MyHeritage recently added 13.2 million records to its Sweden Household Examination Books, from the years 1800 to 1819, and 4.8 million records from the district of Arnsberg to the Germany, North Rhine Westphalia, Death Index.
Both collections are indexed and include scanned images of the original records.
Sweden
The Sweden Household Examination Books collection now contains 158 million records, from 1800 to 1947.
The Household Examination Books are the primary source for researching the lives of individuals and families throughout the parishes of Sweden, from the late 1600s until modern times. Because the books were updated every year, families can be traced year to year, and often from location to location throughout the country.
The MyHeritage index of the Sweden Household Examination Books is the only one that offers the ability to flip between different records of the same person from different stages of life, from birth to death or emigration.
Germany
The Germany, North Rhine Westphalia (Arnsberg and Münster) Death Index, 1874–1938, was initially published with 2.4 million records from the district of Münster. MyHeritage has added 13.2 million historical records from the years 1800 to 1819.
The collection now contains 158 million records spanning the years 1800 to 1947. In future updates, the death indexes from the districts of Detmold, Düsseldorf, and Köln from North Rhine Westphalia will be added.
MyHeritage is the first to index these images with the full support of the Landesarchiv Nordrhein Westfalen, the State Archives of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Civil death registration records in Germany are kept by the German Civil Registrar and cover 98 percent of the population and became mandatory in all German states by 1876.
