Cemeteries in Sweden

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Online Resources

• BillionGraves Index - index and images
• BillionGraves Sweden page - photos and GPS locations of grave markers
• Find A Grave Index - index and images
• Find A Grave Sweden Page - photos and GPS locations of grave markers
• Swedishgenealogyguide The goal of The Swedish Genealogy Guide is to empower people who are looking for their Swedish ancestors.
• Grav.Genealogi The tombstone inventory is a national tombstone database.
• Hittagraven Stockholm search among the buried.
• Hittagraven Here you can get help finding a specific grave through the search function which contains about 185,000 graves and about 600,000 graves at Stockholm's 11 public burial sites.

Jewish Cemeteries

• JewishGen has an inventory you can check. Click on Sweden.
• Gothenburg
• Jewish Heritage
• Jewish Cemeteries in Sweden
• Flickr The land for the cemetery, named Aronsberg after Aaron Isaac, had been acquired in 1776.

Military Cemeteries

• CWGC Commonwealth War Graves Commission, Malmo Jewish Cemetery and many other cemeteries.
• Skogskyrkogarden Skogskyrkogården is a cemetery located in the Gamla Enskede district south of central Stockholm, Sweden.
• Kviberg Cemetery Although Sweden remained neutral throughout both world wars, a number of Commonwealth servicemen lie buried in her cemeteries and churchyards.
• Ancestry($) Sweden, Find A Grave Index, 1800s-Current
• Wikipedia Kungliga begravningsplatsen

Individual Cemeteries

• Begravning Stockholm City's websites
• Svenskakyrkan

The following is a list from Wikipedia of cemeteries in Sweden.

• Galärvarvskyrkogården (Swedish)
• Stockholm Katarina kyrkogård (Swedish)
• Stockholm Kungliga begravningsplatsen (Swedish)
• Stockholm Norra begravningsplatsen (Swedish)
• Sandsborgskyrkogården (Swedish)
• Stockholm Skogskyrkogården (Swedish)
• Stockholm Södra kyrkogården (Swedish)
• Nacka Uppsala gamla kyrkogård (Swedish)
• Göteborg begravningsplatsen (Swedish)
• Wikipedia Lists of Cemeteries
• Wikipedia Norra burial ground is one of Sweden's largest burial sites

Additional Resources at the Family History Library

To find cemetery records for Sweden in the FamilySearch Catalog follow these steps:

1. Go to the FamilySearch Catalog
2. Enter: Sweden in the Place box
3. Click on: Search
4. Click on: Cemeteries

To search for cemeteries at the town level, follow directions below.

1. Go to the FamilySearch Catalog
2. Enter: Sweden in the Place box
3. Click on: Search
4. Click on: Cemeteries
5. Click on: Places within Sweden
6. Click on the town you want to search
7. Click on: Cemeteries

Additional Resources

• Worldcat.org- Do a search for Sweden Cemetery.

“Current” indicates records are available as recently as privacy laws allow. This date can change from year to year. To determine the exact dates available, contact the respective organization/repository.