About

In late 2020 I started exploring genealogy. Started with myself, my parents and siblings, then my grandparents, and then I worked my way backwards.

In the summer of 2021 I received a DNA test as a birthday present from the whole family. That's when my journey really started. I made contact with relatives on mainly my biological grandfather's side, who I didn't know existed.

By late 2023, I had added over 5,500 people to my family tree, including unmarried people. In mid-December I started working on this genealogy site, and a few weeks later I launched the website. Since then I have been almost continuously researching and improving the website.

In April 2024 I started to remove all married people who are not related to me (partners and close married people not included).

On my father's side

Buzz Aldrin

Adam Gäfvert and Catharina Ericsdotter had 9 children. Two of them are Sara and Henrik. Sara is fully related to Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. and Henrik is fully related to my grandfather.

Henrik is my great-grandmother's great-great-grandfather (10 generations). Sara is Edwin's great great great great great grandmother (8 generations).

The second man on the moon also married into my family via Erik Atterström. Erik married Maria Aldrin, who is Sara Gäfvert's son's great-granddaughter's great-granddaughter (7 generations). Erik is my great-great-grandmother's uncle (6 generations).

Christer Sjögren

The singer Christer Sjögren is related to the Finnish-Swedish legend Lång-Kristoffer (a nickname he has for his height). Lång-Kristoffer is said to be the ancestor of the population of Värmland. He had a sister, Ingeborg, and she is Christer's great-great-great-great-great-great grandmother (11 generations).

Monica Zetterlund

The actress and singer Monica Zetterlund was also related to Lång-Kristoffer. He was her great-great-great grandfather (8 generations). She played Ulrika in Jan Troell's Utvandrarna (1971) and Nybyggarna (1972), and the film Monica Z from 2013 tells what her life was like.

Björn Skifs

The singer, actor and presenter Björn Skifs is also related to Lång-Kristoffer, on 7 different branches. His great-grandmother's grandfather (Jan) and his sister (Lisa) were both related to Erik Christoffersson Honkainen (Lång-Kristoffer's one son) on 2 different branches. Hold on now!

Erik had children with 2 women, Malin and Kristina, all sons (what I have found). Erik and Malin's one son, Johan's great-grandson, Christoffer, was the father of Jan and Lisa (Johan was their grandmother's father). Erik and Kristina's son, Sigfrid, had 5 daughters (what I have found). One, Annika, was Jan and Lisa's grandfather's mother.

On my mother's side

On my mother's side, there are no celebrities that I can link to the family tree yet. Apart from the fact that my mother and I share the same DNA as the medieval English kings King Richard III and his brother, King Edward IV, there are only general historical moments that happened when the relatives were alive.

Älvsborg on my grandmother's side and Skåne on my grandfather's side, and anyone who has paid attention in school history lessons knows that Denmark was very keen to own Skåne, among other things. These wars, especially the Scanian War, took place when my relatives were living there.

I use Gramps to manage my findings. Have an active subscription to ArkivDigital where I spend most of my time when the genealogy is done. Have uploaded my DNA to MyHeritage and FamilyTreeDNA to get more DNA results. Did the DNA test at 23andMe.

Collects only the essentials about each person, which is more specifically the following:

• Pictures (portraits, group photos, marriages, etc.)

• Direct links to birth and death records

• When and where the person was born, baptised, married, died and buried

The reason why I stick to what is listed above, is because it otherwise takes far too long to do genealogical research. It is the foundation that is significant, everything else can be added afterwards.

Are we related? How fun! :) Find yourself in my family tree and select "Make public". In the unlikely event that you cannot find yourself in your family tree, but you have me in yours or know that we are related, please contact me by email.

When I am having a conversation with a relative about our relatives, whether it is via a phone call or face-to-face, I will record them.

All recordings will be made legally and will only be handled by me.

If I want to post, for example, a story about a relative to E.P.S.K., I will of course ask permission first. Nothing will be published until the person I have spoken to has agreed to it.

I created this web page from scratch to showcase my genealogical findings.

The website title, E.P.S.K., stands for Edgren Palmgren Sjölin Kron. Edgren and Palmgren are on my father's side, and Sjölin and Kron are on my mother's side.

The people who are still alive today, or at least younger than 100 years (if the date of death is not available), are selected as private. This is thanks to the GDPR. However, you can go to private profiles to go further back (or forward) among the generations.

Bugs and problems may occur

The website is far from flawless. Expect that some functions will not work properly. If this happens, please do not hesitate to contact me. Please describe which page you were on and what the problem was, so that I can troubleshoot and fix it.

You can contact me via the contact page whose link can also be seen in the footer.