Plan of the Siege of Frederiksten, 1718. Holm, Edvard. Danmarks Riges Historie , vol. 5, 1907. Public domain. Available from Wikimedia Com...

Unofficial flag of Swedish-speaking Finns. By Mysid (Self-drawn in CorelDraw, based on FOTW.) [Public domain]. Available from Wikimedia Co...

The Minnesota Historical Society provides access to 28 Swedish-American newspapers published between 1859 and 2007. These newspapers were pu...

When I obtained the Civil War pension application of Samuel August Samuelson , the brother of my 3rd-great-grandmother Johanna Carolina Samu...

Map of Götaland, showing the smaller regions (landskap). CC BY-SA 3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 ). Available from Wi...

In 1912, my 2nd-great-grandfather Andrew T. Anderson (born Andreas Troedsson) traveled to Sweden to visit his family. He arrived in Sweden ...

Johanna Carolina My 3rd-great-grandmother Johanna Carolina Samuelsdotter (Samuelson, Erickson) was born 180 years ago today, on 18 Augu...

District subdivisions in Mjölby Municipality. Lantmäteriet [ODbL ( http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/ ), CC BY-SA 2.5 ( http:...

Poster. Swedish Flag Day in 1916. By Gustaf Ankarcrona [Public domain]. Nordic Museum's photographic studio, Nordic Museum. Available ...

Old provinces of Skåne. By Lunnen2009 (Own work) [GFDL ( http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html ) or CC BY-SA 3.0 ( http://creativecommons.o...

Swedish Empire in Early Modern Europe (1560-1815). Derivative work by M.K , based on Swedish Empire (1560-1815) blank.svg by Justass , ba...

March 21 is World Down Syndrome Day . Since 2005, events have been held on this day to raise awareness of Down Syndrome and to show how peop...

Semla or fastlagsbulle (Swedish), laskiaispulla (Finnish) or fastelavnsbolle (Danish and Norwegian), traditional roll, associated with Len...

Discarded Christmas trees. 20 January 2011. Photo by 4028mdk09 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0 )...

My 2nd-great-grandfather Carl Johan/Charles John Dahlquist went through many changes during his lifetime, including his name, his country of...

National Day of Sweden, 6 June 2009, Stockholm, Sweden. Photo by Frankie Fouganthin (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 ( http://creativecommons.org...

Swedish Club of Chicago. 2 February 2010. Photo by Smallbones . Public domain. Available from Wikimedia Commons . My second cousin once ...

May 20 is European Maritime Day. The purpose of the day is to raise awareness of the importance of the oceans and the role that they play...

Pages from a 1712 Swedish almanac, showing the month of February. Public domain. Available from Wikimedia Commons . Sweden did not immed...