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How to Find the Records

• 1850-1945 Sweden, Deaths at MyHeritage - index & images ($)

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• Buried in Sweden (Begravda I Sverige)
  

The source to create this database is the gravregisters from all over the kingdom. There are
5,300,000 entries in the database. This database is on DVD available through Sveriges Släktforskarförbund.

Historical Background

Beginning in 1860, the government required church ministers annually to copy the birth, marriage, and death information in their parish registers onto special forms and send them to the Statistiska Centralbyrån (SCB or Central Bureau of Statistics).

There are number of ways to locate these extracts.

Civil authorities in Sweden did not begin registering their own, original vital statistics until 1950. And in 1991 the responsibility for keeping vital records was transferred to local tax offices (lokala skattemyndigheten).

Information Recorded in the Records

Death Records

• Name of the deceased
• Place of residence
• Age
• Cause of death
• Occasionally names of the parents, especially the name of the father with a deceased child