was formed in September 1982 in Växjö, and is a nonprofit society with the mission of promoting family history research in the county of Kronoberg.
Interest in genealogy has grown over the years and the number of members in the society, currently amounts to approx 1900.
The society is connected to The Federation of Swedish Genealogical Societies.
Membership
You can also become a member of our society. As a member you will receive our magazine four times a year. Note that the magazine is written in Swedish
If you want to become a member please send an email with your name and address to KGF
Database
We have a database of birth marriage and death books from the parishes in the county of Kronoberg. There are almost 100 parishes in the county. We now have 1.500.000 records in the database.
CD KGF Databas 2013
In november 2009 the new Database CD named CD KGF Databas 2010 were released.
The database is for sale on CD-ROM if you are a member of KGF. Please contact us for
further information.
Searches
If you would like us to search the database for you, please give us facts about what you
are looking for, such as names, years, parishes, etc.
Please note the following:
- The database includes only the parishes of Kronoberg county in Småland.
- The database is not on the Internet.
If we find what you ask for, we request a payment of 50 SEK (Swedish kronor), plus
postage (the payment can be made with 10 International Reply Coupons). If we cannot
help you, it costs nothing! Abbreviations used in the database are F for Births; V for
Marriages; D for Deaths.
Write to KGF:
Kronobergs Genealogiska Förening
Värendsgatan 12 C
SE-342 30 Alvesta
Sweden
or send an e-mail to KGF
Roots - http://www.genealogi.se/roots/
The most extensive swedish genealogy-website with, among other things, a lot of links to other swedish genealogical societies.
