Anecdotes

EnglishI was born 1927 in Berlin, Germany. 195l I came to Sweden where I have lived since.At first I worked as a building engineer. Later I started a small company: Collings Systems. During the 70th I was politically interested in local government and became the first immigrant mayor of Botkyrka a municipality in Sweden, South of Stockholm, of about 70 000 inhabitants During the 80th I was Chief of Tourism of Botkyrka. Already during the 70th I became interested in BBS´s and computer communication activities. During the earlier days of the Internet I became interested in Genealogy and started the Rootweb Mailing List for the Colling Family Name for which I have been the moderator since.Through this list I have come in contact with many interesting Collings – from history and from today. Collings do not have to be related because the name is generic. But there were many on the list who wondered who I was. Thus I wrote these Anecdotes -even if my life has not been so interesting as others.