Re: A bit more since you thanked so nicely ;-)
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Re: A bit more since you thanked so nicely ;-)
Mary Brocklebank 10/20/08
Hi Mary,
Thank you for your offer. Unfortunately, my computer is old and "touchy", so I don't download anything anymore.
I'm glad that you found that information useful. You should be able to find much more about the previous generations using the fee-based Genline site.
http://www.genline.comhttp://www.genline.com
Births, marriages, and deaths until 1937 can be found on the fee-based SVAR site. It takes a bit of digging since the records are not indexed, but if they stayed in the same parish, you should be able to find many of them.
http://www.svar.ra.sehttp://www.svar.ra.se
To access those later births, marriages, and deaths, you must use the Swedish version of that site. There is no link to those databases on the English version.
1. Use the Swedish version of http://www.svar.ra.sehttp://www.svar.ra.se (but you must be a member and then you have to log in.)
2. Find "Snabblänker skannat mäter" at the top (almost on the right) of the home page.
3. Click on that (#2) and scroll down to "SCB's utdrag 1898-1937" and click on that.
4. Choose the county of Kronoberg on the next page. (You will see "1" above "Skannade län". Then click on Kronoberg län" in the choices below.)
5. The first year with a picture of the records ("Bild") is 1898. The parish of Virestad will be among all the other parishes in Kronoberg. It will take time to learn approximately where that parish is listed in relation to the others.
6. The records are kept by years. Fbu will be births. Vbu will be marriages. Dbu will be deaths.
7. Records are still secret starting with 1938 and the ones before 1898 are not yet scanned onto the SVAR site. I think you can put in a vote ("Rösta") in an effort to get a particular year scanned earlier than others.
Genline (another fee-based site; I provided a link earlier.) has more of the pre-1900 records than SVAR has and it is trying hard to catch up to SVAR with the later records. There is a big competition between them which can only help those of us who want to do this research online. ;-)
Previously I wrote these directions telling how to research in Swedish parish records. Look at this page.
http://genforum.genealogy.com/peterson/messages/4308.htmlhttp://genforum.genealogy.com/peterson/messages/4308.html
Judy