Swedish Roots

Useful Links

Swedish Archives | Research Institutions in Sweden | Online Databases

Swedish History Sites | Geographical Help Sites | Swedish Language

Sw-Am Gen. Societies | Sw. Historical Resources in the US

In Canada | Bulletin Boards | Swedish American Newspapers

Ancestors of Famous Swedes
| Other Useful Links

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Swedish archives

Riksarkivet och landsarkiven: Swedish National Archives and its branches, the Provincial archives

Svensk Arkivinformation: SVAR
- Find information about original records in public archives.
- Subscriptions for access to databases with scanned images and indexes.
- Buy records on microfiche.

Stockholms Stadsarkiv: Stockholm City Archives

Lantmäteriverket: National Land Survey
Search for digital or printed historical maps from Lantmäteriets digital archive, with maps from the 17th-20th century. Free viewing all through the selection process.

The office of Custodian of National Antiquities: Images of the Swedish National Heritage Board

Demographic Data Base: About Parish Registers

Other Research Institutions in Sweden

Swedish Emigrant Institute, Växjö

The Swedish American Center, Karlstad

Emigrants from Jämtland Ragunda Emigrant Center

Migranternas Hus,
Alfta, Gästrikland


Släktforskarnas Hus House of Genealogy, Leksand

Swedish Databases On-line

Parish search Here you can search for a parish and find out where it is. Instructions in English

Emiweb Web based archive of its kind covering migration to and from Scandinavia. [subscription database]

The Swedish Census 1890 (Norrbotten, Västerbotten, Västernorrland, Jämtland, and Värmland [free search]

Swedish Census 1890, 1900 and much more [subscription database]

Demographical Database for Skåne, Halland och Blekinge in Southern Sweden

Genline Swedish Church Records On-line [subscription database]

The Union Catalog of the Swedish National Library [Kungliga Biblioteket]


Database with excerpts of Birth, Deaths and Marriages in Jönköping County
in Swedish by the Jönköpingsbygdens Genealogiska Förening

The DISBYT database
contains records of Swedes who lived before 1910.
The records have been submitted by members

The Släktdata Society
On-line searchable transcriptions of birth, marriages and death records in Swedish

The Central Soldier Register. Facts about the soldiers from the General Muster Rolls and the church records.

Swedish History Sites

Gotland Families, a database built by Olle Överby Swedish History Sites

Swedish Military History by Hans Högman

The Swedish Central Soldier's Register

Swedish Geography and Maps

The Swedish National Gazetteer will help to find the place in Sweden.

Swedish Administrative Units by Christer Hamré

The 92 mediaeval churches at Gotland

The Swedish language

A Swedish-English Dictionary for Genealogists from Släktdata

Swedish American Genealogical Societies

Swedish Ancestry Research Association (SARA), Worcester, MA

Swedish Genealogy Society of Minnesota

The Swedish American Historical Society


Swedish Roots in Oregon

The Colonial Swedes
in New Sweden

The Kalmar Nyckel web site

The Swedish Finn Historical Society

Other Swedish Historical Resources in the US

The Swenson Swedish Immigrant Research Center at Augustana College, Rock Island, IL

The Swedish American Museum Center, Chicago

The American Swedish Museum,
Philadelphia

The American Swedish Institute,
Minneapolis

Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle

The Swedish Connection in Kansas

The American Family Immigration History Center at Ellis Island

Steve Morse's short cut to the: Ellis Island database and more

Swedish American Heritage Society of West Michigan


Swedish Council of America


About New Sweden, Maine


Lots of information on Bishop Hill, IL

About the community of Kiron, Iowa

Canadian Societies and Projects

The Scandinavian Society of Nova Scotia

The Canadian Nordic Society

Bulletin Boards

Anbytarforum The Swedish board which welcomes queries in English

Sweden Genealogy Forum

Rootsweb, Another Swedes Bulletin Board

Swedish American Newspapers

Nordstjernan - The Swedish Newspaper in America

Ancestors of Famous Swedes

Author Astrid Lindgrens's ancestors from Småland

Inventor John Ericsson's ancestors from Värmland.

Other useful sites

There are several very good research helps on the web site of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (The Mormons). Go to the tab marked "Search" and look for "Research Helps" and then look for "S" as in "Sweden" and scroll down the page. There are a number of downloadable pdf-files there.

Swedish American Genealogist, the only journal totally devoted to the Swedish American Emigration, starting in the 1600s and continuing to modern times.

Interesting info on ports of call and shipping lines

Jewish Research in Scandinavia

Web site of the Swedish Institute

Sweden Bookshop offers an impressive selection of translated Swedish literature and books about Sweden.

General Swedish Info: Smörgåsbordet

The Royal Family also have their own web site, which tells about the family and the royal palaces.

The Royal Armoury has an interesting web site

The Warship Vasa
is something every visitor to Stockholm must see!



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Contact information
Stockholm office: Post Sveriges Släktforskarförbund,
Anderstorpsvägen 16, SE-171 54 Solna, Sweden
Visits: Anderstorpsvägen 16, Solna (Subway: Huvudsta - line 10)
Phone +46 8 440 75 50 Fax + 46 8695 08 24

Swedish Roots
is published by Sveriges Släktforskarförbund.
The Federation of Swedish Genealogical Societies