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Swedish-American:Church Records

Sandy on August 3rd, 2011

FamilySearch.org says: “Records of the Swedish American Churches are a great source for genealogical information and especially for helping to establish the place of origin in Sweden. Many of the Swedish-American church records kept in American are of the same high quality found as the records of Sweden. Sweden had a State Church (1527 to [...]

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Bulgarian archaeologists discover major church built by the last Emperors of Byzantium

Sandy on July 15th, 2011

Archaeologists in the Black Sea town of Zozopol in Bulgaria have unearthed the main church of a 14th century Byzantine monastery built by the last dynasty of the Eastern Roman Empire. Funded by the Bulgarian government, Dr Krastina Panayotova’s team of archaeologists uncovered the St. Apostles monastery church, a small cemetery chapel, and a feudal [...]

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