Habo Parish, Skaraborg, Sweden Genealogy

[Genealogical Society of Habo] http://www.hsfhabo.se/District_20eng.htm Has some helpful info, excerpts: Habo "was earlier a part of the county of Skaraborg, but since January 1998 it belongs to the county of Jönköping."

"The municipality consists of several small-sized villages besides the regional centre Habo; Furusjö, Fagerhult, Baskarp, Gustav Adolf and Brandstorp."

"The district belonged to the countship of Visingsborg from 1567 to about 1690, and after that it became a part of Vartofta härad."

"The parishes of Habo, Gustav Adolf and Brandstorp belong to Skara diocese since several hundred years. Under the main part of the 18th- and 19th-century Habo was the motherparish."

"The name Hagabodhom (Habo) was to be found as early as in the 14th-century, and it means something like "meadows with sheds which are fenced".