Halland Overview of ArkivDigital's digital archives of the Swedish county Hallands län

Offical documents from Hallands län are stored in Regional archives in Lund.

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 around 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 Faurås häradsrätt (district court) 1646-1726 and 1729-1761
• Court records Fjäre häradsrätt (district court) 1643-1649, 1667-1672 and 1680-1683
• Court records Halmstads häradsrätt (district court) 1642-1667
• Court records Himle häradsrätt (district court) 1667-1722
• Court records Höks häradsrätt (district court) 1652-1692
• Court records Tönnersjö häradsrätt (district court) 1674-1683 and 1753-1761
• Court records Viske häradsrätt (district court) 1643-1804
• Court records Årstads häradsrätt (district court) 1644-1683 and 1730-1864
• Certain court records from the district courts in the towns

Supreme court

• Protocols 1694-1800

Property registers

• Property registers ("lagfartsböcker" and "fastighetsböcker") 1875-1932

Tax/census records

• The chamber archives (Swedish: kammararkivet) copy of tax/census records from the years 1669-1679, 1681-1687, 1726, 1728, 1784-1787, 1790-1792 and 1810-1820 (archive holder = Mantalslängder 1642-1820 Hallands län 1669-1820)
• Land office's  (Swedish: landskontorets) copy of tax/census records 1674-1820 (scattered years)
• 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")

Prison and arrest

• Fängelset i Halmstad
• Kriminalvårdsanstalten i Halmstad
• Varbergs straffängelse
• Falkenberg stadshäkte
• Faurås häradshäkte
• Fjäre häradshäkte
• Halmstad häradshäkte
• Halmstad stadshäkte
• Höks häradshäkte
• Kungsbacka kronohäkte
• Kungsbacka stadshäkte
• Laholms stadshäkte
• Varbergs kronohäkte
• Varbergs stadshäkte
• Viske häradshäkte
• Årstads häradshäkte
• Lists of prisoners (from the Office of the Chancellor of Justice) 1750-1825

Sailor records (Swedish: Sjömanshus)

• Sjömanshuset i Falkenberg from the earliest times to the year 1939
• Sjömanshuset i Halmstad from the earliest times to about the year 1942
• Sjömanshuset i Varberg from the earliest times to about the year 1942

Aerial photographs

• Aerial photographs (farms, cottages, villas, industrial premises etc.) from the 1950's to the present day. 

Other records

• Post room lists (Swedish: brevdiarier) for Land office (Swedish: landskansli och landskontor) from the earliest times to about the year 1800
• Miscellaneous offical documents from the towns

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• Protocols concerning property deals (restored from Svea Hovrätt) 1701-1750