{"id":27198,"date":"2024-11-26T15:12:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T14:12:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flyttatillboden.se\/foreningar\/boden-overlulea-research-association\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T11:34:37","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T09:34:37","slug":"boden-overlulea-research-association","status":"publish","type":"foreningar","link":"https:\/\/flyttatillboden.se\/en\/foreningar\/boden-overlulea-research-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Boden \u00d6verlule\u00e5 Research Association"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Boden \u00d6verlule\u00e5 Research Association (B\u00d6FF) was founded in 1992. The association&#8217;s purpose is to promote interest in historical research, primarily genealogy and local history research, and to work towards better conditions for such research. <br\/><br\/>B\u00d6FF conducts its activities in R\u00e5b\u00e4cksg\u00e5rden at the Local Heritage area where the association also sells books and self-produced materials.<br\/><br\/>The association&#8217;s dominant activity is studies, both individual and collective, related to genealogy and local history. We also conduct lectures and activities such as Archives Day and member trips where we visit places of cultural and historical interest. <br\/><br\/><em>&#8220;History is who we are and why we are the way we are.&#8221;<br\/><\/em>David McCullough, American historian<em><br\/><\/em><br\/><strong>We have all at some point asked ourselves why things turned out the way they did:<br\/><\/strong><br\/>\u2022 How and why did my family come to Boden and Norrbotten?<br\/>\u2022 Why does it look the way it does in Boden\/Heden\/S\u00e4vast?<br\/>\u2022 Am I also related to Gustav Vasa?<br\/><br\/><strong>The Research Association can help you find answers to these questions. We offer, among other things, the following courses and study circles:<\/strong><br\/><br\/>\u2022 Beginner and advanced courses in genealogy<br\/>\u2022 Reading old handwriting<br\/>\u2022 DNA genealogy<br\/><br\/><strong>Do you have your own area of interest\/research?<br\/><\/strong><br\/>Several of our members conduct their own research within their area of interest. Andr\u00e9e Gillberg is currently researching photos from the turn of the last century. Other members who have conducted research have written books about&#8230;  <br\/><br\/>\u2022 Brobyn, Heden and other villages in the municipality<br\/>\u2022 The Main Line and other railways in Upper Norrland<br\/><br\/>These, and many other books with local historical connections, are available for purchase at R\u00e5b\u00e4cksg\u00e5rden.<\/p>\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":24589,"template":"","categories":[169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27198","foreningar","type-foreningar","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cultural-association"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyttatillboden.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/foreningar\/27198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyttatillboden.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/foreningar"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyttatillboden.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/foreningar"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyttatillboden.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flyttatillboden.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyttatillboden.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flyttatillboden.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}