Swedish Genealogy Links 
=Best Bets
- Research
Helps at FamilySearch
- Sweden Research Wiki
- PDF file of 'classic' Sweden Research Outline (via BYU) -- may be somewhat out-of-date but generally helpful for beginning Swedish research anyway
- Swedish Word List
- Swedish genealogy videos
- Finding your Swedish roots
- Sources for getting Swedish records
- ArkivDigital
scanned parish records (free at Family History Centers)
- see a summary of what they have available for parishes by clicking here, selecting a county, then selecting a parish, etc.
- Video on "Use the Full Scope of Arkiv Digital for Swedish Genealogy" (intermediate - advanced) this most useful if you are already familiar with research using Swedish parish records
- SVAR (Swedish
Archive) microfiche - click
English along top via "Other languages"
- Ancestry.com's Swedish records (not free unless
you access at a FHC or other library with a subsciption)
- Swedish parish vitals index at FamilySearch (not complete)
- LDS Family History Library Catalog
- Transcribed Swedish records (searchable!)
- Search Släktdata transcribed records (not complete)
- See what parishes transcribed at Släktdata (not complete)
- Sites with Swedish links
- Rootsweb's Swedish gate
- Sweden section of Cyndi's List
- Swedish Genealogical Society of Minnesota's Researching Sweden and Swedish America links
- Locations in
- Maps
·
Search for the location at Eniro (next to
"Sök") or zoom & recenter
· Zoom and recenter Lantmäteriet maps
- Zoomable map of parishes from Släktdata
- Printable map of
parishes within counties (län) --
select län and you will see a map and key
with parish names -- this can help considerably in determining if place
names in records are parishes or farms/villages
- 1992 Atlas of Regional
Divisions of Sweden (includes parish maps)
- Parish list from FamilySearch Wiki
- Quick background on Swedish parishes from FamilySearch Wiki
- Places to post queries about your Swedish research
- Rootsweb's Swedish mailing list
- Rootsweb's Swedish boards
- Genforum's Swedish board
- Rötters Anbytarforum (Swedish forum) -- select English near top right
- Family
trees of other researchers interested in Swedish ancestors
- DISBYT (largely Swedish contributors: initially search with username=guest, password=guest)
- Worldconnect
- Search Familysearch.org
- Swedish
language
- LDS Swedish word list
- Swedish Demographic Database word
list then click on Glossary in left panel -- this link is broken -- searching
for replacement
- Translate one word at a time with Swedish-English dictionary (The People's Dictionary) -- you can type in the start of a word (in Swedish or English) and it will suggest possibilities
- Google Translate will translate text or webpages to/from Swedish - click opposing arrows to switch directions
- 1788 Swedish to English Dictionary
- Site that will pronounce Swedish words (in Swedish)
- Typing Swedish special characters:
With Num Lock on, hold the Alt key down while using the small keypad for the numbers
To create Ä -- use Alt 142
To create ä -- use Alt 132
To create Å -- use Alt 143
To create å -- use Alt 134
To create Ö -- use Alt 153
To create ö -- use Alt 148
o To type other characters that might appear from other languages see the Augustana College page for typing Swedish vowels
Minnesota
area regional resources:
o Swedish Genealogy Society of Minnesota
This page was last modified: 05/03/2017
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