What is the Swedish Church Records archive?
Genline’s Swedish Church Records archive consists of photographic quality images scanned from microfilm of the original church records. These microfilms are direct copies of the masters kept at the Swedish National Archives in Stockholm. What Swedish Church Records are included in our archive? Our church records archive includes records from the 16th-20th century. These records consist of birth/baptismal, confirmation, marriage, death/burial, church ledgers and household examination rolls. These are the main sources of genealogical information in Sweden. In some cases we will be complementing these church records with those kept by a government agency known as Statistics Sweden (abbreviated as SCB). SOURCE Swedish Church Records By Elisabeth Thorsell Professional genealogist, lecturer and writer Sweden, a country in northern Europe, has not had any civil registration of Vital Statistics until 1991. Why? Did Swedes and Finns (until 1809) not have to register Births, Marriages and Deaths
