Archive guide · SE
Riksarkivet (Sweden) — registers & archives
searched live by Provara
What it holds
Indexed birth, marriage and death register entries (parish, date, parents), plus archive volumes and AI-transcribed text
Who runs it, and on what terms
- Provider
- Swedish National Archives
- Licence for use here
- Metadata CC0 1.0; images Public Domain Mark
- Attribution
- Cite 'Riksarkivet' with the record link
- Cost to search
- free
- Terms read
- 2026-09-06
- Official documentation
- https://sok.riksarkivet.se/data-api/api/anvandarvillkor-api
How to search it in Provara
- Birth, marriage and death records: ask Provara for a birth, marriage or death by name, place and year.
- Church books: ask Provara for a baptism or parish marriage.
- Archive catalogues and finding aids: ask Provara what an archive holds on a family or a place.
- Provara searches this archive alongside every other live one, ranks what comes back by how many of the person's recorded facts each hit contains, and shows you the record with a ready citation. Nothing is added to your tree until you confirm it.
Record types here
- Birth, marriage and death records — Civil registration and church registers: the dates and parents that anchor every generation.
- Church books — Baptisms, marriages and burials kept by parishes, often the only record before the state began counting.
- Archive catalogues and finding aids — Descriptions of what an archive holds, so you know what to request before you travel or write.
No card needed. Build and source your tree free; search these archives free; the assistant's research runs on tokens.
Every licence on these pages was read from the archive's own terms on the date shown. Provara proposes only what a record it has read supports, shows the record beside the claim, and marks anything unsourced as a hypothesis. Nothing on this page states a fact about any person.