Sweden
Passenger Lists and Other Records
The “Emigranten Populär” database of Swedish passengers travelling to North America but also to Argentina, Australia and New Zealand, Brazil, Denmark, Finland, Germany, Norway and Russia covers the following records:
| Port of Departure | Years | Total Number of Records |
| Gothenburg | 1869-1951 | 1,135,888 |
| Helsingborg | 1929-1950 | 413 |
| Kalmar | 1881-1893 | 3,338 |
| Malmö | 1874-1928 | 165,876 |
| Norrköping | 1859-1922 | 8,545 |
| Stockholm | 1869-1940 | 34,887 |
| Hamburg/Germany | 1850-1891 | 21,708 |
| Copenhagen/Denmark | 1868-1898 | 56,127 |
The data has been obtained from the passenger lists that travel agents were required to draw up and hand in to the police authorities in each port. These lists are today stored in the regional archives in the various districts.
The “Emigranten Populär” database and further information about Swedish emigrants can be found on ancestry.se, as well as more than 5 million Swedish names in various historic databases.
If you do not find your ancestors in the emigration databases, try looking at immigration databases of their destinations, for example:
Background Information
Reasons for Emigration