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There are a number of ways to determine to which härad (district) a parish belonged. Here are some of the ways:

• The Family Search Wiki Parish List. See Parish List
• The Family History Library Catalog at www.familysearch.org (Do a place search for name of your parish. Get the Church Records for that parish. In the notes for the parish will be the härad (judicial district).
• Lista över svenska härader (List of Swedish districts) See http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_%C3%B6ver_svenska_h%C3%A4rader
• A Swedish gazetteer like Rosenberg's Statistiskt-Geografiskt Handlexikon. See Geografiskt-Statistiskt Handlexikon Öfver Sverige

For more information about the districts in Sweden see Districts