Indexes to books about Swedes in America,
Read about them on this Swedish Roots Life Sketches page

How to read the index and locate the books:
Below is an index of names that we made from the above books. The Reference number in the index begins with the code # we assigned to the book the entry came from, and the number after the colon is the page number where the name was found in the book. To look at the book itself, go to your local public library's interlibrary loan department and have them do a nationwide search for the book and request that it be sent to your library for you. If libraries find any of the books to be in too old or bad condition to lend, you can request photocopies via interlibrary loan of the pages you specify.

Tips about spellings of names and places:
Spellings are shown as they are in the books, even if they have changed over the years. The spellings of Swedish place names in these books were sometimes old spellings, phonetic, or even erroneous. Remember to look for Carlson starting with both 'c' and 'k.'  'V' & 'w' are also interchangeable, as are sometimes 's' and 'z.' Some parish names beginning with 'v' used to start with a 'silent-h,' so you might find Vetlanda under Hvetlanda or even Hwetlanda. Also, the Swedish vowels å, ä, and ö ordinarily fall at the end of the alphabet, but our database did not sort them that way, so look for your Åbergs with the 'a's instead of after 'z.' At the bottom of the page is a guide to the county abbreviations that are shown in parentheses after the Swedish birthplaces.

How to search the index:
Use CTRL-F to search for specific text (Mac-users use Apple-F). Or, use your "Page Down" key to browse all of the names.


To surnames A through E

To surnames F through K

To surnames P through Z