Gröna Stubben’s Heraldry & Genealogy

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I work with heraldry and genealogy on full time since May 1998 in my private firm Gröna Stubben. Down below you find information about: (1) New depictions of your coat of arms, (2) Have your Swedish ancestors carried a coat of arms? (3) Tracing your Swedish ancestry.

(1) New depictions of your coat of arms
I can offer you new depictions of your coat of arms for decoration, cards, letter-paper, bookplates, paintings of your family tree, in short illustrations which require heraldic specialization. Down below you can see a depiction of the knightly Austrian family Luxetich von Lichtenfeldt’s coat of arms, as an example of my art. I am a board member of Heraldiska Samfundet (Societas Artis Heraldicae Suecana), board member of Svenska Exlibrisföreningen (The Swedish Bookplate Association), member of the editorial committée of Vapenbilden, the journal of Svenska Heraldiska Föreningen (The Swedish Heraldry Association), and member of Heraldiska Sällskapet (Societas Heraldica Scandinavica). Examples of my depictions of coats of arms.

(2) Have your Swedish ancestors carried a coat of arms?
My homepage Gröna stubbens heraldik för ofrälse offers a broad introduction to heraldry in Sweden, with emphasis on heraldry for commoners, in Swedish though. In the Armorial section, arms in use today I have listed coats of arms of commoners that exist in the country today. They are over six hundred.
     There are also thousands of old coat of arms, used mostly in the 17th and 18th century by priests, officers and officials and the like. An index of known such coat of arms, forgotten today but always possible to revive in those families, you find in Armorial section, old arms. If a person, after all necessary research, find that no one have assumed a coat of arms earlier in his or her family, it's also never too late for him or her to assume a coat of arms today. As a British heraldrist once said: ”A family must start at one time or another.” I assist in such matters too, in those cases the family has Swedish origin.

(3) Tracing your Swedish ancestry
I help you trace your Swedish roots. I work step by step, starting from the facts you've got. After four hours you get the first result and can see how much information you got for your money. After every step you chose if you want to continue with a new one. My prize is 300 SEK (about $ 23) including VAT per hour effective time, and I always work with a research session of four hours at the time. You pay after getting the information in your hands (by ordinary mail), and if I couldn't help you at all, you pay nothing at all. Here below is one example of what you can get.

Some notes about the Carlson family 1826-87. Two hours research on Karl Fredriksson (1790-1887), farmer at Bjälebo, Kristdala (Kalmar län), and his family, and two hours on Peter Petersson (b 1822), farmer in Skepperstad parish (Jönköpings län) = one four-hour step. 6 pages and 2 illustrations (143 kB).

For all types of questions, you are welcome to contact me.