Skaraborg Overview of ArkivDigital's digital archives of the Swedish county Skaraborgs län.

Offical documents from Göteborg och Bohus län are stored in Regional archives in Göteborg.

Church records

• Church/parish records from the earliest times to about the year 1941 (or as far as rule of secrecy allows) (household/congregation, migration, birth, marrige and death records). Photographing of the years 1942-1946 (or as far as rule of secrecy allows) is in progress right now.
• Statistiska centralbyråns (SCB; Statistics Sweden) extracts from birth, marriage and death records from the years 1925-1947
• Parish meeting records
• Supplement to migration records from the earliest times to about the year 1825

Estate inventories

• Estate inventory from the earliest times to about the year 1960
• Regional archive's estate inventory registers
• 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 Barne häradsrätt (district court) 1603-1705 and 1720-1800
• Court records Gudhems häradsrätt (district court) 1595-1661
• Court records Kinne häradsrätt (district court) 1602-1699
• Court records Laske häradsrätt (district court) 1749-1800
• Court records Skånings häradsrätt (district court) 1559-1802
• Court records Viste häradsrätt (district court) 1544-1800
• Court records Åse häradsrätt (district court) 1557-1800 (certain years are missing)
• Court records Mariestads rådhusrätt och magistrat (district court) 1622-1705

Supreme court

• Protocols 1694-1800

Tax/census records

• The chamber archives (Swedish: kammararkivet) copy of tax/census records 1642-1671, 1677-1691 (certain years are missing) and occasional later years (archive holder = Mantalslängder 1642-1820 Skaraborgs län 1642-1820)
• Land office's copy of tax/census records 1672-1675 and 1695-1820
• 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

Land register

• Land register from the land office 1636-1725

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)

Sailor records (Swedish: Sjömanshus)

• Sjömanshuset i Lidköping from the earliest times to 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

Skara cathedral chapter

• Journal of vaccinated in the entire episcopate 1805-1830
• Announcement of marriage in the entire episcopate 1787-1794

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. 

Other records

• Family name registers -1800
• Regional archive's registers of the cities church records
• The county's public announcements (Swedish: Länskungörelser) 1749-1908 (certain years are missing)

Right now we are photographing

• Church records -1946 (see detalied information above, under the heading church records)
• Protocols concerning property deals (restored from Svea Hovrätt) 1701-1750