scandinavian ancestry

It's been a delight and an ongoing adventure to work with Sanna 
Auerbach as we sleuth out the odd mystery of my Swedish ancestors.  
Sanna has been a delight, a joy, as she has taken on this task almost 
as if it were her own personal family quest.  She's dug up amazing 
info nuggets, both here and in Sweden, that eluded my family for 
generations.  She discovered what happened to my grandfather, who'd been missing since, oh, 1929, maybe -- well, a lot of it, anyhow.  
And where he (and oho his new wife) died.  She found some very alive 
and delightful relatives in Sweden who have now embraced this mutual genealogy mystery hunt.  My particular story is a bit hard to 
document, but Sanna and her elves in Sweden have found so many bits of it, perhaps one day we'll be able to make the whole peculiar 
puzzle fit together. Today, thanks to Sanna, I know a lot more about 
who I am and whence I come. I'm amazed at her skills and persistence, and so grateful she embraced this hunt.

Carol-Lynn Rössel, Maine, USA

Jag hade under lång tid  försökt att hitta vad som hände med en släkting till mig, som kallades ”Vägfrua” och som det har skrivits om i en släktforskartidning i Löa/Ramsberg nära Lindesberg. Jag visste att hon flyttat till USA, men sedan hittade jag henne inte mer. Jag har försökt att finna henne bl.a. via Ancestry.com vilket jag tidvis har prenumererat på. Jag kom inte längre är till Ellis Island.

Så av en händelse så fick jag tag på adressen till Sanna Auerbach och hon har verkligen hjälpt mig mycket som jag inte skulle ha klarat av själv. Hon är vetgirig och ambitiös och har säkert lagt ner många fler timmar än jag har betalat för. Jag har fått en massa dokument, foton  och kontakter (till levande släktingar) via e-mail och cd. Det är nog den bästa hjälp man kan få som svensk då hon bor i landet och är väl bekant med myndigheter och all tillgänglig information som finns att tillgå.

Kjell Pettersson, Nacka, Sweden

I have never had a big family on my father’s side, only one aunt and two cousins that I know of. For a number of years it didn’t matter to me but as I grew older I started thinking that the people that were my grandparents also were children to their parents and that they also were parents like I had become during the years. I knew that my grandfather was one of twelve children and when he grew up it was very hard times in Sweden so five of his siblings had to look for their outcome “over there”. I gave much thoughts to how their mother Augusta Blank felt when she had to say good bye to her children, one by one. Both she and the children must have been frightened and the questions must have been many more than the answers. I started searching the Internet for relatives and by coincident found a second cousin of mine. He didn’t believe  in us being related and I didn’t know how to convince him that we were. Searching the Internet for help I came across Scandinavian Ancestry and Sanna did an amazing work getting me documents to prove the relationship between me and my “unwillingly” second cousin. I was so pleased with her work that I asked her to continue the search for the other Blank siblings. For Sanna there are no problems, only possibilities, and in the summer of 2009 we visited relatives both in Illinois and Minnesota that she found for me.

Thanks to Sanna, who I am proud now to call my friend, I no longer complain the lack of relatives! I am a part of a fantastic and large family that is still growing.

Kaisa Blank Nordmark, Sweden.