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Welcome to www.swetland.org,
the Swetland Family Association's home on the World Wide Web. It is our mission to link you with your Swetland/Sweetland/Sweatland
ancestry and others that share the same name as you. And with that statement, be sure to try
to attend one of our family reunions.
As more information becomes available on up-coming reunions, be sure
to check the Reunions page.
Hello, I’m Jamie R. Swetland and I thought it
was time that the World Wide Web had a place to find out more about the
Swetland Family Association and what we are about. It is our hope
that many Swetland, Sweetland, Sweatland, and other variations of our
family name-sake and their relations can find their way to this website and
to us, the Swetland Family Association.
There can be many variations of the namesake based
upon people’s grammar, spelling, and writing from those that have
passed before us. Consider these for
example: Svetland, Swetlin,
Sweetlin, Svetlana, Sweatlana. Take
a look at your handwriting. I have
noticed sometimes I do not finish off my‘d’ all the way and
someone could read Swetland for Swetlana.
Or what if you write the ‘w’ quickly at it looks like a
‘v’. Or someone
phonetically spells out what sounds like ‘lin’ when the person
spoke ‘land’; Swetlin for example.
For the Swetland Family Association, you will see
that we refer to it as just stated or as the Swe(e)/(a)tland Family
Association to try to be all inclusive of the three main spellings. We chose the Swetland Family Association
as the official naming to be indoctrinated in our accounts and original
documents as it goes back to the first formation of an such organization of
the ‘family’ in 1896 by the Swe(e)/(a)tlands that attended the
first documented reunion. Regardless
of the spelling of the name, be sure that we accept, honor, and love any
and all with any of the spellings of the surname.
Please, take the opportunity, now that you have found
this website, to bookmark us (Ctrl-D will work as a shortcut) and browse
this site at your leisure. Review
the information provided. When information is available on other websites,
we will try to direct you there to eliminate multiple copies of items being
on the internet compounding your searches or just duplicating someone
else’s hard work. I will take
comments and suggestions on design, structure, and content of this website
into careful consideration in updating and expanding this site. So,
please, be sure to send along an e-mail with your comments to me and I will
do all I can to incorporate suggestions.
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