Researching Viveca Sten
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The name Viveca means "Full of life" and is of Latin origin.
Records of Viveca Sten on Ancestry
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DNA
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Viveca Sten and the Sten Family Tree
Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Sten Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Sten family tree.
Look at Parish Records for Viveca Sten at Find My Past.
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Study the LDS Database for records about Viveca Sten.
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Sten Family History Databases
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Sten Forums
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Miscellaneous Sten Databases
Search the Ellis Island Database for information on Viveca Sten. This database contains over 25 million immigration records detailing passengers arriving in the United States of America.
Some Famous People called Viveca Sten
Viveca Sten
Viveca Sten (née Bergstedt; 18 June 1959, in Stockholm) is a Swedish writer and lawyer. She has a law degree from Stockholm University and has an MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics. Previously, she worked at Scandinavian Airlines, has had a highly successful legal career as a lawyer and held the position as General Counsel at PostNord (the Swedish & Danish mail service), but left in 2011 to focus on her writing. Viveca lives with her family just north of Stockholm. Since 1917, Viveca´s family have spent all their summers at Sandhamn a small settlement in the central-peripheral part of the Stockholm Archipelago where her crime fiction novels are set frequently. She is perhaps best known for the book series Sandhamn Murders.
Source: Viveca Sten, Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
Other names that sound a bit like Sten
Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.
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