Yes Wellcome all folks, we are so happy folks and positive.

Hiya

English is my language. With that said, I'm comfortable using Google Translate or DeepL. I play a game with international players and that’s how we communicate. We generally reply using the others native language. So if the conversation starts in Swedish then we would all communicate using Swedish or vice versa for English.

Hej

Engelska är mitt språk. Med det sagt är jag bekväm med att använda Google Translate eller DeepL. Jag spelar ett spel med internationella spelare och det är så vi kommunicerar. Vi svarar i allmänhet med det andra modersmålet. Så om samtalet börjar på svenska skulle vi alla kommunicera med svenska eller vice versa för engelska.

I guess this language discussion came up since several of us living in Sweden or working in this project group, do not understand what Pentti Mattila wrote in Finnish? So if Pentti Mattila wants us that do not understand Finnish to answer a question or comment something, he need to refrase what he wrote for an example in English or in Swedish - or if someone of you who are bilingual and good at Finnish and Swedish, or English, can tell us others what the question or discussion was about? You can usually expect someone in Sweden to be able to speak Swedish or English - but only 200 000-250 000 persons in Sweden speak Finnish.

Hej , svenska eller english is ok . All my know how in finnish is gone way back.

English are ok for me

Engelska blir lite kämpigt för mig. Men det finns ju google translate.