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=== Additional Records === | |||
==== Kyrkoplikt ==== | |||
''Kyrkoplikt'' (religious duty) has its origins as a personal act of reconciliation with God and the members of your home congregation. It was necessary to rejoin the congregation and to receive forgiveness of sins. After a person declared their guilt, and asked for forgiveness by God and their congregation, promising penance and improvement the priest could grant forgiveness. | |||
The practice of kyrkoplikt was also used as a punishment by the civil courts for a variety of offenses such as blasphemy, battery, abusing others, theft, immorality, bearing false witness, and so on. For example, a person who had been pardoned from a death sentence could have been judged to pay fines. If the fines could not be paid, the punishment could have been changed to corporal punishment along with krykoplikt. In this context the kyrkoplikt was seen as a punishment of humiliation. Through legislation the kyrkoplikt was abolished on May 4, 1855.<ref>"Kyrkoplikt", ''Nordisk Familjebok'', Stockholm : Nordisk Familjboks Förlags Aktiebolag, 1911. provided by Projekt Runeberg at [http://runeberg.org/nfbo/0273.html Projekt Runeberg].</ref> In 1918 all forms of "church punishment" were discontinued as punishment from a civil court. In earlier times kyrkoplikt was also called "kyrkliga handling" meaning a church action. | |||
There were two types of kyrkoplikt, ''uppenbara'' and ''enskilda". | |||
*'''Uppenbara kyrkoplikt''' meant that a person had to go up and stand on the ''pliktpallen'' (duty stool) in front of their home congregation during church services and acknowledge their guilt and express repentance. | |||
*'''Enskilda kyrkoplikt''' meant that a person resumed association with the congregation and had to meet with the priest and a few selected members of the congregation in the sacristy (the priest’s dressing room where the vestments and vessels are stored) or in the church either before or after the church service. During the meeting the person would acknowledge their guilt and express their repentance.<ref>Wikipedia (Swedish). [http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyrkoplikt Kyrkoplikt]. Accessed 26 September 2011.</ref> | |||
===Missing Records=== | ===Missing Records=== | ||
If all the records for a parish begin at a later date for example 1800, either: 1- the original records have been destroyed or 2- this parish was created in 1800 and you should be searching in another parish record collection prior to 1800. <br>A good reference to see what happened is: Sveriges församlingar genom tiderna. This is available in book form and online at [http://www.skatteverket.se/folkbokforing/sverigesforsamlingargenomtiderna/forteckning.4.18e1b10334ebe8bc80003999.html Sveriges församlingar genom tiderna]. | If all the records for a parish begin at a later date for example 1800, either: 1- the original records have been destroyed or 2- this parish was created in 1800 and you should be searching in another parish record collection prior to 1800. <br>A good reference to see what happened is: Sveriges församlingar genom tiderna. This is available in book form and online at [http://www.skatteverket.se/folkbokforing/sverigesforsamlingargenomtiderna/forteckning.4.18e1b10334ebe8bc80003999.html Sveriges församlingar genom tiderna]. You can see a listing of all the books and records belonging to a parish record collection by doing a search in the Swedish National Archive's online catalog called: [https://sok.riksarkivet.se/nad Nationell Arkivdatabas]. | ||
You can see a listing of all the books and records belonging to a parish record collection by doing a search in the Swedish National Archive's online catalog called: [https://sok.riksarkivet.se/nad Nationell Arkivdatabas]. | |||
If the local parish records were destroyed you might check with the Diocese archives (Domkapitel arkiv). These collections include many records from the parishes within the diocese such as diocese instruction, parish priest replacement, church residential properties, visits to the local parish by diocese officials, and donation records. The domkapitel was the diocese's central legal and administrative authority. They were government agencies until 2000 when the church and state were separated. | If the local parish records were destroyed you might check with the Diocese archives (Domkapitel arkiv). These collections include many records from the parishes within the diocese such as diocese instruction, parish priest replacement, church residential properties, visits to the local parish by diocese officials, and donation records. The domkapitel was the diocese's central legal and administrative authority. They were government agencies until 2000 when the church and state were separated. | ||