Sweden Church Records Types and Classification

For information about records for non-Christian religions in Sweden, go to the Religious Records page.

We use birth, marriage, death, moving-in and -out, and household examination records the most for Swedish genealogy. These are the main record types, but they do not represent the entire parish record collection. Each parish kept additional records that may also be useful to your search. Further, there may be situations where you might need to search the Diocese record collections (especially regarding parish council decisions, permissions to marry or divorce, or even Bishop visitation records.)

This table shows the wide variety of record types that can be found in the parish record collections. It includes the cataloging codes that were assigned by the Swedish National Archives (Riksarkivet).