Swedish National Archives Free Beginning 2018

Beginning in 2018 Sweden will join the other Scandinavian countries in allowing free access to the digitized records of the Riksarkivet (Swedish National Archives.)  This will provide access to most church records, and many tax, court, and land records, among many other records.

However, these digitized images are the older black and white images that are often not as readable as the new color digitized images that ArkivDigital offers.  It is currently not clear what will happen with ArkivDigital.  Sveriges Släktfroskarförbund (The Swedish Genealogical Society) is working with the Government and ArkivDigital to try and work something out.  ArkivDigital not only has better and more readable images, but they have a lot of images that are not otherwise available online.  Hopefully, something can be worked out that will be good for ArkivDigital and all genealogist!

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