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Some examples of Swedish biographies are: | Some examples of Swedish biographies are: | ||
''Svenskt biografiskt lexikon, (Swedish Biographical Encyclopedia)'' | '''Svenskt biografiskt lexikon, (Swedish Biographical Encyclopedia),''' Stockholm, Sweden: Albert Bonniers förlag, 1918-.<br> | ||
''The Scandinavian Biographical Archives''. New York, New York, USA: K.G. Saur, 1989. The second section contains Swedish and Finnish biographical | '''The Scandinavian Biographical Archives'''. New York, New York, USA: K.G. Saur, 1989. The second section contains Swedish and Finnish biographical information. Both sections are in alphabetical order. | ||
''' | '''Minister Histories: Herdaminne''' | ||
A herdaminne is a collection of personal histories of the ministers within a diocese, listing the earliest ones to more recent ones. The information generally includes birth date and place, marriage information, names of children, and other details about his life and death. | |||
===Access to Biographies=== | |||
Swedish biographical information can be found through many sources. The largest collections are of course in Sweden with the Royal Library, National or Regional Archives, and the University Libraries. There is a great digitization effort with [http://runeberg.org/ The Runeberg Project] to digitize Scandinavian literature.<br> | |||
The Family History Library has great collection of Swedish genealogical biographies as well. They are generally found by searching for the locality you need in the Family History Library Catalog and choosing the topic Biography or Genealogy. The biographical work is | |||
'''SWEDEN - BIOGRAPHY''' | '''SWEDEN - BIOGRAPHY''' | ||