Sweden Genealogy

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Welcome to the Sweden page of the FamilySearch Wiki. FamilySearch Wiki is a community website dedicated to helping people throughout the world learn how to find their ancestors. Through the Sweden page you can learn how to find, use, and analyze Swedish records of genealogical value. The content is variously targeted to beginners, intermediate, and expert researchers. Please visit the help page to learn more about using the site. The Sweden Page is a work in progress, your contributions and feedback are essential!

Getting started with Sweden research

• Getting Started
• What's the next step?
• Finding your ancestor in the records
• Tips for Beginners
• Tips for Swedish American Researchers

See the tutorials at FamilySearch Learning Center on Scandinavian Research and on Reading Scandinavian Gothic Handwritten Records.

Featured Content

As you do your Swedish family history research, sometimes you will see a letter associated to a county. In Sweden these letters are called Länsbokstav which is literally translated as “county letter”. The system of assigning a unique letter (or letters) to every county began with automobile registration in 1916 and continued up until 1973. Read more at: Swedish County Letters
See previous featured articles at: Sweden: Previous Featured Articles

Jurisdictions

Click on the map to navigate into the county, province, or parish pages.

Counties                                                       Provinces

To learn more about other jurisdictions in Sweden see Sweden: Jurisdictions

Research Tools

Listing of all records collections for Sweden on FamilySearch.org Abbreviations in Family History Sources Dictionaries District List Feast Day Calendar (Moveable) Feast Day Lists (Fixed and Moveable) Finding a Place of Origin Gazetteers Given Names List History of Swedish Counties Maps

Parish List Parish Pages (Alphabetical Order) Parish Register and Household Exam Roll Headings Record Selection Table Research Strategies Stockholm Translation Tools Type the Letters Å, Ä, and Ö Websites Word Lists, Swedish and Latin Latin in Swedish Genealogical Records

Sweden FamilySearch Wikiprojects

Are you interested to improve the content for Sweden in the FamilySearch Wiki? You can help by doing work individually or by participating on a WikiProject with the Swedish User Group. Check the WikiProject Sweden  page to see if there is a project you are interested in.

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Finland

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Norway

Iceland

Scandinavia

Swedish American

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Community

Swedish Wiki User Group Meetings Svenskt Släktforsknings - Kalendar U.S. Events Join a Community of Sweden Researchers! Facebook and or Skype FamilySearch Indexing of Swedish Church Records

Topics

Archives and Libraries Beyond Parish Registers:A Case Study Biographies Cemeteries Census Church Records Birth and Christening Engagement and Marriage Death and Burial Household Examinations Citing Sources Civil Registration Court Records Crime and Punishment Directories Emigration and Immigration Encyclopedias and Dictionaries Gazetteers Genealogies Geography Geography (Historical) Handwriting Heraldry History Land and Property Language Laws L.D.S. Records Maps Medieval Military Naming Customs Soldier Names Newspapers Nobility Occupations Periodicals Place Names Privacy Laws Probate Records Record Selection Table Schools Social Life and Customs Societies Study Resources Surnames and Family Organizations Swedish Church Records (FamilySearch Historical Records) Taxation Vital Records Find us on Facebook Ask a question Learn what's new Build the community

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