VärmlandOverview of ArkivDigital's digital archives of the Swedish county Värmlands län. |
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Offical documents from Värmlands län are stored in Regional archives in Karlstad (Värmlandsarkivet).
Church records
- Church/parish records from the earliest times to about the year 1948 (household/congregation, migration, birth, marrige and death records as far as rule of secrecy allows)
- Statistiska centralbyråns (SCB; Statistics Sweden) extracts from birth, marriage and death records from the years 1925-1947
- Supplement to migration records from the earliest times to about the year 1895
- Confirmation books from the earliest times to about year 1940
- Communion records from the earliest times to about year 1895
- Parish meeting records
Estate inventories
- Estate inventory from the earliest times to around year 1960
- Regional archive's estate inventory registers
- Estate inventory (nobility) to around year 1916
District courts/Court of Appeal
- Court records (original documents) from the earliest times to about year 1800
- Göta Hovrätt (court of appeal) restored court records from the earliest times to about the year 1730
- Protocols concering property deals from the earliest times to about the year 1750
- Supplements to the court records from the earliest times to about the year 1750
Supreme court
- Protocols 1694-1800
Tax/census records
- The chamber archives (Swedish: kammararkivet) copy of tax/census records from the years 1642-1653 and 1779-1803 (archive holder = Mantalslängder 1642-1820 Värmlands län 1642-1803)
- The chamber archives (Swedish: kammararkivet) copy of tax/census records from the years 1654-1778 (some years are missing) (archive holder = Mantalslängder 1642-1820 Örebro län 1642-1820)
- District taxation registrar's (Swedish: häradsskrivarens) copy of tax/census records from the earliest times to about the year 1820
- Tax/census records the year 1941
Prison and arrest
- Lists of prisoners (from the Office of the Chancellor of Justice) 1750-1825
- Lists of prisoner from the county prison and church records to about the year 1940
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)
Sailor records (Swedish: Sjömanshus)
- Sjömanshuset i Karlstad from the earliest times to about the year 1940
Aerial photographs
- Aerial photographs (farms, cottages, villas, industrial premises etc.) from the 1950's to the present day.
Other documents
- Kjell Magnells transcription of Jösse and Gillbergs district court protocols 1602-1699 and Grums district court protocols 1602-1690 with belonging registers.
- Bromanderska collection that contains genealogy investigations and som innehåller släktutredningar och biographical data
- Documents regarding Horrsjöhyttan
- Family name registers -1800.
- Regional archive's registers of the cities church records.
Right now we are photographing
- Property registers ("lagfartsböcker" and "fastighetsböcker") 1875-1932
- Protocols concerning property deals (restored from Svea Hovrätt) 1701-1750