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Offical documents from Malmöhus län are stored in Regional archives in Lund and in City archives of Malmö.
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
- Supplement to migration records from the earliest times to about the year 1825
- Account books from the earliest times to about the year 1800
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 1917 (certain years are missing)
District courts/Court of Appeal
- Göta Hovrätt (court of appeal) restored court records from the earliest times to about the year 1730
- Court records Frosta häradsrätt (district court) 1647-1703
- Court records Herrestads häradsrätt (district court) 1763-1832
- Court records Ljunits häradsrätt (district court) 1760-1835
- Certain court records from the district courts in the towns
Supreme court
- Protocols 1694-1800
Property registers
- Property registers ("lagfartsböcker" and "fastighetsböcker") 1875-1932 (except from the city of Helsingborg)
Tax/census records
- The chamber archives (Swedish: kammararkivet) copy of tax/census records from the years 1658-1764 and 1815-1820 (archive holder = Mantalslängder 1642-1820 Malmöhus län 1658-1820)
- Land office's copy of tax/census records from the years 1765-1814
- 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)
Prison and arrest
- Landskrona fängelse (prison)
- Landskrona tvångsarbetsanstalt (penal labour institution)
- Malmö centralfängelse (central prison)
- Malmö länsfängelse (county jail)
- Kriminalvårdsanstalten i Malmö (prison)
- Frosta häradshäkte (district arrest)
- Färs häradshäkte (district arrest)
- Harjager häradshäkte (district arrest)
- Helsingborg stadshäkte (city arrest)
- Herrestad häradshäkte (district arrest)
- Landskrona kronohäkte (arrest)
- Landskrona stadshäkte (city arrest)
- Luggude häradshäkte (district arrest)
- Lunds stadshäkte (city arrest)
- Malmö stadshäkte (city arrest)
- Onsjö häradshäkte (district arrest)
- Oxie och Skytts häradshäkte (district arrest)
- Rönnebergs häradshäkte (district arrest)
- Skanörs stadshäkte (city arrest)
- Torna och Bara häradshäkte (district arrest)
- Trelleborgs stadshäkte (city arrest)
- Vemmenhögs häradshäkte (district arrest)
- Ystad kronohäkte (arrest)
- Ystad stadshäkte (city arrest)
- Lists of prisoners (from the Office of the Chancellor of Justice) 1750-1825
Sailor records (Swedish: Sjömanshus)
- Sjömanshuset i Helsingborg from the earliest times to about the year 1942
- Sjömanshuset i Landskrona from the earliest times to about the year 1942
- Sjömanshuset i Malmö from the earliest times to about the year 1942
- Sjömanshuset i Trelleborg from the earliest times to about the year 1942
- Sjömanshuset i Ystad from the earliest times to about the year 1942
Miscellaneous offical documents from City of Malmö
- Poliskammarens utvandrarlistor (1874-1939) (emigration records)
- Accisrätten (1691-1811)
- Bytinget (1577-1677)
- Rådhusrättens domböcker (court records) (1503-1810) and inneliggande handlingar (supplements to the court records) (-1740)
- Rådhusrättens småprotokoll (protocols concering property deals) 1768-1875
- Rådhusrättens inteckningsböcker (mortgage books) 1683-1875
- Hall- och manufakturrätten (1749-1846)
- Kämnärsrättens domböcker (court records) (1685-1849) and inneliggande handlingar (supplements to the court records) (1687-1849)
- Magistraten (1429-1929)
- Sjötullrätten (1708-1831)
- Borgerskapet i Malmö (1517-1869)
- Inkvarteringsverket i Malmö (1666-1801)
- Landtullkammaren i Malmö (1680-1810)
- Skråhandlingar (1552-1944)
- Tullkammaren i Malmö (1660-1801)
- Brandförsäkringskommittén i Malmö (fire insurances etc. 1828-1942)
- Fattigvårdsstyrelsen i Malmö (rolls/registers concerning paupers and foster children etc. 1806-1943)
- Inskrivningsdomarna i Malmö, fastighetsböcker (property registers)
Aerial photographs
- Aerial photographs (farms, cottages, villas, industrial premises etc.) from the 1950's to the present day.
Other records
- Catechetical records
- Post room lists (Swedish: brevdiarier) for Land office (Swedish: landskansli och landskontor) from the earliest times to about the year 1800
- Church curiosities from year 1830
- Various official documents from the cities
- Ragnar Odhnoffs Genealogy collection
- Various offical documents from kronobarnhuset i Malmö, Landskrona hospital, Lunds hospital, Malmö barnhus, Malmö hospital, Malmö hospitalskontor, Malmö hospitalsläkare och Ystads hospital
- Skånes Släktforskarförbunds arkiv (copies of tax records and some other documents, mostly from the Danish time/before the year 1658)
- The county's public announcements (Swedish: Länskungörelser) 1765-1916
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- Protocols concerning property deals (restored from Svea Hovrätt) 1701-1750