The Swedish Church's responsibility for population registration ceased in 1991 and in 2000 it was decided that population registration archives and church municipal documents would be handed over to the National Archives.
When Älvdalen hands over its archive on May 14, the National Archives' collection will be complete, which can both provide new knowledge and enable research, according to the authority's unit manager for supervision and receipt of archives, Petra Dornbusch.
"An example of this is the witch trials where we already have the protocols from the court proceedings in Österdalarnas judicial district, the district court's archive. Now they are complemented by the church archives," she says in a press release.
The archive consists of population registration documents up to 1991 and church municipal documents up to and including 1999. The National Archives will now go through and digitize the documents. As far as secrecy permits, they will be available in the National Archives' digital research room.
