Other Tools:

Mesa Arizona Regional Family History Center
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Other Tools for Scandinavian Research

See the mesarfhc.org web site

Southern Sweden: http://www.ddss.nu
Genline - images available in the Swedish Church Records archive; it is a subscription site: www.genline.com/

mesarfhc.org and familysearch.org – for listings of films, books and other media which may be available.

The copy room at Mesa Regional Family History Center has wordlists and research guidelines available, familysearch.org – search, research helps - has the wordlists and research guidelines on line, listed by the country. These lists are printable.

Misc. Information: A specific location in the country of interest is usually necessary.

Church Records: The Scandinavian Countries had a state religion, Evangelical Lutheran Church, and the official record keepers were the Lutheran Ministers. These churches had ministers who came to the US and established churches in the Scandinavian communities in the US. At times, their practices of keeping records continued in a similar fashion.

• Census Records: Listed by county but you must know the name of the parish and district to use these records.

Military Records:
Probate Records: Listed by County but you must know the name of your parish and district to search these records.
The Scandinavian Extraction Manual. Call number 948/D27s.
Swedish Genealogical Dictionary. Call number 948.5/D27ph/1955.

• Post og Telfgraf Addressbog for Kongeriget Danmark. Call number 948.9/E8g/1964.
Dannish place name finder.

· Svensk Ortforteckning. Call number 948.5/E8su/1974, Georgrafiskt statistiskt handlexikon ofver
Sverige FHL Film # 873678 & #873679.

Genealogical Guidebook and Atlas of Denmark. Call number 948.9/E6s.
Danish/English, Norwegian/English, Swedish/English dictionaries found in the reference stacks.