How can I confirm a family unit in Kalmar Sweden from 1692 to 1717?

Andrew Lundgren

I am trying to determine if there is a way to confirm if all of the children born in this set of search results are from the same family:

https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?treeref=GHJQ-5WL&q.birthLikePlace=Algutsrum, Kalmar, Sweden&q.birthLikeDate.from=1650&q.birthLikeDate.to=1727&q.fatherGivenName=Matt*&q.fatherSurname=Anderson&count=20&offset=0&m.defaultFacets=on&m.queryRequireDefault=on&m.facetNestCollectionInCategory=on

 

They all share a similar fathers name: Mattis Andersson.

The births start in Torslunda in 1692 until 1708 and then move over to Algustrum and into a different collection in 1712.

 

There are no mothers names on the records.

 

I've looked the records on riksarkivet.se

I.E: 4th up from the bottom on the left side: https://sok.riksarkivet.se/bildvisning/C0028743_00345. These correspond to the familysearch index for the records, but there isn't really anything more.

 

The household/parish records in Algutsrum don't start until 1767.

The relocation records don't start until much later.

 

I guess one possibility is to search for death records for the children from Torslund in Algutsrum...

 

Is there any way to definitively determine if this is the same family?

 

Thanks for any advice!!

Torhild

Hello, @Andrew Lundgren​ 

I'm afraid you will have to look up each individual record in the church books. Sweden didn't conduct regular census records, instead, the church did a household registration on a regular, often yearly, basis. For Kalmar, these didn't start until 1773 as far as I can tell.

Andrew Lundgren

Thank you. I found some of the same. Another user pointed me toward tax documents. I need to learn how to use those now too.

 

Thanks again!!