Sweden Genealogy

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Guide to Sweden ancestry, family history, and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, and military records.

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
Orphanages in Sweden New content has been created to better understand how the orphanages in Sweden came about, and how they changed through the years. The articles will also introduce you to the records they left behind. See more at: Orphanages in Sweden

See previous featured articles at: Sweden: Previous Featured Articles

Getting started with Sweden research [[Image:Riksdagen June 2011.jpg|thumb|left|300x250px]]
See the tutorials at FamilySearch Learning Center on Scandinavian Research and on Reading Scandinavian Gothic Handwritten 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

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: