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Titel: SV: How to search for my Swedish ancestors
Skrivet av: KG Hammarlund skrivet 2023-05-22, 16:41
You can access parish records for free through the Swedish National Archives: https://sok.riksarkivet.se/digitala-forskarsalen
Starting with the birth record (giving the parents' names and domicile) you can find the family in the household census books.
Gustaf Adolf, born 1853, can be found in Arboga town with his father Gustaf Adolf, his mother Brita Catharina Berg, and his siblings Carl August (born 1848) and Josephina Carolina (born 1850):
Gustaf Adolf the elder was a shoemaker journeyman. On the page there's also the dramatic note that he committed suicide (hanged himself) September 9 1855.
And here is Emma Christina with her parents Erik Berg (crofter) and Anna Christina Andersdotter in Fellingsbro: