Tips for searching household examination records
Hi,
I’m just looking for some help as I research an ancestor in the Swedish Household Examination records.
Her name is Ingar Knustdotter. Born 02 August 1827 in Pålstorp, Raus, Malmöhus, Sweden. Her parents (Knut Pettersson and Kierstina Bengtsdotter) are listed on her birth record. I’m hoping to find more information about their dates and places of birth through examination records.
I’ve searched for her and her parents in the “Sweden, Household Examination Books, 1880-1930” on Family Search (https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2790465). I can find records for Ingar after she was married, but none from before. I haven’t been able to find examination records listing her parents.
Any suggestions for what I might try next? I’m not sure exactly what questions to ask, so I’d welcome any help to get me going the right direction!
Thank you!!!
Kasey
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Here the family is: https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/C0068466_00097
In Riksarkivet you can search the records: https://sok.riksarkivet.se/kyrkoarkiv
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The reference by Heidi above looks like it matches your data. The parents and all three children were born in Raus parish. It looks like Ingar was born on 3 August in this record. This is a contemporaneous (sorry for the IRS term) record for her birth since the H-E record covers 1827 to 1831 so it should give you confidence. Note the mother went by Kjersti to the priest which is just another variation of the same name. (I have a daughter named Kjerstin and she is called Kjersti by some of her friends... say it CHER-stee... close enough... gentle on the ch sound but not all the way to sh)
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To follow the family in the next few years, go to the next 5 year segment in the HFL (household examination) in Raus parish. At the front of that document, there should be an index to farm names, Pålstorp should be near the end of the "P"s (the second letter is å which comes after z alphabetically. I generally just search around the same page number until I find No. 5 Pålstorp. This works if there have not been any big changes in the parish from 1831 to 1832. There should be a Pålstorp 1 thru 4 ahead of it.
Generally I prefer to start with birth record if I have the date. Then I go to HFL to see what else there is to learn about the family. (Some birth records give the page number in the HFL.) All of this can be very helpful. By the time the kids are upper teens they may start moving out, sometimes just temporarily. They will get crossed out and then added again below when the return home. The interplay of birth and HFL records is very helpful.
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