Beyond Parish Registers:A Case Study: Difference between revisions

These types of records do not exist for all areas of Sweden, but, as will be seen, they can be&nbsp;of great value when extant.&nbsp; They appear to be the foreunner of the ''Husförhörslängder'' (Clerical surveys).&nbsp; Since the purpose of the Catechism record was to list the names of, or at least indicate there were young people of confirmation age in training, not every person in the household will be named or marked.<br>

A study of the catechism record for&nbsp;Västra Karaby parish show&nbsp;their format was to list the&nbsp;names of the heads of household and the names&nbsp;of confirmation age&nbsp;children who&nbsp;resided in that household.&nbsp; These could be&nbsp;their own child (children), and/or the farmhands and farmgirls working for them,&nbsp; It is possible the head of the house was responsible for seeing that these young people knew their Lutheran catechism. Because not every household had confirmation age children, the catechism lists do not necessarily reflect all households in the parish.  

For&nbsp;Västra Karaby parish the lists useful for our searches were those of&nbsp;1696 (no date), 13 Jun 1699 and 4 Jul 1701.&nbsp; Each list was completley searched.&nbsp; Unfortunately, the names of the farms and villages were not recorded, so we&nbsp;searched the whole parish' list looking for the first and patronymic names we knew.&nbsp;&nbsp;As was hoped, the information found did allow us to&nbsp;fill in more of the family members!:  

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