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Finding a Place of Origin in Sweden (view source)
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Finding the location where your ancestors lived has been an extremely import step to finding their records. It is less important now with indexing. If you are lucky enough that your ancestors records are indexed, then you can | Finding the location where your ancestors lived has been an extremely import step to finding their records. It is less important now with indexing. If you are lucky enough that your ancestors records are indexed, then you can find their records even if you don't know where they lived. Doing a computer search on indexed records is easy enough that you ought to try it first, just in case. If the records of your ancestors are not indexed, then you must do a manual search using the ideas described in the rest of this article. | ||
Descendants of Swedish ancestors often begin their climb up the family tree with the question, “I know my ancestor came from Sweden…but where do I go from here?” Church records (kyrkoböcker) are the primary source for names, dates, and places of birth, marriage, and death in Scandinavia. Nearly everyone who lived in Sweden was recorded in a church record. Tracing one's ancestors in Sweden, therefore, depends on finding the name of the parish where they lived or were born. | Descendants of Swedish ancestors often begin their climb up the family tree with the question, “I know my ancestor came from Sweden…but where do I go from here?” Church records (kyrkoböcker) are the primary source for names, dates, and places of birth, marriage, and death in Scandinavia. Nearly everyone who lived in Sweden was recorded in a church record. Tracing one's ancestors in Sweden, therefore, depends on finding the name of the parish where they lived or were born. | ||