More information: Exploring Blekinge
Bråstorp is a small settlement to the southeast of Tving, in the province of Blekinge in Southern Sweden. The settlement has around 40 adult inhabitants. It is on the main road leading to Tving and consists of spread-out residential buildings in a countryside setting with farmland and forests in its vicinity. Several of my ancestors…
Gunnetorp is a small settlement to the west of Tving, in the province of Blekinge in Southern Sweden. The settlement has around 30 adult inhabitants and it is in a countryside setting with fields for farming in its vicinity. Several of my ancestors have called Gunnetorp their home, these include Karl Johan Gustafsson (1837-1914) and…
Tving is a locality in the province of Blekinge in southern Sweden. It was earlier the center of the local parish but is today a part of Karlskrona Municipality. The earlier settlement with the church at its core has developed and the locality has today around 530 inhabitants. Several of my ancestors have lived their…
Karlshamn is a town in the province of Blekinge in Southern Sweden. Already when the area was a part of Denmark, it was a harbor known as Bodekull. The era of shipping and trade at the local harbor has continued ever since. Karlshamn is today home to around 20.000 inhabitants. It is also the birthplace…
Sölvesborg is a locality in the province of Blekinge in southern Sweden. Its location on a peninsula in the Baltic Sea has made it famous for its white sandy beaches along narrow historical streets and beech forests. Parts of the street layout still date back to the Middle Ages and even though Sölvesborg has lost…
Karlskrona is a town in southern Sweden, in the historical province of Blekinge. The town has since its foundation in 1680 been an important base for the Swedish Navy and it is thanks to the long history has the old parts of the town are a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The navy is still present…