2013 Week # 4

Genealogy Tips, Week # 4
This is perhaps a little unusual database, but have little luck you can find interesting information here ...

Vagrants in Karlstad 1885-1905


It is only written in Swedish, this is the text on the webside:
"When searching out:
asterisk (*) instead of zero or more unknown characters
at sign (@) instead of an unknown character
spaces between multiple keywords in the same field of these conditions must be satisfied (AND operator)"

This is an example of what I found when I searched for the last name: Svensson

Surname:
Svensson

First Name:
Johan Valfrid

Marital status, occupation:
Metal moulders

Date of Birth:
1866-03-19

Place of residence:
Landskrona

Place of birth:
Landskrona
Father:
August Leonard Larsson, black smith

Mother:
Elna Jonsson

Infractions:
1886-10-30 begging.

Source:
City police in Karlstad AIII: 1
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" Vagrants, who - according to a statement in the 1885 law for vagrants, "prowling without seeking honestly earn a living and also have such a way of life that accidentally thereof arises for public safety, order and morality."

Vagrant-a life without a safety net.......

Perhaps you can find some ancestor here....
Good Luck!