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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[edit | edit source]

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

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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?[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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

Jurisdictions and Records[edit | edit source]

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

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

County and Parish Pages[edit | edit source]

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

Template:Counties and Provinces of Sweden

Counties Provinces

Sweden FamilySearch Wikiprojects[edit | edit source]

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:

Related Country Pages[edit | edit source]

Swedish American

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Swedish Wiki User Group Meetings
Svenskt Släktforsknings - Kalendar
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FamilySearch Indexing of Swedish Church Records

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 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|Swedish Occupation: Backstugusittare]]. <br>See '''previous''' featured articles at: [[Sweden: Previous Featured Articles|Sweden: Previous Featured Articles]]
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 *[[Beyond Parish Registers:A Case Study]]
 *[[Sweden: Biography|Biographies]]
 *[[Sweden Cemeteries|Cemeteries]]
 *[[Sweden Census|Census]]
 *[[Sweden Church Records|Church Records]]
 *[[Sweden Citing Sources|Citing Sources]]
 *[[Sweden: Civil Registration|Civil Registration]]
 *[[Swedish Crime and Punishment|Crime and Punishment]]
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 *[[Sweden: Gazetteers|Gazetteers]]
 *[[Sweden: Genealogy|Genealogies]]
 *[[Sweden Geography|Geography]]
 *[[Sweden Geography (Historical)|Geography (Historical)]]
 *[[Sweden Handwriting|Handwriting]]
 *[[Sweden Heraldry|Heraldry]]
 *[[Sweden History|History]]
 *[[History of Swedish Counties|History of Swedish Counties]]
 *[[Sweden: Land and Property Records|Land and Property]]
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 *[[Sweden: Maps|Maps]]
 *[[Sweden: Medieval Collections at the Swedish National Archives|Medieval]]
 *[[Sweden Military Records|Military]]
 *[[Swedish Money, Weights, and Measures for Family History Research|Money, Weights, and Measures]]
 *[[Sweden Names, Personal|Naming Customs]]
 **[[Sweden: Soldier Names|Soldier Names]]
 *[[Sweden Newspapers|Newspapers]]
 *[[Sweden: Nobility|Nobility]]
 *[[Sweden: Occupations|Occupations]]
 *[[Sweden: Periodicals|Periodicals]]
 *[[Sweden Place Names|Place Names]]
 *[[Swedish Privacy Laws in Relation to Genealogy|Privacy Laws]]
 *[[Sweden: Probate Records|Probate Records]]