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 advanced 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!

Featured Content

A new Swedish occupation page has been added called Backstugusittare. The word backstugusittare is a old term for people in rural areas that lived on someone else's land, or on the commons in a small cottage or hut. See the full article at: Swedish Occupation: Backstugusittare.
See previous featured articles at: Sweden: Previous Featured Articles

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.

What are you looking for?

1. Birth Information 2. Marriage Information 3. Death Information 4. Records showing Family Structure 5. Records of Moving and Migration

6. Place of Origin in Sweden 7. People in Major Cities 8. Information about soldiers or sailors 9. Father of Illegitimate Child 10. Historical Maps 11. Databases that might help 12.Post-1900 Research

Research Tools

Listing of Swedish records on FamilySearch.org Abbreviations in Family History Sources Dictionaries District List Feast Day Calendar (Moveable) Feast Day Lists (Fixed and Moveable) Gazetteers Given Names List Maps Parish List

Parish Pages (Alphabetical Order) Parish Register Headings Research Strategies Stockholm Translation Tools Type the Letters Å, Ä, and Ö Websites Word Lists, Swedish and Latin

Jurisdictions and Records

       Civil Juris.            Judicial Juris.           Military Juris.      Church Juris.

       Civil Rec.              Judicial Rec.       Army / Naval Rec.    Church Rec.

County and Parish Pages

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

Counties                                                       Provinces

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.

Here's a quick reference to general Wiki activities:

Expand an article or short page Create a new article Categorize articles

Add external links to articles Add internal links to articles

Related Country Pages

Finland

Denmark

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 Find us on Facebook Ask a question Learn what's new Build the community

Topics

Archives and Libraries Beyond Parish Registers:A Case Study Biographies Census Church Records Citing Sources Civil Registration Crime and Punishment Directories Emigration and Immigration Encyclopedias and Dictionaries Gazetteers Genealogies Heraldry History History of Swedish Counties Land and Property Language Latin in Swedish Records Laws L.D.S. Records Maps Medieval Military Money, Weights, and Measures Naming Customs Soldier Names Newspapers Nobility Occupations Periodicals Place Names Privacy Laws Probate Records Schools Social Life and Customs Societies Study Resources Surnames and Family Organizations Taxation

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