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Historically, Swedish records were created in the town where your ancestor lived or in the parish where your ancestor lived. Therefore it was extremely important that you learn your ancestor's location before searching for your ancestor's records. But this is less important today, because of indexing. Indexing makes record searching much easier as it gives you other ways to search for your ancestors. | Historically, Swedish records were created in the town where your ancestor lived or in the parish where your ancestor lived. Therefore it was extremely important that you learn your ancestor's location before searching for your ancestor's records. But this is less important today, because of indexing. Indexing makes record searching much easier as it gives you other ways to search for your ancestors. | ||
Not all Swedish records are indexed. | Not all Swedish records are indexed. Therefore you might not find your ancestor by doing a Search. But a Search is much easier that you looking thru the records, its worthwhile giving it a try. Who knows, you might get lucky. But if you don't find any records by doing a Search or don't find a particular record you expected, then doing a manual search is call for. That means you will need to find your ancestor's location first. | ||
But its worthwhile giving it a try, | |||
=== Strategy=== | === Strategy=== | ||