ÖstergötlandOverview of ArkivDigital's digital archives of the Swedish county Östergötlands län. |
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Offical documents from Östergötlands 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
- Court records Hanekinds häradsrätt (district court) 1590-1721
- Court records Hällestad och Tjällmo tingslag (district court) 1599-1756
- Court records Valkebo häradsrätt (district court) 1602-1805
- Court records Vifolka häradsrätt (district court) 1721-1775
Supreme court
- Protocols 1694-1800
Tax/census records
- The chamber archives (Swedish: kammararkivet) copy of tax/census records from the years 1642-1703 (certain years are missing) and occasional later years (archive holder = Mantalslängder 1642-1820 Östergötlands län 1642-1820)
- Land office's copy of tax/census records from the years 1704-1820
- 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
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 Linköping from the earliest times to about the year 1939
- Sjömanshuset i Norrköping from the earliest times to about the year 1940
- Sjömanshuset i Söderköping from the earliest times to about the year 1939
- Sjömanshuset i Vadstena 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
- Lists of prisoners from the earliest times to about the year 1940
Göta Channel Company Archive
- Journal of ships, Journals of passage, documents handlingar regarding personnel, journal of officers, craftsman and letters
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