The Swedish National Archives collect and preserve records from government, public bodies, organisations and individuals from the Middle Ages onwards. There are archives for the original documents in several locations in Sweden.
The Swedish National Archives have as their mission to preserve this cultural heritage and make it available. The SVAR Digital Research Room is a prime example of this. The main content is digitized records and searchable databases. In some cases (but far from always) search results are linked to the digitized images. Access to SVAR has formerly been by subscription. From February 1st 2018 it is free of charge.
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- Visit: the SVAR Digital Research Room - you will have to choose English from Other Languages in the upper right corner
There is more at SVAR, but the featured links are:
- Digitized collections:
- Church archives - primary sources, indexed by parish and type, no further
- Court archives mostly estate inventories
- Property records 1933-1980s
- Register of population 1642–1820 a.k.a. taxation records (not for the fainthearted)
- SCB births, marriages, deaths 1860–1947 secondary sources, indexed by parish and type
- Databases
- Census incomplete for 1860 and 1870, complete for 1880, 1890, 1900 and 1910 (extremely useful). Incomplete for 1930.
- Inventory of estates for parts of the country
- Released prisoners Black sheep of Sweden
- Rosenberg's geographical dictionary In Swedish, of course
Where the originals are found
Although the digitized records are a treasure trove to last a lifetime, you may be interested to know that there is even more in storage.
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