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National Archives

The Oxenstierna Project
The Works and Correspondence of Axel Oxenstierna, Chancellor of Sweden 1612-1654.

Regional Archives in Lund
Records from local and regional government authorities in Skåne, Halland and Blekinge.

The Swedish Emigrant Institute
The national collection and museum on Swedish emigration history.

Nordiska museets arkiv
The national museum of cultural history, archives.

 

Disbyt
Disbyt contains more than 4 million records of Swedes who lived before 1911.

The Swedish Census 1890
Historical database over the Swedish population 1890 in the following Swedish Counties: Norrbotten, Västerbotten, Västernorrland, Jämtland and Värmland.

Demographic Data Base (Umeå in northern Sweden)
Demographicl Data Base (Indiko-parish registers on the net) in Umeå is based on churchbooks (18th and 19th century) from some of the northern parishes in Sweden. This webpage is only in swedish and requires payement.

Genline
"Swedish Church Records OnLine” offers you the opportunity of searching for ancestors in the convenience of your own home. More than 2.000.000 pages of Church Records are available at this very moment from the parishes of Kalmar län.

Digital Historical Maps
A projekt between Lantmäteriet in Sweden, the University in Greifsvald in Germany, Riksantikvarieämbetet in Sweden and the Kort - och Matrikkelstyrelsen in Denmark. The projektet have made historical maps avaliable on the web.

DIS
Computer Genealogy Society of Sweden

Föreningen Släktdata
Släktdata's main ambition is to help people and groups to publish parish files for all to share without fees.

Swedish parishes in the past
The Riksskatteverkets web site has information concerning Swedish parishes.

Rötter
E-zine published by the Federation of Swedish Genealogical Societies

Sweden's Shipping Office Museum
The Museum has a comprehensive research department, with an archive over shipping and ship's history, and muster lists over seamen from the 1820s to 1960s.