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This introduction is by our Deputy Chairman and Family Archivist.

The order in which the other languages are given above (Swedish, Portuguese, 
German, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish and Finnish) corresponds with 
percentages in the FamSAC membership base. In that, our Danish and Norwegian 
visitors are respectfully expected to be able to read a rather dry northeastern 
dialect of theirs called Swedish.

Our FamSAC of Stockholm site here at Tribal Pages is continuing to be compiled in 
2008. If as a relative you can't find yourself or your branch yet, delete 
your "cookies" (know how?) and check again! You're probably in there by now. Note, 
though, that only FamSAC members can be given the password to access pictures and 
listings of any persons alive today. 

Hundreds of photos are still being added, appearing as portraits of individuals 
or in special galleries or for other illustrations. For the galleries, when they are 
done, you'll need to know your family code letter (T E M N A R S or G) and see a 
corresponding Gallery Album, or else view individual "Gallery Pix" in the name 
listings - beginning with G as in Gallery Pix - below! Almost all the pictures on this 
website can be ordered from FamSAC in higher definition versions, portrait formats, 
composites, collages and other print-outs.

F.M.S.A.C. is my new book about family history, due in print in 2008. The title stands 
for Familiae Magnae Suecanae Americanae & Cetera, meaning greater families of Swedish, 
American and other nationalities. There are eight such families included, in that book 
and here, namely each and every known ancestor and descendant of all my Swedish great-
great-grandparents, listed here from the all-paternal to the all-maternal with each 
greater family's code letter first: 
T ~ Trued Abrehamsson & Karna Johansdotter, North Sandby, Scania; 
E ~ Erland Andersson & Lena Nilsdotter, Dahln, Arvika, Vermillandia; 
M ~ Kaj Mats Matsson & Rönns Anna Andersdotter, Frostbo, Dalecarlia; 
N ~ Näktergals Anders Andersson & Anna Görsdotter, Gimsbärke, Dalecarlia; 
A ~ Johan P. Andersson & Anna Katrina Andersdotter, Ersboda, Sudermania; 
R ~ Gustaf Adolf (Sr.) & Mathilda (Wahlberg) von Reis, Nyköping, Sudermania; 
S ~ Knuts Johan & Stina (Andersdoter) Sandberg, Barkargärde, Dalecarlia; and 
G ~ Anders J. Gäfvert & Fredrika Wahlberg, Tjärna, Dalecarlia.

The siblings of fifteen of these sixteen founding parents (one had none) and 
many of their descendants are also included, though these sibling branches, as 
I call them, are far from complete and are thus open to much more research.

A word of warning to some sensitive souls may be in order about the infant mortality
rate in olden days, which gives you quite a jolt when viewing some families just about
devastated by it. ~ "Tell us, Thou clear and heavenly tongue, Where are the babes but
lately sprung? Lie they the lily-banks among?" (Robert Herrick liberally quoted).

To use this website effectively as a relative, I recommend that you first 
determine which one or ones of the eight great families you belong to. My 
paternal cousins, for example, belong to all four of T E M and N, whereas my 
maternal ones are in A R S and G. If you aren't sure which of the couples of 
founding ancestors is/are yours, if you need special photo prints or if you 
have corrections or additions, please send us a message using the link above 
and we'll help you! 

The FamSAC Society of Relatives of Stockholm, Sweden, founded on June 16, 2006, 
represents these eight families in its international membership and will be 
publishing the book. It goes under the umbrella of the Southerly Clubs of 
Stockholm and is registered in Sweden with the national organization number 
802432-9735, also registered as an American organization in Blair, Nebraska, 
the main seat of the immigration of these Swedes. To the name of each relative 
and spouse/mate listed here an individual FamSAC code is given, adhering to 
traditional, paternalistic genealogy. Each code is exclusive to each person 
(mine is T6.6.5.2 for example). All co-parents and legal spouses are given an 
m, for mate, in my system (whereas Tribal Pages also uses p for the unmarried), 
and both adopted and foster children have an f in FamSAC coding (fD = foster 
daughter or adopted daughter).

It can be good for a visitor to this FamSAC site to know that women normally 
did not adopt the surnames of their husbands in Sweden prior to a name law 
passed there in 1901. For the period after that, a maiden name is usually 
entered here as a middle name (last in sequence) to facilitate searches, 
whereas for other types of name changes (than marriage) the same usually does 
not apply. 

A few special information pages, shown in Family View, have been put in (see 
FamSAC as a name for example!).

Descendants of the Royal Family of Sweden are also involved, in two branches 
that belong to my paternity (T E M N) and maternity (A R S G) respectively. 
Thus, to show how, most members of that country's royal Bernadotte Dynasty 
also appear here, listed with a last name of "Sweden" or of a few other 
countries that some royals adopted, e.g. by marriage. For the full genealogy of 
Swedish royalty and a lot of other European such, plus special information 
pages about their dynasties, see www.ristesson.tribalpages.com!

                  ~ Jacob Truedson Demitz, Stockholm, Sweden, October 4th, 2007.

P. S. A few little problems remain (March 2008): 
Spouses often show up in incorrect places. I have entered them all correctly and 
have asked Tribal Pages to look at solutions for this general problem with 
these sites. Meanwhile, my apologies for some pages that contain such embarrassing 
mistakes, apparently unavoidable in current formatting.
It has been necessary, due to formats as yet limited here, to add such 
prepositions as "von" or "of" in the first name fields of many individuals, 
which causes some odd listings and headings on certain pages. 
The first name normally used in addressing a person has to be put first among 
first names in this format, so in many cases, preceding first names have been 
entered in the personal information but are not found in name headings.
It does not seem to be safe to assume that an apostrophe (') or quotation marks 
(") entered will show up as such, as they often show up as backwards-leaning 
French grave accents instead.  
Unmarried persons with children cannot currently be entered in such a 
manner that they do not appear on some pages as married.
Finally, there is trouble with the Swedish letters Å, Ä and Ö. Last names 
beginning with these letters appear for now under A and O in the list here on our home 
page (just below here), but the search function ignores them. We have asked Tribal 
Pages urgently for help with this. For now, you'll have to search by avoiding these 
letters. Put in a first name only or part of a name (Nystr rather than Nyström) or a 
close family member by a different name! Fortunately, names and text with these 
letters are not effected per se (they are all in there OK), just the search aspect.