Sweden Genealogy

Welcome to the Sweden page of the FamilySearch Wiki. FamilySearch Wiki is a community website dedicated to helping people throughout the world learn how to find their ancestors. Through the Sweden page you can learn how to find, use, and analyze Swedish records of genealogical value. The content is variously targeted to beginners, intermediate, and expert researchers. Please visit the help page to learn more about using the site. The Sweden Page is a work in progress, your contributions and feedback are essential!

Getting started with Sweden research

 * Getting Started
 * What's the next step?
 * Finding your ancestor in the records
 * Tips for Beginners
 * Tips for Swedish American Researchers

See the tutorials at FamilySearch Learning Center on Scandinavian Research and on Reading Scandinavian Gothic Handwritten Records.

Featured Content
As you do your Swedish family history research, sometimes you will see a letter associated to a county. In Sweden these letters are called Länsbokstav which is literally translated as “county letter”. The system of assigning a unique letter (or letters) to every county began with automobile registration in 1916 and continued up until 1973. Read more at: Swedish County Letters See previous featured articles at: Sweden: Previous Featured Articles

Jurisdictions and Records
Civil Jurisdictions          Judicial Jurisdictions         Military Jurisdictions      Church Jurisdictions

Civil Records                     Judicial Records               Army / Naval Records          Church Records

To County and Parish Pages
Counties                                                      Provinces

To learn more about other jurisdictions in Sweden see Sweden: Jurisdictions

Sweden FamilySearch Wikiprojects
Are you interested to improve the content for Sweden in the FamilySearch Wiki? You can help by doing work individually or by participating on a WikiProject with the Swedish User Group. Check the WikiProject Sweden page to see if there is a project you are interested in.

Here's a quick reference to general Wiki activities:

Related Country Pages
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