Göteborg och Bohus länOverview of ArkivDigital's digital archives of the Swedish county Göteborg och Bohus län. |
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Offical documents from Göteborg och Bohus län are stored in Regional archives in Göteborg.
Church records
- Church/parish records from the earliest times to about the year 1941 (or as far as rule of secrecy allows) (household/congregation, migration, birth, marrige and death records). Photographing of the years 1942-1946 (or as far as rule of secrecy allows) is in progress right now.
- Statistiska centralbyråns (SCB; Statistics Sweden) extracts from birth, marriage and death records from the years 1925-1947
- Parish meeting records
- Supplement to migration records from the earliest times to about the year 1825
Estate inventories
- Estate inventory from the earliest times to about the year 1960
- Regional archive's registers of estate inventories
- Estate inventory (nobility) to about the year 1916
District courts/Court of Appeal
- Court records (original documents) from the earliest times to about the year 1700. Also scattered volumes from the period 1701-1903.
- Göta Hovrätt (court of appeal) restored court records from the earliest times to about the year 1730 (-1763 for the city of Göteborg, -1792 for the city of Kungälv)
Supreme court
- Protocols 1694-1800
Tax/census records
- The chamber archives (Swedish: kammararkivet) copy of tax/census records from the years 1669-1763 and 1808-1820 (certain years are missing) (archive holder = Mantalslängder 1642-1820 Göteborgs och Bohus län 1669-1820)
- Land office's copy of tax/census records from the years 1748 and 1764-1807
- District taxation registrar's (Swedish: häradsskrivarens) copy of tax/census records from the earliest times to about the year 1820.
- District taxation registrar's (Swedish: häradsskrivarens) copy of tax/census records even after the year 1820 from parishes where the church records have been destroyed because of fire (Kville, Bottna, Svenneby, Tossene, Askum, Stala, Röra)
- Göteborgs mantalskontors copy of tax/census records for the city of Gothenburg 1637-1655 and scattered years 1813-1947
- Tax/census records the year 1941
Land register
- Land register from the land office 1642-1697
Military
- General Musters lists for the regiments that have existed in this county
- Stamkort (cards with information about men that have been doing their military service) for people enroled approximately 1902-1950
- Lists of qualifications
- Qualification books (meritband) 1757-1883 (from the archives of the army's pension fund)
- Lists of retired soldiers (Swedish: gratialister) (from Krigskollegium Krigsmanshuskontoret)
- The Navy's Lists from about the year 1635 to about the year 1915
- Boatman rolls (from the end of the 19th century)
- Musters lists for ships 1689-1873
- The Navy´s lists of qualifications
- Lists from the Navy's pension fund ("Flottans pensionskassa")
- Göteborg's city soldiers
Sailor records (Swedish: Sjömanshus)
- Göteborg and Lysekil sjömanshus from the earliest times to about the year 1900
- Sjömanshuset i Kungälv from the earliest times to the year 1939
- Sjömanshuset i Marstrand from the earliest times to the year 1940
- Sjömanshuset i Strömstad from the earliest times to the year 1940
- Sjömanshuset i Uddevalla from the earliest times to the year 1940
Prison and arrest
- Lists of prisoners (from the Office of the Chancellor of Justice) 1750-1825
- Lists of prisoners from the earliest times to about the year 1940
Göteborg's cathedral chapter
- General documents to records from the earliest times to about the year 1760
Guild records
- The city of Göteborg: blacksmith, cooper
Aerial photographs
- Aerial photographs (farms, cottages, villas, industrial premises etc.) from the 1950's to the present day.
Other records
- Göteborgs poliskammare, utvandrade personer 1869-1950 (emigration records)
- Family name registers -1800.
- Regional archive's registers of the cities church records.
- Överläkare J A Nordströms samling (transcripts etc. concerning Orust and Tjörn)
Right now we are photographing
- Church records -1946 (see detalied information above, under the heading church records)
- Sjömanshuset i Göteborg (sailor records) 1901-1940
- The Army's Lists 1620-1723 ("Rullor 1620-1723")