How does one follow an individual in records after 1947? I have tracked the individual in household

NelsonGenevieve

How does one follow an individual in records after 1947? I have tracked the individual in household examination records until their availability seems to end in 1947. I read about personakt files on the FamilySearch Sweden Personakt wiki page.

Are these files available online or do you have to write to parish offices for them?

Tanner Blair Tolman

In addition to their 1860-1947 household examination database, ArkivDigital has also created Swedish "censuses" for 1940, 1950, 1960, 1975, and 1985. You can search those database on their website. https://app.arkivdigital.se

 

Additionally, the Swedish Death Index is a CD database that has all 99.99% of all Swedish deaths from 1860 to 2017.

 

Between those two databases, you should be able to trace any line down until the present day, unless they died within the past three years.

Heidi Kuosmanen

Tanner, where you can get that Swedish Death Index, a CD database?

NelsonGenevieve

Thank you very much for such helpful information! I will look at the "censuses." I have ordered the Swedish Death Index and look forward to using it. Since these are both secondary sources, would the correct methodology be to use them to find the information and then write to the parishes for the original primary records?

NelsonGenevieve

The Swedish Death Index can be purchased here: https://www.rotterbokhandeln.se/

It is called Sveriges Dödbok. It costs approximately $75 USD. I tried finding it elsewhere, but was unsuccessful.

Heidi Kuosmanen

Thank you!