Valö Parish, Stockholm, Sweden Genealogy

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History
In 1612 Valö församling broke off from Forsmark parish.

Valö lies in northeast Uppland province (landskap) and now in Uppsala County (län) but before 1971 it was included in Stockholms län. Woodland covers much of the parish but some farming and a little mining have supported the population. Vigelsbo mines operated in the western end of the parish and its raliroad spur from 1925 connected with the much older Dannamora-Harg narrow-guage line. When a small mill in the area closed in the 1920s the railroad was abandond. As of year 2000 the parish population was 622.

Place Names
Annö, Bennebo, Bergsjö, Bohl, Bohl ägor, Boharsbo, Dahltorp, Danbo, Djuprudu, Frebbenbo, Grynmon, Gubbo, Gunnarsbo utjord, Gålalmora, Gålarmora ägor, Hackbol, Jiuoansbo, Jönsbol, Karö, Kelinge, Kelinge ägor, Klintbol, Klockargården, Kämbo, Lund, Lund ägor, Lundssvia, Lundssvia ägor, Lundssvia Finnskog, Masungsskogen, Norrby, Norrtorp, Orrdal, Pehrsbo, Prästgården, Pålsmora, Pålsmora ägor, Rofsätra, Rofsätra ägor, Rundal, Rönningen, Rörberget, Skotttorp, Skällerö, Stenbacken, Stensberg, Strandbergens, Stummelbo, Stummelbo ägor, Sunnanäng, Svalsbohl, Sångarbo, Södersvea, Tomta, Tomta ägor, Ulkerö, Udden, Wamsta, Wamsta ägor, Wigelsbo, Wigelsbo ägor, Östensbo, Örtmora, Örtmora ägor.

To see what kind of place it is you will need a Swedish Gazetteer.


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Kyrkoböcker, 1673-1895 author: Svenska kyrkan. Valö socken

Kyrkoböcker, 1863-1929 author: Svenska kyrkan. Valö socken

The parish records contain christening, marriage, and death records, household examination records, and move in move out. The earliest records, in general, date from 1727 forward. There is no index. They are written in a gothic script which can be difficult to read. Also, they are written in Swedish. With some practice, the information can be obtained without too much knowledge of the language.

There are also church account records that go back much ealier than 1727. These records list items such as, the amount paid by someone to get married. These records contain some information that is useful for discovering families prior to the beginning of formal the parish records. One difficult is that they are not in specific format, so a knowledge of Swedish is imparative to gain full use of these records.

The FamilySearch has microfilms available, but the best place to view the records is in the AkivDigital website. (There is a fee to use this site, but it is available for free at most FamilySearch centers). These are photographed pictures of all the parish records.


 * Court Records

The tax records are easily accessible on SVAR. A Swedish government website that houses these tax records. They are not indexed, and are in Swedish. There is a fee for using this site. These records predate the parish records. They list those who paid taxes by location. There are exceptions as to who had to pay taxes, so some individuals are not listed.

Probate Records These records are now available on ArkivDigital. They date from the mid 1600's. Here again, there is no index available, but they are easily browsed to find the names of relatives within the texts. A knowledge of Swedish is necissary to extract all the information from the wills.

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