SVT teaser video: Allt för Sverige. October 13, 2011
http://youtu.be/-VpxMlWzCcsSVT promo video: Allt för Sverige - De söker sitt svenska ursprung.
Video is available for viewing on website until January 18, 2011.
SVT promo video: Allt för Sverige - The Landing in Torekov.
Video is available for viewing on website until January 18, 2011.
Ten Americans come to Sweden for the first time, eager to find their family roots. "Allt för Sverige" premieres Sunday on SVT.
And best of all for those of you who don't speak Svenska, the eight-part series hosted by Anders Lundin of SVT's daily Gomorron Sverige news/info/chat show is mostly in English, with Swedish sub-titles, unlike this video below of him talking about the upcoming shows, where he plays the role of not just the amiable host, but also part-time teacher, part-time psychologist, as he takes his charges thru some competition and tries his best to instill in them a sense of the best parts of what it is to be Swedish.
Anders Lundin of Gomorron Sverige on the new SVT show he hosts, Allt för Sverige. Video is available for viewing on website until October 23, 2011.
But then it's a reality show, so, good intentions notwithstanding, it's not like the show's cast was going to be talking about high-level economic policy, so you'll be able to follow along with no problems.
As someone who knows from first-hand experience, there are few 'bugs' harder to shake than the genealogy 'bug,' since when you least expect it, it will play havoc with your life and daily schedule for weeks or months if you let it, causing you to stay up all night looking at hard-to-decipher handwriting on censuses from the 19th Century, instead of catching up on your much-needed sleep.
To use a cliche I never have used here before -been there, done that.
The new Allt för Sverige program website is chock full of info & videos: http://svt.se/2.162106/
When I first moved to Washington, D.C. in the summer of 1988, blessed with a not-so-great air conditioner at my place on Capitol Hill, just five blocks east of the U.S. Capitol, I spent hundreds and hundreds of hours at The National Archives on the National Mall, and, even closer to me, at the Local History and Genealogy Reading Room in the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress, the one just east of the Capitol and south of the Supreme Court.
Yes, back before the Internet made staying in a large room all day on a beautiful winter Saturday to try to find one small needle in a haystack in a 100-year old book you'd never seen before, seem even crazier than it sounds to read here now.
Sometimes, those hours seemed like years...
And speaking fo Swedish heritage, now for something completely different... from Shay's (SHAYMCN1) amazing treasure trove of ABBA and rock videos:
Agnetha Fältskog - Tack Sverige (Thank You Sweden, 1968)
Too precious for words!
But, of course, unlike in the song above, some Swedes did leave... and some of them became famous all over the world as Swedish-Americans...
Ann-Margret - BYE BYE BIRDIE title song (1963)
Later that same year, twenty-two year old Ann-Margret got very animated ...
Ann-Margret as Ann-Margrock singing on ABC-TV's The Flintstones - "I Ain't Gonna Be Your Fool No More" (STEREO, HD)
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A little info on the first city the cast sees, Torekov, in Skåne County, right next door to, yes, Halland County.
NY Times travel articles on Sweden:
