Elisabeth Thorsell
Elisabeth Thorsell is a Swedish writer, professional genealogist and a veteran within the Swedish genealogical movement.
A Genealogical CV
Thorsell started her genealogical research in 1975. By the end of the 1970s it had developed into nearly a full-time occupation. She explained in an interview in 2007: "It was my maternal grandmother Elisabeth Nathorst and her family stories that made me interested in the past and in the lives of people My father Sven Dalhammar also made me interested to know more about our family." In 1980 Thorsell became treasurer and later the chairman of the Östgöta Genealogiska Förening. After having moved with her family at the year-end 1984–1985 from the city of Linköping to Stockholm, she was appointed secretary of the Genealogiska Föreningen in 1985. She was a member of the election committee participating in the foundation of the Federation of Swedish Genealogical Societies. She became a member of its first board of directors and from 1986 to 1996 she was employed as the Federation's secretary. From 1992 to 2001 Thorsell was the editor of the Federation's genealogical magazine Släkthistoriskt forum.Since January 2004, she is the editor of the quarterly magazine Swedish American Genealogist, published by the Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center in Rock Island, Illinois. From 1987 to 2000 she edited the genealogical book series Svenska släktkalendern. Since 2002, she publishes the electronic, genealogical magazine Vi släktforskare, and she is, since 2007, the president of the Svenska Genealogiska Samfundet, a genealogical society with the sole purpose of publishing quality-assured articles on genealogical, biographical and related topics. As a professional genealogist specializing in emigration research she has primarily been researching Swedish families for Americans with a Swedish origin.