Göteborg och Bohus län Overview of ArkivDigital's digital archives of the Swedish county Göteborg och Bohus län.

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
• The Army's Lists 1620-1723 ("Rullor 1620-1723")
• 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
• Protocols concerning property deals (restored from Svea Hovrätt) 1701-1750