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| Östergötland | Landskap (province) |
| Landskap
Östergötland is the about same area as
Östergötlands län. It belongs to
Linköpings stift ( diocese). Abbr.: Ög Central cities: Norrköping and Linköping (together 60% of pop). Area: 9 987 sqkm. Pop: 389 757 (1981). |
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| Härader: List | Härader: Map | Map all parishes |
| Boxholm | Finspång | Kinda | Linköping | Mjölby | Motala | Norrköping |
| Söderköping | Vadstena | Valdemarsvik | Ydre | Åtvidaberg | Ödeshög |
| Topic | Name | Description | Link | L | ||||||||
| General | SCB# 05 | |||||||||||
| Local History | Centre for Local History, Linköping Univ. | Rich source for history and old culture | >Go> | S | ||||||||
| Culture | Kulturarv, Linköping University. | >Go> | S | |||||||||
| Regional | Östgöta Genealogiska Förening | Regional Genealogical Association | S | |||||||||
| Hembygdsföreningar | Local Heritage Societies | Links page | S | |||||||||
| Current Info | Östergötland på Internet | Current info about the province, many links | Places | S | ||||||||
| DIS Östergötland | Föreningen för datorhjälp i släktforskningen | Computers in Genealogy. General genealogy site | >Go> | S | ||||||||
| Facts | ||||||||||||
| Härader | Division into härader. "Större delen" = Major part, "Mindre del" = minor part, "hälften" = half | >Go> | S | |||||||||
| Härader | Map of all parishes and list of härader with socken list for each | >Go> | S | |||||||||
| Churches | Descriptions (RAÄ) | Swedish state church buildings | S | |||||||||
| Gårdsregister | List of farms, Northern Östergötland county | Socknar: Godegård, Hällestad, Kristberg, Ljung, Regna, Risinge, Skedevi, Tjällmo, Vreta Kloster med Stjärnorp, Vånga | >Go> | S | ||||||||
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| Boxholm | Kommun home page. - Churches: Go "Turism - Kyrkor". - Local heritage societies: Go "Föreningar - Hembygd .." (Ekeby, Malexander and Åsbo have them). |
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| Motala | Kommun home page.
Places: Borensberg, Medevi, Övralid, Godegård, Tjällmo and Fornåsa. (Check the Kommun home page above) |
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| Söderköping | Kommun home page. - Local societies for history and culture: Go "Föreningsregister", select "Kultur" and click "Sök" Use "bygdegårdsförening", "hembygdsförening" and "byalag". |
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| Vadstena | Kommun home page.
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| Churches Sankt Per - "Rödtornet" (the Red Tower) is no longer in use as a church but instead used by the town council. All except the tower was demolished in 1829 but it is still used as a bell tower (the other city church has no bells). See pictures here |
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| Åtvidaberg | Old and new | Church Descriptions (RAÄ) | S | |||||||||
| Article on emigration of 67 people in 1856, Åtvid parish. Database in the local library | S | |||||||||||
| SCB# 0561. Socknar: Åtvid: Björsäter: SE of Linköping, Bankekinds hd. List of all villages/farms. Pop: 731 (1974), 1 415 (1940). Parts of a 14th century church are preserved in the museum. |
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| Family data: I R Pettersson. Also other parishes nearby. | ||||||||||||
| Family data: Nils Björling. | ||||||||||||
| Family data: H B Bengtsson | ||||||||||||
| Grebo: Värna: Yxnerum: Björsäter kommun, now part of Åtvidaberg kn, included Björsäter, Grebo, Värna and Yxnerum sn. |
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| Ödeshög | Kommun home page. | |||||||||||
| Vifolka härad | H Mosén: Description of sources. For a list of socknar in this härad see above | >Go> | S | |||||||||
| Specific Sources | >GO> | |||||||||||
SCB# = SCB Id number. RAÄ =Riksantikvarieämbetet. "sn" = socken,
"kn" = kommun.
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