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=== Background  ===


===Archives===
==Archives==


'''Evangelical Lutheran Church in America'''<br>ELCA Regional Archives<br>Region 8: General Synod for Central Pennsylvania, Delaware-Maryland and Metropolitan Washington, D.C.<br>Elwood W. Christ<br>A.R. Wentz Library<br>Lutheran Theological Seminary<br>Gettysburg, PA 17325<br>Phone: 717-334-6286, Ext. 2131<br>Email: echrist@ltsg.edu<br>Website: http://www.abs.net/~lhs/  
'''Evangelical Lutheran Church in America'''<br>ELCA Regional Archives<br>Region 8: General Synod for Central Pennsylvania, Delaware-Maryland and Metropolitan Washington, D.C.<br>Elwood W. Christ<br>A.R. Wentz Library<br>Lutheran Theological Seminary<br>Gettysburg, PA 17325<br>Phone: 717-334-6286, Ext. 2131<br>Email: echrist@ltsg.edu<br>Website: http://www.abs.net/~lhs/  




===Cemeteries===
==Cemeteries==


'''New Castle County'''  
'''New Castle County'''  
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Old Swedes Cemetery in Wilmington&nbsp; [http://www.eancestry.org/showmap.php?cemeteryID=74 http://www.eancestry.org/showmap.php?cemeteryID=74]  
Old Swedes Cemetery in Wilmington&nbsp; [http://www.eancestry.org/showmap.php?cemeteryID=74 http://www.eancestry.org/showmap.php?cemeteryID=74]  


===Churches===
==Churches==


<br>The Swedish American churches listed below have microfilmed records in the Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center at the Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. These microfilms are not available via interlibrary loan but may be searched in person or a search may be requested for a fee. See [http://www.augustana.edu/x13917.xml http://www.augustana.edu/x13917.xml] &nbsp;for years of availability, guidelines, and research request forms. <br>  
<br>The Swedish American churches listed below have microfilmed records in the Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center at the Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. These microfilms are not available via interlibrary loan but may be searched in person or a search may be requested for a fee. See [http://www.augustana.edu/x13917.xml http://www.augustana.edu/x13917.xml] &nbsp;for years of availability, guidelines, and research request forms. <br>  
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Grace Baptist Church<br>Wilmington, Delaware
Grace Baptist Church<br>Wilmington, Delaware


=== Demographics  ===
== Websites  ==
 
=== Societies  ===
 
=== Websites  ===


*[[New Sweden|See article New Sweden]]  
*[[New Sweden|See article New Sweden]]  
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*[http://www.colonialswedes.org/ Swedish Colonial Society] - history, churches, and settlers.<br>  
*[http://www.colonialswedes.org/ Swedish Colonial Society] - history, churches, and settlers.<br>  
*Peter Stebbins Craig, "1671 Census of Delaware," in [http://books.google.com/books?id=MIeozQv21_sC Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, 40 (Spring/Summer 1998)]: 197-231, and continued in [http://books.google.com/books?id=tAY2ahFxE1sC Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, 40 (Fall/Winter 1998)]: 314-60. Biographical sketches of over 175 mostly Swedish and Finnish residents on the west side of the Delaware River from what is now New Castle County, Delaware, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Also includes a few families in Zwaanendael (now Lewes, Sussex, Delaware), and east of the Delaware River in present day New Jersey.<br>
*Peter Stebbins Craig, "1671 Census of Delaware," in [http://books.google.com/books?id=MIeozQv21_sC Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, 40 (Spring/Summer 1998)]: 197-231, and continued in [http://books.google.com/books?id=tAY2ahFxE1sC Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, 40 (Fall/Winter 1998)]: 314-60. Biographical sketches of over 175 mostly Swedish and Finnish residents on the west side of the Delaware River from what is now New Castle County, Delaware, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Also includes a few families in Zwaanendael (now Lewes, Sussex, Delaware), and east of the Delaware River in present day New Jersey.<br>
 
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