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and 1880 censuses. The 1890 Census index provides
the person’s parish of birth.
There is a free demo of the 1890 census search for
the County of Västernorrland and Sollefteå parish. A
search for Bockman found an Anders Bäckman.
ANNO 1890. The Swedish Census 1890
http://www.foark.umu.se/census/y/index.htm—
Free site—Index only
PDF and OCR files and organized in alphabetical
order by family name which reference the
church book volume and page number where
you can find the original record entry.
The information contained in these registers
will assist you to locate the entries for people in
Genline’s Swedish Church Records archive.“
A guide for using the Stockholm City Archives can
be downloaded from Genline at http://www.genline.
com/downloads/Stockholm City Archives.doc.
The Roteman Archives contains population records.
“The Roteman Institution was established under
a government ordinance from November 10, 1876,
as well as a decision of the Stockholm City Council
from June 1, 1877. On January 1, 1878, Stockholm was
divided into 16 wards, called rotar, with about 8,000
to 10,000 inhabitants each. Every rote was assigned
one roteman who administered the work of the Roteman
office. This roteman population registration system
was in operation for nearly 50 years (1878–1926).
By 1926, when the system was abolished, the number
of wards had increased to 36 due to the population
increases and to the incorporation of two suburban
parishes into the city.”
The 1890 Census for the counties of Norrbotten,
Västerbotten, Västernorrland, Jämtland, and Värmland
can be searched at this site. This data displayed
is similar to the SVAR.
“For the 1890 Census the population was registered
in their home parishes with name, year of birth,
parish of birth, gender, occupation, and marital status.
In 1994 ARKION (a division under the National
Archives of Sweden) started a project of digitizing
the Swedish Census of 1890. The five counties from
the Census 1890—about 800.000 persons, have been
made accessible on the Internet by the Research Archives
at Umeå University.
It is possible to search for persons or groups of
persons by the following variables: home parish,
residence, first name, last name, year of birth, parish
of birth, occupation, marital status, and gender.” An
exact search for Backman did not find the Bäckman
entry however a partial search for “ckman” did.
Stockholm City Archive
http://www.ssa.stockholm.se—Free site
http://www.ssa.stockholm.se/en/—English
“If you do not have the date and year of birth
for an ancestor in one of the parishes in Stockholm
then use the free registers at Stockholm
City Archives. These registers are available as
Search the Roteman Archives:
http://www3.ssa.stockholm.se/Rotemansarkivet/
Search.aspx
There is an English option available.
Search results for Anderson
Stockholm population registers 1800-1881—Fee
based
“This is a population register for the timeperiod
1800 to 1881. Stockholm City Archives
currently transfers the printed or handwritten
registers into digital form.
The digital registers contain the following
information:
• Year of record
• Last name
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