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A Swedish Treasure-Trove--SVAR Elisabeth Thorsell Swedish American Genealogist Volume 26 | Number 4 Article 10 12-1-2006 A Swedish Treasure-Trove--SVAR Elisabeth Thorsell Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/swensonsag Part of the Genealogy Commons, and the Scandinavian Studies Commons Recommended Citation Thorsell, Elisabeth (2006) "A Swedish Treasure-Trove--SVAR," Swedish American Genealogist: Vol. 26 : No. 4 , Article 10. Available at: https://digitalcommons.augustana.edu/swensonsag/vol26/iss4/10 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center at Augustana Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Swedish American Genealogist by an authorized editor of Augustana Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. A Swedish Treasure-Trove Some things you might find on the SVAR web site (www.svar.ra.se) BY ELISABETH THORSELL For the last few years there has been Provincial Archives (Landsarkivet) in through various kinds of documents a full page ad in each SAG from the Härnösand started a registry base in and indexed them for the Landsarki- SVAR institution, but who are they Ramsele, way up in the forests of vet; this was even before the age of and why are they of interest to Ångermanland, where there were personal computers. Later the work- genealogists? many unemployed individuals, main- place was transferred to Riksarkivet It is a long story, and has to do ly women who had difficulties in find- (National Archives) and put in with the Swedish labor market and ing proper jobs there. The men could charge of microfilming the Swedish the efforts to keep the countryside at that time still find plenty of work church records after 1860 and pro- alive. Already in the early 1980s the in the forests. So the women went ducing microfiche of all of them. They The first page of the SVAR web site. There is a little flag at the top on the right-hand side where you can change language. 18 Swedish American Genealogist 2006:4 also have produced microfiche of are a result of SVAR scanning all the want. Remember that the bounda- military records, court records, old younger records, up to 1991, when ries of Sweden changed in the 1600s, manuscripts, and much more. They the church records stopped. so for Halland, for instance, you will have a very nice research room in The parishes in the districts of the not find these records before 1669. Ramsele which is free to use by all Landsarkiv in Härnösand and Upp- See an example of mantalslängder on visitors. sala were filmed before they changed page 14. With the advent of the internet, to scanning directly. Those northern SVAR also went online and has now records are on microfiche and can be The shortcut to grown a very interesting web site, bought from SVAR. The change of full of useful things for all research- technology happened when half of databases ers, not just genealogists. the church records for the district of This useful window is found on the The SVAR web site is mainly in Vadstena (Östergötland, Småland, starting page and has links to many Swedish, but has a large English and Öland) had been filmed, the interesting databases. A short de- language section also. Most of the other half was scanned. scription of these follows here. contents are only accessible if you A red arrow shows what is on have a subscription. microfiche, and for some parishes you Birth, marriage, and can buy those up to the middle 1920s, death databases or even later. Church records Some modern databases of Births, On the start page you will find the Marriages, and Deaths (födelse, vig- link to the English site in the upper The Tax census sel, and död) are to be found here. right-hand corner, and that is also (Mantalslängder) These databases do not cover the where you can log in. From the early 1620s every adult whole country, but only some parish- After logging in, you will notice a person, with some exceptions, had to es in Ångermanland, Medelpad, window in the middle of the screen pay a yearly tax, called mantalspeng. Småland, and a few ones in Öster- which says “Shortcuts – Scanned To make sure that nobody evaded the götland and Västergötland are in- documents”; click on that and chose tax, the officials kept yearly registers cluded. On the search page of the church records. Now you first get a of all people in the country, called database there is a link to informa- list of the counties and you have to mantalslängder, and they have tion on how to do the search and click on the county name, and then mostly survived through the cen- about the contents. If you are lucky on the parish which interests you. turies. it can be a convenient shortcut to If you see a blue arrow, there are They are not as detailed as the looking up the original records. scanned records available. husförhörslängder, but can be helpful Note: scanned documents are in the times before those were kept. Census database saved in the DjVu-format, which They are kept by county and The Census database (Sveriges be- means you need a plugin to view the parish. People are listed by the farm images. You will find a link to the folkning) consists of a modern data- they owned or leased, and people base, compiled from excerpts of plugin on the start page, and the with patronymic names often were parish page. You will not find church clerical surveys that the pastors had just listed with their first name. The to send in to the Central Bureau of records that are younger than 100 wife and children were recorded as years, as those are only available at Statistics (Statistiska Centralbyrån/ marks in columns, as well as farm SCB) every 10 year. Here you find the archives. hands and maids. Children under the At the time of writing, scanned complete databases for 1890 and age of 15 and people older than 65 1900, and several counties completed records for the whole period from the were usually exempted, as well as 1600s up to 1895 are available for the for 1880, and more to come. Databas- soldiers, but not the soldier’s family. es for 1860 and 1870 have been counties of Örebro and Uppsala. This An example of a mantalslängd is is a result of the cooperation between started, but will take a long time to the handwriting example in this complete. It should be noted that the Genealogical Society of Utah and issue. the Riksarkivet, where the goal is to both 1890 and 1900 are also avail- You will find the mantalslängder able on CD:s. scan the first generation films made 1642-1820 by going to “Scanned in the 1950s to get clearer and documents” on the start page and Convicts sharper pictures than what is cur- then clicking on ”Tax Census.” Then rently available on microfiche. This chose the county you like and the This database contains records, with scanning is very fast and will pro- year, and click on the volume. When many photos, on 8,000 convicts from bably be completed within a year or the pages appear you will find a very 1877 to 1925, searchable in many two. helpful list of parishes on the right- ways. If you find a relative here you Another set of films are scanned hand side, which you can click on and will have all the information neces- records for the time 1895-1905 which it will take you to the parish you sary to find him in the court records. Swedish American Genealogist 2006:4 19 saved 85 kronor and 60 öre. His hair was dark brown, his beard speckled grey, his nose crooked, his mouth ordinary, his skin a bit dark, he was 5 feet 5.2 inches tall, his body was of ordinary build, and as an unusual mark his fourth finger on the left hand was unusable. And then his picture adds a lot to the information. It is not many of you ancestors, born in the 1820s, that you know this much about. In the 1890 Swedish census he is listed under Hedemora, but with a note that nobody knew where he was. In 1900 he is no longer listed any- where. Image database This section has a few images of birth, marriage, and death (födelse, vigsel, and död) records for Jämt- land, as well as extracts from the clerical surveys 1860 for Väster- norrland, and 1870 for Norrbotten and Västerbotten, and the whole country for 1880, 14 counties for 1890, and again the whole country for 1900. An interesting database under this heading is the one from Krigs- arkivet (War Archive) which has photos of officers both from the army and the navy. An example of the information on a convict. The man in the example is the for- time for stealing and fraud. He was mer carpenter Lars Johan Söder- sentenced by the Västerås Magist- man, who was released on th 4th of rate on 30 November 1875. He was April 1882 from the penitentiary at sentenced to 6 years and 7 months Karlskrona. His roll number was 80 of hard labor and 10 years loss of his and his number in the portrait roll civil rights. He started his time in jail was 152. on the 4th of December 1875. He had He was born 23 October 1827 in previously been punished for 4th Hedemora, which also is the place time for stealing.
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