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 advanced 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!

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. Read more at: Swedish County Letters See previous featured articles at: Sweden: Previous Featured Articles

Getting started with Sweden research
See the tutorials at FamilySearch Learning Center on Scandinavian Research and on Reading Scandinavian Gothic Handwritten Records.

Research Tools
Wiki articles describing online collections are found at:


 * Sweden Burials (FamilySearch Historical Records)

Jurisdictions and Records
Civil Juris.           Judicial Juris.           Military Juris.      Church Juris.

Civil Rec.             Judicial Rec.       Army / Naval Rec. Church Rec.

County and Parish Pages
Click on the map to navigate to county, province, or 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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