Hi Pamela (and others)! pamela m <with several addressess> wrote in newsgroup soc.genealogy.nordic | Hi! | I was trying to find out how to get a birth certificate from 1906. | I live in the USA and need to know what/who I need to go through to get | this. | Can anyone help? Please and Thank You! | email me at: KJsLady@hotmail.com | please add to the subject line: SWEDISH BIRTH RECORD/CERTIFICATE | In Sweden, we don't have birth certificates the way you do in the US. Before 1991, when a change in legislation took place, we were recorded in the birth book of the parish our parents lived in. When a person later in life needed to prove who he/she was, one would go to the parish clerk and get an extract for the purpose in question. For genealogical purposes, most people considers checking (and copying) the birth books are enough - no request of an extract is considered needed for documentation (you just cite the birth book in question) - unlike the US, but there you have few other sources. For 1906 - depending on which parish it is, I would either check 1. the birth book (as it is filmed onto microfiche for the northern part of Sweden and available on loan in Sweden, I don't know about the US, but I think that if not through the LDS/Family History Center so through the Swenson Swedish Immigration Research Center (Rock Island, Ill., USA) http://www.augustana.edu/administration/SWENSON/ ), 2. the birth books from ca 1900 to 1920 are also available in extracts called SCB-birth books for all parishes on microfiche. 3. write to the parish in question (one list of parishes is available at the website of the Swedish Church www.svenskakyrkan.se , they are restructuring at the moment but the list is still at http://www.svenskakyrkan.se/stift/stift.htm) You have to live with the fact that all info is in Swedish, but församling=parish, e-mail=e-post (or the ungullable text with an @ in it .... <smile>) and people at the office of the parish will understand a letter in English. Best of luck. Eva Dahlberg