The Society’s founder, Hjalmar Berglund (1901-1993) published a number of ahnentafel lists covering various branches of the family.

This family register is based on the original family tree and has been supplemented with information from other researchers, digital records and Internet resources. This register currently covers more than 16 000 people; dead and alive. It continues to grow with help from family and relatives.

The links left will open pdf-files; lists for the corresponding family branch.

Please contact our genealogists for updating, corrections and any information you may have about people in you branch. Arne, Sture and Bertil all assist with these matters.

The register is divided into three main branches, following the three surviving children of Hakan Svensson Kraak: Sissa, Karin and Sven. These branches are in turn divided into subgroups such as the Tjurkö branch etcetera.

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The Family Number System

Each person is allocated a unique number, basically in accordance with the well known system "Henry Numbers".

The children in a family is assigned a number: 1-9, number 1 being the first born. The difference from Henry Numbers being that children after child nine get a letter: A (=10), B (=11), C (=12),D (=13), E (=14). Every digit or letter represents a generation.

I.E. The family number 1 for Sissa tells us that she was the first child of the first generation. ID is then interpreted as Anders Åkesson - the 13th child of Sissa’s.

Spouses are recognized with the number 0 (zero), and if remarried with another 0. This system does not show which parent a child belongs to.

Earlier we used a point to separate the generations as a child’s number sometimes had two digits. For the sake of readability we have abandoned this and also introduced a hyphen after the 6th generation.