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   Anneli Andersson has been doing genealogical research since 1988, and has worked at the Mellerud museum and genealogy archive for 20 years. At the archive, she assists visitors with their research, and has taught classes in genealogy. Anneli is experienced in helping North Americans to find their Swedish roots, and has assisted them in locating where their ancestors lived and where they are buried. Anneli has been a participant in SwedGenTour since the start in 2002. Member of Vasa Order of America.

 

Charlotte Börjesson has been doing genealogical research for more than 15 years and has deep experience with both Swedish and American resources. She is a former board member with the Computer Genealogy Society of Sweden (DIS) and her areas of expertise include research within in western Sweden as well as computer genealogical research and photography. Charlotte has participant in SwedGenTour since 2002. Member of Vasa Order of America.
Anna-Lena Hultman has been doing genealogical research for more than 35 years and is well-known as an expert on emigration research. Her home province is Västergötland. She was one of the key persons in the development of the Emibas CD, a CD with information on more than 1.1 million emigrants leaving Sweden between 1845 and 1930. She also guides many North Americans during the summer months in locating their ancestors homesteads. Anna-Lena has been a participant in all the SwedGenTours.

 

Olof Cronberg has since more than 30 years extensive experience working with both Swedish and American genealogical resources. He is the former president of Computer Genealogy Society of Sweden (DIS). He has developed the Swedish genealogical database, Disbyt. His ancestry is from whole Sweden including priests, craftsmen, merchants, soldiers, some nobility and of course peasants. Olof has participated in SwedGenTours since 2002.

 

 
Kathy Meade is the North American representative for ArkivDigital AD AB. Kathy has been working with Swedish genealogy for ten years and given many presentations on Swedish genealogy.  She serves on the Advisory Board of the Nordic Family Research Center at the Swedish American Museum in Chicago. She volunteers at the Swedish American Museum in Chicago and the Arlington Heights Memorial Library helping patrons with their Swedish genealogy. Kathy has participated in SwedGen tours since 2005.
Sigbjørn Elvebakken is born in 1963 in Tromsø, Norway, but has been living since 1984 in Oslo. He has been doing genealogy since the early nineties. The speciality is the northern part of Norway, especially Troms County, where both his parents are born.

Sigbjørn is a member of The Genealogy Society of Norway-DIS and has been in the board as a suppleant for two years. Now he is in the board of DIS-Oslo/Akershus as a secretary. He has several classes in Norwegian genealogy every year, as well as arranging different courses in other topics within genealogy, especially advanced.

Sigbjørn has written one article upon railroad workers in churchbooks and other archives, as well as several minutes in the organizations paper Slekt og Data. He has participated in the Swedish genealogy days for several years, doing one on one guidance in genealogy for the guests.

 
Torill Johnsen is the past president of DIS-Norge. Good knowledge of genealogy south of Trondheim, originating from Støren. Researched my own genealogy and helped many others. Assisted in finding Norwegian relatives for participants in
"All for Norway" - realityshow. Have given speach at RootsTech as well as Norwegian Lag Week in Salt Lake City. Prepared and been responsible for many seminars on genealogy.