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• First name
• Title in Swedish
• Additional information included in the registers
• Parish or district
Important note: These digital registers only
indicate the presence of a record. The records
themselves are currently only digitally available
for four years (1835, 1845, 1860 and 1870). The
rest is not yet available in a digital format. They
can only be accessed directly at the Stockholm
City Archives or as ordered copies (as paper or
digital copies created after a request).”
Ancestry.com
www.ancestry.com —Subscription site
A current list of their records for Sweden can be
found at: http://www.ancestry.com/search/locality/
dbpage.aspxtp=1652381&p=5216.
Värmland, Sweden, Parish Records,
1661-1895 (in Swedish)—Free Index
http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspxdbid=1194
“Original data: Värmland, Sweden, Parish
Records, 1661-1895. Microfilm. Emigrantregistret/Kinship
Center, Karlstad, Sweden.
About Värmland, Sweden, Parish Records,
1661-1895
This database contains Lutheran parish records
from some 81 parishes in the county of
Värmland in Sweden. The overall collection
covers the years 1661-1895 and includes records
such as births/christenings, marriages, deaths/
burials, communions, household examinations,
and moving records.
This database contains Lutheran parish records
from some 81 parishes in the county of
Värmland in Sweden. A list of the parishes
included in this database can be seen in the
browse table below. The overall collection covers
Värmland, Sweden, Parish Records,
1661-1895 > Alster > Döde (Deaths) > 1860-1869
the years 1661-1895. However, for each parish the
years covered may vary. While most parishes
began keeping records in 1686, some parishes
started earlier than this time and others started
later. In some cases, parish records have been
either lost or destroyed and so some may not
exist for a given year.”
Swedish Emigration Records, 1783-1951
(in Swedish)
http://www.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx
dbid=1189—Index
While there are no images, this database may provide
the place of origin for an immigrant.
“Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network,
Inc., 2007. Original data: EMIGRANTEN
POPULÄR 2006 is a coproduction between
Emigrantregistret in Karlstad and Göteborgs-
Emigranten in Göteborg.
This collection contains various Swedish
emigration records from 1783-1951. Specifically
it includes the following five databases:
1. EmiHamn: Passengers traveling to North
America (with a few to Argentina, Australia,
Brazil, Denmark, Finland, Germany, New Zealand,
Norway, and Russia) from:
• Göteborg, 1869-1951 (1,135,888 records)
• Hamburg, 1850-1891 (21,708 records)
• Helsingborg, 1929-1950 (413 records)
• Kalmar, 1881-1893 (3,338 records)
• Köpenhamn, 1868-1898 (56,127 records)
• Malmö, 1874-1928 (165,876 records)
• Norrköping, 1859-1922 (8,545 records)
• Stockholm, 1869-1940 (34,887 records)
2. EmiLarsson: Written letters to the agents
Larsson Brothers & Co, 1879-1911 (consisting
of 50,000 letters from the emigrants and about
12,000 answers from the Larsson Brothers). The
original letters are bound into 109 volumes. The
Larsson Brothers archive in Göteborg is the only
emigrant agent archive in the world. The reference
code for each record gives reference to
the actual letter held at the county archive in
Göteborg.
3. EmiPass: Passport holders from 1783 to
1860, compiled from original records kept at the
county archive in Göteborg (16,012 records)
4. EmiSal: Passengers from the Swedish
America Line, 1915-1950 both to and from
America (242,000 records)
5. EmiSjo: Sailors who were listed in the
sailor houses in Göteborg, Lysekil, Marstrand
Strömstad, and Uddevalla and who are recorded
as discharges, escapees, or dead outside
of Europe, 1812-1930 (16,996 records).
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