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Fast
search among parishes, municipalities, provinces and counties
Parish-Search is an
aid for you who quickly want to know:
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Where a parish is situated, municipality
(kommun), province (landskap) and county (län)
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What parishes are situated in a certain
municipality
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What parishes or municipalities there
are within a certain county
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What parishes or municipalities there
are within a certain province
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Where the original church records from a
parish are stored
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LA =
Regional Archive (Landsarkiv)
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What SCB-code a certain parish has
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What parish matches a certain SCB-code
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SCB = Statistics Sweden (Statistiska
centralbyrån )
How to search
Write the name of the parish, municipality, county, province or the SCB-code
in the box. Distinguish between upper and lower case letters! Then
click on the Search button.
Your reply will appear in Swedish only!
If you need these peculiar
letters just copy and paste them
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Report any mistakes or uncertainties to our office.
Background
Since a few years back there is quite an intense debate on how geneaologists
best describe where a parish is situated. Some have suggested the counties
(and county letters), others the old provinces. The drastic changes that has
taken place the last few years (especially with the creation of Västra
Götalands län) has made more people plead for the stable and in the general
knowledge well-known provinces. Parish-Search is a good aid for every one who
wants to use the provinces, since the province belonging of different
parishes hardly ever are stated in other similar lists.
Parish-Search
consists of presently existing parishes and the ones that has ceased to be
during the period of church registers, since the middle of the 17th century.
Of the ones that are no longer existing the following have not been
included: Church register districts that have changed over to now fully
existing parishes or non territorial parishes such as military parishes or
foreign congregations. Parishes with names that very clearly show their
geographical origin might have been left out, such as certain countryside
parishes. The crosses show what year they ceased to exist.
For more
detailed information about the different parishes, see the list from The
Swedish Tax Agency (Skatteverket) from 2006
here.
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