Jönköping Overview of ArkivDigital's digital archives of the Swedish county Jönköpings län

Offical documents from Jönköpings län are stored in Regional archives in Vadstena.

Church records

• Church/parish records from the earliest times to about the year 1948 (or as far as rule of secrecy allows) (household/congregation, migration, birth, marrige and death records)
• Statistiska centralbyråns (SCB; Statistics Sweden) extracts from birth, marriage and death records from the years 1925-1947

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

• Göta Hovrätt (court of appeal) restored court records from the earliest times to about the year 1730
• Eksjö rådhusrätt 1615-1754 (restored court records)
• Court records Jönköpings rådhusrätt och magistrat (district court) 1584-1740
• Court records Norra Vedbo häradsrätt (district court) 1565-1768

Supreme court

• Protocols 1694-1800

Tax/census records

• The chamber archives (Swedish: kammararkivet) copy of tax/census records from the years 1643-1685, and a few later years (archive holder = Mantalslängder 1642-1820 Jönköpings län 1643-1820)
• Land office's copy of tax/census records from the years 1686-1820
• District taxation registrar (häradsskrivarens) copy of tax/census records from the earliest times to about the year 1820
• Tax/census records the year 1941

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)

Sailor records (Swedish: Sjömanshus)

• Sjömanshuset i Jönköping from the earliest times to about the year 1939

Prison and arrest

• Lists of prisoners (from the Office of the Chancellor of Justice) 1750-1825

Aerial photographs

• Aerial photographs (farms, cottages, villas, industrial premises etc.) from the 1950's to the present day. 

Other records

• Catechetical records

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• Property registers ("lagfartsböcker" and "fastighetsböcker") 1875-1932
• The Army's Lists 1620-1723 ("Rullor 1620-1723")