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Apologies if you already know but the main thing to understand about Swedish research is that you have to know the place from which your ancestor came. Ideally the village or farm, at the least the parish. If not, it's needle and haystack time.
Recently a lot of effort has gone into transcribing the registers and creating nominal indexes. But the original organisation of the registers was by location, not name, and that's what you have to remember when you're using them to trace someone.
The other thing to know about Swedish research is that it ain't cheap. To view the records you have a choice of either
SVAR or
ArkivDigital, both of which are subscription sites.
You'll commonly find ArkivDigital referred to as just AD.
A third choice is ancestry.com to which your local library may already subscribe. Unfortunately the image quality is pretty poor compared to SVAR and AD. And from memory there isn't a lot of indexing. But if your library has an ancestry.com subscription then it's free to use so you may as well make the most of it.
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Here are a few Swedish genealogical websites worth looking at...
You might want to check DISBYT to see if someone has already researched your family. The username and password are both
guest. To search any further with DISBYT you need to subscribe.
DISBYThttp://disbyt.dis.se/searchindex.htm--
Släktdata (Family Data) is a volunteer-based website which has a lot of transcribed registers... and now might be a good time to start using that Swedish genealogical word list I mentioned earlier...
Släktdatahttp://www.slaktdata.org/index.php/regsearch--
Some of the 1890 Swedish census has been transcribed and indexed. If your ancestor lived in one of the transcribed counties at the time then you're in luck
The Swedish Census 1890http://www2.foark.umu.se/census/Index.htm--
The best website for an english speaker to get Swedish genealogy help is the Sweden/General board on ancestry.com. Lots of knowledgeable bilingual people with access to a lot of off-line records (books, CD's etc). As it's a very active board you'll usually get a response to your question within a day or so.
It's free to read the threads but to ask for help you need to register with ancestry.com. Registration is free.
Sweden/Generalhttp://www.rootschat.com/links/012l0/A handy thing to ask for on the Sweden/General board is for a look-up in either
"Svenskarna i Nya Zeeland - The Swedes in New Zealand" or
"Emibas - The Swedish Emigration Database".
"Svenskarna i Nya Zeeland" is a reference book compiled back in the 1970's and 80's by the Swedish ambassador to NZ. It contains family and travel details for lots of the Swedes who turned up in NZ.
"Emibas" is a CD containing lots of transcribed passenger lists. I don't think it's accessible on-line. I may be wrong.
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Happy to help further if you've managed to read this far :-)
Regards
Beg
