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Guide to Stockholm City ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.

How to Do Research in Stockholm City, Sweden
Most of your genealogical research for Stockholm will be in online church records.  Methods for locating and reading them are given here.

Knowing Your Locality
To search effectively, it will help if you know the farm, parish, and county where your ancestor lived. The Wiki articles Gather Family Information, Tracing Immigrant Origins, and Finding a Place of Origin in Sweden describe many strategies you can use to find this. Sweden 1951 Place Names Register and the Swedish Parish Pages list in this Wiki will give you searchable lists of places, particularly parishes and the farms within those parishes.

Featured Content
For many years there have been a number of indexes to certain parish registers in Stockholm city. These registers have been in book form, found within the reading room of the city archive. The indexes are organized alphabetically by surname. Each index has been scanned into a PDF format for online access. Read More...

Swedish Lutheran Congregations Created Before 1900
For parishes with an asterisk (*), see Stockholm County.

Swedish Lutheran Congregations Created After 1900
For parishes with an asterisk (*), see Stockholm County.

Church Records

 * 1546-1927 - at FamilySearch — index

Did you know?
The Eric's Chronicle claims that Birger Jarl (around the 1250's) founded Stockholm. Its foundation and growth are linked to the German trade expansion in the Baltic region. Trade houses in Lübeck opened branches in Stockholm during the 13th Century. In the 1280’s, a city government with a mayor and councilors was set up in Stockholm, following a German model.

Research Tools

 * City Archives Collection Database
 * Child and Youth Homes in Stockholm
 * FamilySearch Digital Images for Stockholm City and County
 * Find a Grave in Stockholm, Sweeden
 * Indexed Church Records
 * Indexed Tax Records (Mantalsböcker)
 * Magistrate and City Court Records Database (Tidigmoderna Konkurser)
 * Maps and Drawings
 * Orphanages
 * Parishes Pages for Stockholm City
 * Probate Indexes are available using the search words "Digitaliserade register" in SVAR
 * Roteman Database 1878 - 1926
 * Stockholm Population Registers 1800 - 1881
 * Stockholmskällan
 * Type the Letters Å, Ä, and Ö