About Sweden

Links to Swedish provinces, counties, municipalities, museums, official hompages, national parks, world heritage, maps, facts on Sweden and more.

EuroDocs: Online Sources for European History

Selected transcriptions, facsimiles and translations.

FamilySearch Research Guidance - Sweden Historical Background

Kungl. Hovstaterna / The Royal Court in Sweden

Maritim historia: Litteratur & Länkbibliotek

Links to maritime history and genealogy sites. The crash of the shipbuilding industry in Ostrobothnia, Finland in the late 19th century was one of the main causes of the subsequent mass emigration to North America.

Svensk Aristokrati

Listing of noble and aristocratic families in and from the Kingdom of Sweden.
[The original link is broken. This link points to an archived copy on the Wayback Machine]

The S/S Atlantic of the White Star Line, disaster in 1873

Includes a listing of the the Norwegian and Scandinavian passengers on the ship when it went down off Halifax in 1873.

Where Did The Swedes Go?

The Causes of Swedish Immigration and Settlement Patterns in America written by Historian, Rickie Lazzerini. This research examines the Swedes of New Sweden and the Swedes of the 19th and early 20th centuries in order to explore the reasons they came to America and how those reasons helped dictate where they settled.

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