Kalmar Overview of ArkivDigital's digital archives of the Swedish county Kalmar län

Offical documents from Kalmar 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 around year 1916

District courts/Court of Appeal

• Göta Hovrätt (court of appeal) restored court records from the earliest times to about the year 1730
• Court records Tunaläns häradsrätt (district court) 1668-1799
• Court records Ölands södra mots häradsrätt (district court) 1635-1689 and 1723-1903

Supreme court

• Protocols 1694-1800

Tax/census records

• The chamber archives (Swedish: kammararkivet) copy of tax/census records 1643-1669 (certain years are missing) and occasional later years (archive holder = Mantalslängder 1642-1820 Kalmar län 1643-1820)
• Land office's copy of tax/census records from the years 1644-1820 (certain years are missing)
• District taxation registrar's (Swedish: häradsskrivarens) copy of tax/census records from the earliest times to about the year 1820
• Tax/census records year 1941

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")

Sailor records (Swedish: Sjömanshus)

• Sjömanshuset i Kalmar from the earliest times to about the year 1940
• Sjömanshuset i Oskarshamn from the earliest times to about the year 1940
• Sjömanshuset i Västervik from the earliest times to about 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

Aerial photographs

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

Right now we are photographing

• Property registers ("lagfartsböcker" and "fastighetsböcker") 1875-1932
• Protocols concerning property deals (restored from Svea Hovrätt) 1701-1750