Genealogy Projects tagged with Gästrikland on the Geni Family Tree

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  • Locality Gävle, Gästrikland, Sweden

    Projekti aloitettu/start 11.11.2017.===History===Old town (Gamla stan)It is believed that the name Gävle derives from the word gavel, meaning river banks in Old Swedish and referring to the Gavleån (Gävle River). The oldest settlement was called Gävle-ägarna, which means "Gavel-owners". This name was shortened to Gävle, then Gefle, and finally Gävle.Gävle is first mentioned as a town in officia...

  • Municipality of Tierp, Uplandia, Sweden

    Tierp Municipality Tierp Municipality ( Tierps kommun ) is a municipality in Uppsala County in province of Uppland , east central Sweden. The municipality seat is located in the town of Tierp . At the end of 2021 the population in the municipality was 21,485. Besides Tierp , other urban concentrations in the municipality include Karlholmsbruk , Killskär , Månkarbo , Mehedeby , Örbyhus , Skärp...

  • Saami in central Sweden

    (in Swedish) and (in Swedish), corresponding to (In Norweighan)A genealogy project about the historical Saami population in central Sweden (mainly Svealand and southern Norrland) and their descendants. For centuries they lived in areas south of the modern Saami reindeer herding districts. Some of them were Forest, Lake or Coast Saami and they depended on hunting, fishing, trading and reindeer h...

  • Ockelbo municipality, Sweden

    Ockelbo municipality, Gästrikland, Sweden=This page is newly started and under construcion, 2021-10-03Ockelbo kommun är en inlandskommun i Gävleborgs län. Centralort är tätorten Ockelbo.Kommunen ligger huvudsakligen i den nordvästra delen av landskapet Gästrikland, men en mindre del norr (Lingbo distrikt) ligger i landskapet Hälsingland.