About 572 direct ancesters, between 1590-1987, to Sven Abrahamsson, Carla Olsson, Bertil Maansson and Alma Bondesson where one can follow in the footsteps of our Swedish and Danish forefather allmost in the area of Willands district are collected here.

Those 575 (the writers family included) ancesters have thousends of descendants. And most of them have there rooths in this part of Sweden. More than 10.000 emegrated to America between 1850 - 1900 from Willands district. Pherhaps you can find an ancester here.

Hope to find out more in future........... here, for example is one site you can find us in 

http://gw2.geneanet.org/index.php3?b=jimmyfreij&lang=sv;p=bo+bertil;n=abrahamsson

 We have sort over 2000 name from Sones database (43000 name)  over people as have some relations between USA and Willands  ancestry "AOMB" This link will take you to an Ancestry collection made by Sone Abrahamsson under 20 years time. There can be some misstake so be careful, control authentic and let me now the right so the three could be better when i publish it in this new webbsite;

http://www.taladata.se/sone/index.html

An other homepage for FamSAC of Stockholm Society of Relatives; http://www.famsac.tribalpages.com/tribe/browse?userid=famsac&view=9&rand=887717382

Database; http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?key=p7uofWZeZ74X1eZg1YXOcaQ

  In this link You can reas about the author Lilly Setterdahls book about the life in the Distrikt;     http://www.infibeam.com/Books/info/Lilly-Setterdahl/Minnesota-Swedes-Volume-II-Trolle-Ljungby-Families/1581128088.html

 A book about life and living in Willand, NE Scania

Many of the individuals in this study were closely related. They came from an agricultural community in Sweden dominated by a large estate. The pioneers came in search of 'free' land, and they found it in Goodhue County. Former neighbors settled close to one another. Many of the descendants are still tied to the land. The author has endeavored to trace the immigrants from cradle to grave to find out how they fared in their new homeland. But she did not stop there. Whenever possible, she continued her search among the descendants. There are extracts from official records in Sweden and in America for about 320 immigrants. Including their families, the study encompasses more than one thousand individuals.

Explore the intricate kinship within the group, name-changes, moves, occupations, farm locations, family members, and much more. The author, a native of Sweden, has studied and written about Swedish immigration history for the last 30 years. This book is a continuation of Minnesota Swedes: The Emigration From Trolle Ljungby 1855-1922, which she had published in 1996.

Try this Demographical Database for Southern Sweden.

 It is free of charge.

http://www.ddss.nu/(S(ptxintujrbwykzbh2wuhi445))/english/default.aspx

The Villand District lies in Scania northeast, in the south of Sweden, and where including the following parishes in 1900 century; Näsum. Ivetofta, Ivö, Kiaby, Trolle Ljungby (Västra  Ljungby) Gualöv, Oppmanna, Vånga, Österslöv, Fjälkinge, Fjälkestad med Råbelöv, Gustaf Adolf (Viby), Rinkaby, Åhus and a part of Nosaby.