Åland Islands Emigrant
Institut
has
in Collaboration With
&
The
G-Group – Genealogy Across the Baltic Sea
Finland’s
XVth Swedish
Language Family History Conference
&
Åland
Islands Family History Gathering
*
with the
“Åland Islands Smack in the Middle of
the Baltic Sea”
the Åland Islands Emigrant Institute Banked on
the Following Grand Conference Theme:
1809-2009:
contacts tied – untied – retied
kontakter knyts
- bryts -
återknyts
held at Åland Islands’ Government Building in Mariehamn, Autonomous
Åland Islands from 9 to 11 October 2009.
The Conference Theme: is riveted on the lively contacts maintained around & across the “Baltic Sea”, both in the East-West & North-South directions, which have been
tied, untied, as well as retied, in spite of wars, peace, mass deportations,
border adjustments, foreign occupations & rules.
The Program includes 13 Lectures: with speakers invited from
Denmark, Sweden, Russia, USA, Finland & The Åland Islands.
For Åland’s part:
the opportunity to host this
conference
brings forth a most welcome chance to tie new and enriching contacts,
exchange thoughts, ideas, opinions, facts, insights and reflections,
expand horizons,
all
in the company of a multitude of neighbours from around and across the
“Baltic Sea.”
*
For Conference registration, for travel arrangements and hotel
reservations please contact: The Viking Line:
Preferably
by e-mail: mailto:gruppmar@vikingline.fi
or by phone: +358 +358-(0)18-26011.
For general
information please contact: The Åland Islands Emigrant Institute:
by e-mail: mailto:eminst.slekt@aland.net or by
phone: +358-(0)18-13325 (at 12-4 p.m.).
Welcome to the
XVth Swedish Language Family History Conference
&
Åland
Islands Family History Gathering
taking
place in Mariehamn at the House of Government, Autonomous Åland Islands.
from October 9 to 11 in 2009
under the heading:
1809-2009:
Contacts Tied - Untied - Retied
The
Honourable Britt Lundberg, Minister of Culture, Autonomous Åland
Islands.
will greet everyone welcome to the Åland
Islands.
Håkan
Axelsson, FM, Chief Archivist, Provincial Archives
of Åland, welcomes everyone
to the
Åland Islands Government Building. († 1.3.2009)
Markku
Kuorilehto, KH,
Chairman of the Board, The Genealogical Society of Finland
will offer a few words.
Erik
Lindholm, Chairman,
Åland Islands Emigrant Institute and the Chairman of this
Conference, will declare the Conference open.
Göte
Sundberg, Sea
Captain. Honorary Chairman, Åland Islands Emigrant Institute,
Executive Director Emeritus & Board Member
of Åland Maritime Museum:
declares the Conference Book-Market Open for
Business.
Keynote Speaker:
USA, Kodiak / Anchorage, Alaska:
Helen
Jane Knagg Simeonoff, Artist, Genealogist.
The Knagg Family Tree in Alaska & US East
Coast, with Roots in Finland, Sweden and Germany.
*
Conference
exhibits:
1721 – 1922: Two Centuries of Finnish Eastward Labor Migration
&
Haddon
Sundblom’s American Christmas
on exhibit in rooms # ? & ?
Annika
Dahlblom, Division
Director, Åland Museum, invites everyone to visit the
Åland
Islands Emigrant Institute’s exhibit on display at her museum:
Åland → America
footprints:
Warner Sallman ♦ Phil Fagerholm ♦
Haddon Sundblom
– peddling messages –
*
Note: The Language of the Conference
is Swedish, with possibilities for conversation in English and Russian as well.
Note 1: Each lecture will be limited to max 40 minutes allowing time for
questions.
2: There might be reasons
beyond our control which will call for some slight changes in the above and
below program.
Sweden:
Martin
Hårdstedt, FD. Docent.
Lecturer in History, Department of History, Umeå
University:
From a Swedish Point of View: To Interpret and
Understand the 1808-09 Finnish War.
Ted Rosvall, Cantor. Chairman Emeritus of Sweden’s
Coalition of Genealogical Societies
HANDBOOK IN EMIGRANT RESEARCH. A
Trip into American Databases, Person Registries and Internet Resources.
Ted Rosvall, Cantor. Chairman Emeritus of Sweden’s
Coalition of Genealogical Societies
My
relatives in Russia, and how I located them.
Gunnar Ståhl, Doctoral Candidate, Department of
History. G-Group – Genealogy Across
the
Baltic Sea:
Journeys Made Across the Baltic, and Records of Travels Made Abroad from Sweden and Finland found in Swedish Archives.
Otfried Czaika, TD. Docent. Researcher at
Stockholm’s Royal Library. Chairman: G-
Group
– Genealogy Across the Baltic.
The
G-Group: Family Research Across the Baltic Sea.
Russia:
Andrey Valterovich Grinev, Professor of History, St.
Petersburg State Polytechnical
University, Department of Sociology
& Law:
USA:
Margarita Nikamo Choquette, M.A., Salt Lake City, Utah (Family
History Library):
Old
North-East European & West Russian, including Ukrainian
and White Russian Evangelical Lutheran Parishes.
Denmark/Finland:
Carl-Thomas von Christierson, Cand. Mag. & Art,
Frederiksberg. Denmark.
Fredrik Wilhelm von Christierson, Life and Fortunes of a Mariner in the 1820-30’s. A Case-study in Maritime Research Sources.
Finland/USA:
Maria Jarlsdotter Enckell,
M.F.A., The Sitka Godenhjelm Project Phase II.
From an Island Home-Turf to Officialdom: Kökargossen Thomas Elfsbergs
väg mot stjärnorna.
Åbo-St.
Petersburg:
Eero Sepponen, Church Dean, Head
Pastor at both Åbo Swedish language Parish &
St. Petersburg’s former Swedish
language St. Katarina Parish:
St. Katarina Parish Then and Now: Building Anew
on the Past, Church Records etc.
Finland:
Pertti Hakala, Researcher, The National Archives,
Helsingfors/Helsinki:
The Effect of the 1808-1809 War in
the Åland Islands.
Kasper Westerlund, FM. Director. Sjöhistoriska Institutet at Åbo Akademi University:
The Development of the Finnish Seafaring after
Finland’s Union with Imperial Russia.
For
Conference registration, for travel arrangements and hotel reservations please
contact: The Viking Line:
Preferably
by e-mail: gruppmar@vikingline.fi
by mail: Viking Line, Storagatan
2, AX-22100 Mariehamn, Åland, Finland, or by phone: +358 +358-(0)18-26011.
For general
information please contact: The Åland Islands Emigrant Institute:
by e-mail: mailto:eminst.slekt@aland.net or by
phone: +358-(0)18-13325 (at 12-4 p.m.).