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Scania, Sweden====Scania, known in Scandinavia as Skåne is the southernmost province of Sweden. Within Scania, there are 33 municipalities that are autonomous within the Scania Regional Council. Scania's largest city is Malmö, which is also the third largest in Sweden, as well as the fifth largest in Scandinavia.=== To the north, Scania borders the provinces of Halland and Småland, to the north...
Municipality of Norrköping, East Gothland, Sweden This is a regional project in Geni for the Municipality of Norrköping , Sweden. Everybody who is interested in the history of the town or its residents is welcome to join the project. Once you have joined the project you can add profiles, photos, documents etc. of people who have resided here or who otherwise are related to the history of the to...
Municipality of Linköping, East Gothland, Sweden= This is a regional project in Geni for the municipality of Linköping, Sweden. Everybody who is interested in the history of the town or its residents is welcome to join the project. Once you have joined the project you can add profiles, photos, documents etc. of people who have resided here or who otherwise are related to the history of the town...
Uppland is a historical province or landskap on the eastern coast of Sweden, just north of Stockholm, the capital. It borders Södermanland, Västmanland and Gästrikland. It is also bounded by lake Mälaren and the Baltic sea. On the small uninhabited island of Märket in the Baltic, Uppland has a very short and unusually shaped land border with Åland, an autonomous province of Finland.The name lit...
Småland, Sweden Småland is an province ( landskap ) in southern Sweden. Småland borders Blekinge, Scania (Swedish: Skåne), Halland, Västergötland, Östergötland and the island Öland in the Baltic Sea. The name Småland literally means Small Lands. The Latinized form Smolandia has been used in other languages. (Source: English Wikipedia. Read 2019-01-19.) KMunicipalities in Småland There are 33 ...
This is a cooperation project - the aim is to find common ancestors==Västerbotten known in English as West Bothnia or Westrobothnia, is a province (landskap) in the north of Sweden, bordering Ångermanland, Lapland, North Bothnia, and the Gulf of Bothnia. It is known for the cheese named after the province. (Source: English Wikipedia.)The border for the province have changed several times during...
Municipality of Tomelilla, Scania, Sweden= This is a regional project in Geni for the municipality of Tomelilla . Everybody who is interested in the history of the town or its residents is welcome to join the project. Once you have joined the project you can add profiles, photos, documents etc. of people who have resided here or who otherwise are related to the history of the town. This project...
Municipality of Simrishamn, Scania, Sweden= This is a regional project in Geni for the municipality of Simrishamn . Everybody who is interested in the history of the town or its residents is welcome to join the project. Once you have joined the project you can add profiles, photos, documents etc. of people who have resided here or who otherwise are related to the history of the town. This proje...
Strängnäs Municipality= This is a regional project in Geni for the Municipality of Strängnäs , Sweden. Everybody who is interested in the history of the town or its residents is welcome to join the project. Once you have joined the project you can add profiles, photos, documents etc. of people who have resided here or who otherwise are related to the history of the town. You might also want to ...
Jönköping, Smolandia, Sweden= This is a regional project in Geni for the Municipality of Jönköping , Sweden. Everybody who is interested in the history of the town or its residents is welcome to join the project. Once you have joined the project you can add profiles, photos, documents etc. of people who have resided here or who otherwise are related to the history of the town. You should also c...
Municipality of Örebro, Närke, Sweden= This is a regional project in Geni for the Municipality of Örebro , Sweden. Everybody who is interested in the history of the town or its residents is welcome to join the project. Once you have joined the project you can add profiles, photos, documents etc. of people who have resided here or who otherwise are related to the history of the town. You might a...
Ångermanland, Sweden=Ångermanland is a province in the northern part of Sweden. It is bordered (clockwise from the north) by Swedish Lapland, Västerbotten, the Gulf of Bothnia, Medelpad and Jämtland. Prince Nicolas of Sweden is Duke of Ångermanland.The name is derived from the Old Norse anger, which means "deep fjord" and is a reference to the deep mouth of the Ångerman River (Ångermanälven). I...
Jämtland is a province in the centre of Sweden. It borders Härjedalen and Medelpad to the south, Ångermanland to the east, Lapland to the north and Trøndelag and Norway to the west. Jämtland covers an area of 34,009 square kilometres, 8.3% of Sweden's total area and is the second largest province in Sweden. It has a population of 115,331 the majority of whom live in Storsjöbygden, the area surr...
Municipality of Vadstena, Östergötland, Sweden= This is a regional project in Geni for the Municipality of Vadstena , Sweden. Everybody who is interested in the history of the town or its residents is welcome to join the project. Once you have joined the project you can add profiles, photos, documents etc. of people who have resided here or who otherwise are related to the history of the town. ...
Dalarna is a province in Sweden Dalarna is a province or landskap in central Sweden. Another English language form established in literature is the Dales. Dalarna adjoins Härjedalen, Hälsingland, Gästrikland, Västmanland and Värmland. It is also bounded by Norway in the west. Borders of the province mostly coincide with the modern administrative Dalarna County (län). The word "Dalarna" means ...
Medelpad, Sweden=Medelpad is a province in the north of Sweden. It borders Hälsingland, Härjedalen, Jämtland, Ångermanland and the Gulf of Bothnia.The province is a part of Norrland and as such considered to be Northern Sweden, although the province geographically is located in the middle of Sweden. It is a common misconception that the name "Medelpad" ("middle land" or "middle ground") reflect...
Municipality of Växjö, Kronoberg County, Småland, Sweden= This is a regional project in Geni for the Municipality of Växjö , Sweden. Everybody who is interested in the history of the town or its residents is welcome to join the project. Once you have joined the project you can add profiles, photos, documents etc. of people who have resided here or who otherwise are related to the history of the...
Gästrikland is a province of Sweden=Gästrikland is a province or landskap on the eastern coast of Sweden. It borders Uppland, Västmanland, Dalarna, Hälsingland and the Gulf of Bothnia. Gästrikland is the southernmost of the Norrland provinces.Other used forms of the name is Gestricia, Gastrikland. Before 1900, the spelling was officially Gestrikland in Swedish. (Source: English Wikipedia.) ===T...
Svedala= This is a regional project in Geni for the Municipality of Svedala , Sweden. Everybody who is interested in the history of the town or its residents is welcome to join the project. Once you have joined the project you can add profiles, photos, documents etc. of people who have resided here or who otherwise are related to the history of the town. This project is a part of a larger proje...
Bohuslän is a historical province of Sweden=Bohuslän is a Swedish province in Götaland, on the northernmost part of the country's west coast. It is bordered by Dalsland to the northeast, Västergötland to the southeast, the Skagerrak arm of the North Sea to the west, and the county of Østfold, in Norway, to the north.Bohuslän is named after the medieval Norwegian castle of Bohus. Under the name ...
Hälsingland, Sweden=Hälsingland, sometimes referred to as Helsingia in English, is a province in central Sweden. It borders Gästrikland, Dalarna, Härjedalen, Medelpad and the Gulf of Bothnia. It is part of the land of Norrland. (Reference: English Wikipedia.) ===This is a cooperation project - the aim is to help each find common ancestors.===* Add as much geographical information you can, infor...
Hanseatic Town of Stralsund, Pomerania, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany==== Stralsund is a Hanseatic town by the Baltic Sea in the Pomeranian part of the State of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern , Germany. The Western Pomeranian town has been the capital of the Vorpommern-Rügen district since the 2011 district reforms. With a population of about 60,000, it is the fourth-largest city of Mecklenburg-Vorpo...
Gotland is a historical province of Sweden=Gotland is a province, county, municipality, and diocese of Sweden. It is Sweden's largest island. The province includes the islands of Fårö and Gotska Sandön to the north, as well as the Karlsö Islands (Lilla and Stora) to the west. The population is 58,595 of which about 23,600 live in Visby, the main town. The island of Gotland and the other areas o...
Öland, a historical province of Sweden=Öland, (known in Latin as Oelandia, and sometimes written Øland in other Scandinavian languages, and Oland internationally) is the second largest Swedish island and the smallest of the traditional provinces of Sweden. Öland has an area of 1,342 square kilometres (518 square miles) and is located in the Baltic Sea just off the coast of Småland. The island h...
Flen, Södermanland, Sweden= This is a regional project in Geni for the Municipality of Flen , Sweden. Everybody who is interested in the history of the town or its residents is welcome to join the project. Once you have joined the project you can add profiles, photos, documents etc. of people who have resided here or who otherwise are related to the history of the town. You might also want to c...