Älvsborg Overview of ArkivDigital's digital archives of the Swedish county Älvsborgs län.

Offical documents from Älvsborgs 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 frfrom the earliest times to about the year 1825

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 Bjärke häradsrätt (district court) 1607-1829
• Court records Kinds häradsrätt (district court) 1598-1775
• Court records Väne häradsrätt (district court) 1656-1702
• Court records Alingsås rådhusrätt och magistrat (district court) 1630-1726 and 1754-1793
• Court records Borås rådhusrätt och magistrat (district court) 1680-1900
• Court records Ulricehamns rådhusrätt och magistrat (district court) 1575-1719
• Court records Åmåls rådhusrätt och magistrat (district court) 1710-1719, 1728-1800 and 1808-1815

Supreme court

• Protocols 1694-1800

Tax/census records

• District taxation registrar's (Swedish: häradsskrivarens) copy from the earliest times to about the year 1820
• Tax/census records "Mantalslängder 1642-1820 Älvsborgs län"
• Tax/census records the year 1941

Militaria

• 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")

Göteborg's cathedral chapter

• General documents to records from the earliest times to about the year 1760

Skara cathedral chapter

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

Sailor records (Swedish: Sjömanshus)

• From the earliest times to about the year 1886

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. 

Other records

• Family name registers -1800
• Regional archive's registers of the cities church records.
• Various documents from the city archives of Borås

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