The site is totally devoted to the database of
relatives. The starting point is my daughters, Maria and Emma Herrström. But in both parts I have included cousins in a
way that is not according to the strict principles of genealogy. As a matter of
fact the principle is blurry and subjective.
On the other hand I am not a fan of the strict
principles of how to regard relatives according to the genealogists. I do not
think that expected inheritance of DNA is a good principle, especially as new science have found that about 10% of all people have an
other biological father than he/she thinks. Family and relatives are social
constructions. And that is why I don’t have any principle at all.
To the left you can probably understand the
structure. As the Swedish law might prohibit publishing of this kind of
information on the net I have taken away all information that is not harmless
and which is not older than 70 years. This means that the starting point is the
grandparents of my daughters on both sides.
Most of the work concerning the families of Herrström and Reiman
is done by Maria’s and Emma’s grandfather, Yngve Herrström and the structuring that his brother Stig has done lately. I have just put it into the program “Min
Släkt”
, checked and added some information that I could easily
find. Concerning the families Håkanson and Regnell and their ancestors my wife and I
have used a lot of different sources. Firstly, and according to the book, interviews with
some relatives plus information from a book covering some of the ancestors to
my wife (“Ljungbysläkten Sandberg”). I have also, for
the daughters grandmother’s father used a source by Stig Regnell (“Regnelliana”, 1995) that covers more than 25 families with
the family name Regnell. Luckily I have also had
access to Genline (www.genline.se) which have given me the pleasure
to read the sources via internet on my PC. The only “on the spot” thing I have
done was a visit to the parish Skedevi to get some
final information.
All of it is in Swedish, so it is not of very
great use for those who do not read this language. There are some Herrstroms that have moved to the