HistorySheWrote on Nostr: I'm having a #genealogy meltdown. Searching for a German surname in US papers and ...

I'm having a #genealogy meltdown. Searching for a German surname in US papers and found an article in a #Swedish language newspaper about a suicide in 1885. My head is spinning. As there is no creativity with first names, next is to figure out if he is one of "mine".

And what is eka in this context? Oak?

Skyndsamt rodde en fiskare ut i sin eka, men innan han nådde självmördaren var det för sent.

Hastily a fisherman rowed out in his oak, but before he reached the suicide it was too late.