Research
The Research department is open Wednesday to Friday 10 am to 4 pm. Mail contact only. If using comcast or bellsouth e-mail addresses, please note that we cannot answer to these addresses. Please write your postal address and we will answer by the regular postal service.

Visitors to the archives and the library are welcome after having made an appointment. Several of our databases can be found on www.emiweb.se

Our research room is equipped with microfilm readers, xerox and computer service. The extensive source material on emigration and family history is easily accessed and explained by research assistants.
For the moment we have access to data bases of the following historical sources:

1. Local Swedish church records for more than 1 million emigrants.

2. Passenger lists, approximately 1.3 million names.

3. Swedish immigrant members located in the membership records of the Swedish-American churces, approximately 200 000 names.

4. GRS or the Social Security Death Benefit Records, register of U.S. citizens passed away 1936-1994.

Before writing to us you should collect as much information as possible in your own country about the emigrant. Try to find out where the immigrant´s children were baptised and confirmed. Search for old letters and other documents from Sweden. Try to obtain copies of naturalisation records etc.

Enclose US dollar 60 in cash (because of the very high exchange rate in Swedish banking system we do not accept checks) for each individual to be searched.
For further information please contact us
   
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