Spring Seminar 2026
Researching Your Norwegian and Swedish Roots with Fritz Juengling Ph D, AG®, AGL™
Co-Hosted by the Clark County Genealogical Society and Sons of Norway
Co-Sponsors: New Sweden Cultural Heritage Society, Swedish Roots in Oregon, and the Scandinavian Genealogical Society of Portland
Presented live and in-person in Portland, Oregon,
and made available online, via Zoom!
Researching Your Norwegian and Swedish Roots
Sessions include:
- Scandinavian Surnames - It's Complicated!
- Using the Norwegian National Database
- Calendars and Feast Days
- Using the Swedish National Database
- Tips for reading records when you don't know the language.
This is a GFO seminar that will be held at the Sons of Norway Hall, 111 NE 11th Ave., Portland, OR. Participants may attend in-person or online via Zoom.
Pricing:
- Event Registration - non-Member
- $55 through Apr 15th, $65 thereafter. - Event Registration - GFO Member
- $45 through Apr 15th, $55 thereafter - Note: if you have a promo or discount code, enter with your credit card information at checkout.
Meet Our Speaker:
Our speaker, Doctor Fritz Juengling, earned his doctorate in Germanic Philology from the University of Minnesota, where his studies included Swedish, Norwegian, other Germanic languages, and Medieval Latin. He is the former head of the International Team at the FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City. Dr. Juengling is an Accredited Genealogist® for Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Luxembourg through the International Commission for the Accreditation of Professional Genealogists. He currently operates a genealogy research and translation business.
