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Trace your Swedish, Norwegian, or Danish ancestors! This convenient guide will help you discover your Northern European family history while optimizing your research time. Highlights include: Strategies for identifying immigrant Scandinavian ancestors, plus how to trace them back to Europe from North AmericaMethods for locating Swedish genealogy records, Norwegian genealogy records, or Danish genealogy records within your family's town of originDetailed guides to finding and decoding common Scandinavian records, including: church records, civil registration records, census returns, property deeds, military records, and many moreQuick guides to Scandinavian history, geography, and languageHistorical timelines, sample records, and resource lists that will bring your family history to life If your family tree includes Swedish roots, Danish roots, or Norwegian roots, The Family Tree Scandinavian Genealogy Guide is a must-have for your genealogy research.
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David A. Fryxell founded Family Tree Magazine, the nation's most popular genealogy publication, and wrote its long-running "History Matters" column. He was previously editor-in-chief of Writer's Digest Magazine and Writer's Digest Books, wrote the Nonfiction column for Writer's Digest for more than a decade, and served as the director of the annual Maui Writers Retreat. He has written more than 1,000 magazine and newspaper pieces, for publications including Playboy, Reader's Digest and Travel & Leisure. He's been an editor at TWA Ambassador, Horizon, Pitt and Milwaukee magazines, the St. Paul Pioneer Press newspaper, and the Tufts University Health & Nutrition Letter, and executive producer of Microsoft's Twin Cities Sidewalk website. For a dozen years, he and his wife, Lisa, owned and published an award-winning monthly regional periodical, Desert Exposure, based in Silver City, NM. Today he lives and writes in Tucson.
