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

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

Church records

• Church/parish records from the earliest times to about the year 1947 (or as far as rule of secrecy allows) (household/congregation, migration, birth, marrige and death records). Photographing of the year 1948 (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
• 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 about the year 1917 (certain years are missing)

District courts/Court of Appeal

• Göta Hovrätt (court of appeal) restored court records from the earliest times to about the year 1730
• Court records Ingelstads häradsrätt (district court) 1666-1758
• Court records Villands häradsrätt (district court) 1672-1840 and 1842-1865
• 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

• Land office's copy of tax/census records from the earliest times to about the year 1812
• District taxation registrar's (Swedish: häradsskrivarens) copy of tax/census records from the earliest times to about the year 1820
• Tax/census records year 1941 (City of Kristianstad is missing)

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 Kristianstad from the earliest times to about the year 1942
• Sjömanshuset i Simrishamn from the earliest times to about the year 1942

Prison and arrest

• Kriminalvårdsanstalten i Kristianstad
• Kristianstads fästningsfängelse
• Albo häradshäkte
• Gärds häradshäkte
• Ingelstads och Järrestads häradshäkte
• Kristianstads stadshäkte
• Norra och Södra Åsbo häradshäkte
• Simrishamns stadshäkte
• Västra Göinge häradshäkte
• Ängelholms kronohäkte
• Östra Göinge häradshäkte
• Lists of prisoners (from the Office of the Chancellor of Justice) 1750-1825

Cathedral chapter

• Adultery records -1816 (scattered years)

Aerial photographs

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

Other records

• Replacement documents for burned church records.
• Catechetical records
• Post room lists (Swedish: brevdiarier) for Land office  (Swedish: landskansli och landskontor) from the earliest times to about the year 1800
• Church curiosities from year 1830
• Miscellaneous offical documents from the towns
• Ragnar Odhnoffs Genealogy collection
• Miscellaneous offical documents from Kristianstads hospital
• Miscellaneous documents from Rössjöholms säteri
• Skånes Släktforskarförbunds arkiv (copies of tax records and some other documents, mostly from the Danish time/before the year 1658)

Right now we are photographing

• Church records 1948 (see detalied information above, under the heading church records)
• Protocols concerning property deals (restored from Svea Hovrätt) 1701-1750