Hello, I am trying to learn more about the lives of my great-great grandparents and their children, most of whom lived in and around Engelholm. My great-grandparents were Johan Lauritz Hansson (d. 1914) and Anna Thorsson (d. 1929). Were obituaries common at that time, and if so, how would I go about looking for them?
Thank you,
Prentiss

I don't think that ordinary people had obituaries which would be useful. You can learn MUCH more from the parish records and from the estate inventories.

Too bad you didn't tell us when these people were born.

Could this be your "Johan Lauritz Hansson"?

DVD "Swedish Death Index 1901-2009":

18580420

Hansson, Johan Lauritz

Gladan 3

Dead 12/7/1914.

Registered in Ängelholm (Kristianstads län, Skåne).

Born 4/20/1858 in Danmark, Köpenhamn.

Married man (4/6/1885).
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Corresponding parish(es) as of Jan 1, 2010:
Ängelholm, Ängelholms kn (Skåne län, Skåne)

Parish of birth in the records:
Danmark, Köpenhamn (Denmark, Copenhagen)

Source records:
DB


You had an incorrect year of death for Anna.

18500322

Hansson f. Thorsson, Anna

Gladan 3

Dead 3/2/1928.

Registered in Ängelholm (Kristianstads län, Skåne).

Born 3/22/1850 in Stora Köpinge (Malmöhus län, Skåne).

Widow (12/7/1914).
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Corresponding parish(es) as of Jan 1, 2010:
Ängelholm, Ängelholms kn (Skåne län, Skåne)

Parish of birth in the records:
Stora Köpinge (Malmöhus)

Source records:
DB
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Judy

1900 Swedish Census CD:

Hansen, Johan Lauritz 1858 Father
Thorsson, Anna 1850 Mother
(Barn), Tor Johan Anton 1886 Child
(Barn), Hildevig Marta Kristina 1887 Child
(Barn), Kristian Gösta Hilding 1889 Child
(Barn), Ester Anna Rut 1892 Child


Record 544882

Hansen, Johan Lauritz
Brandmästare

b. 1858 in Danmark

Man, married, father

Gladan
Ängelholm (Kristianstads län, Skåne)

Place of birth (original source): Köpenhamn


Record 544880

Thorsson, Anna

b. 1850 in Stora Köpinge (Malmöhus län, Skåne)

h.
Woman, married, mother

Gladan
Ängelholm (Kristianstads län, Skåne)

Place of birth (original source): Stora Köpinge Malmöhus län


Record 544881

Tor Johan Anton

b. 1886 in Ystad (Malmöhus län, Skåne)

s.
Boy, child

Gladan
Ängelholm (Kristianstads län, Skåne)

Place of birth (original source): Ystad Malmöhus län


Record 544879

Hildevig Marta Kristina

b. 1887 in Ystad (Malmöhus län, Skåne)

d.
Girl, child

Gladan
Ängelholm (Kristianstads län, Skåne)

Place of birth (original source): Ystad Malmöhus län


Record 544877

Kristian Gösta Hilding

b. 1889 in Ystad (Malmöhus län, Skåne)

s.
Boy, child

Gladan
Ängelholm (Kristianstads län, Skåne)

Place of birth (original source): Ystad Malmöhus län


Record 544878

Ester Anna Rut

b. 1892 in Ängelholm (Kristianstads län, Skåne)

d.
Girl, child

Gladan
Ängelholm (Kristianstads län, Skåne)

Place of birth (original source): Ängelholm Kristianstads län
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I looked for the children in the Swedish Death Index dvd.

18860208-417

Hansson, Thor Johan Anton

Drottninggatan 118

Dead 4/26/1948.

Registered in Helsingborgs Maria (Malmöhus län, Skåne).

Born 2/8/1886 in Ystad (Malmöhus län, Skåne).

Married man (10/23/1909).
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Corresponding parish(es) as of Jan 1, 2010:
Helsingborgs Maria, Helsingborgs kn (Skåne län, Skåne)
Filborna, Helsingborgs kn (Skåne län, Skåne)

Parish of birth in the records:
Ystad (Malmöhus)



Source records:
DB, FS


This is the death record for his wife.

18840417-412

Hansson f. Lundborg, Ellis Katarina Maria

Drottninggatan 118

Dead 8/17/1953.

Registered in Helsingborgs Maria, Helsingborgs kn (Malmöhus län, Skåne).

Born 4/17/1884 in Katarina (Stockholms stad, Uppland).

Widow (4/26/1948).
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Corresponding parish(es) as of Jan 1, 2010:
Helsingborgs Maria, Helsingborgs kn (Skåne län, Skåne)
Filborna, Helsingborgs kn (Skåne län, Skåne)

Parish of birth in the records:
Katarina (Stockholm)

Source records:
DB, FS / DOR 52-60
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18870426-370

Christiansson f. Hansson, Hildevig Marta Kristina

Storgatan 58, Ängelholm

Dead 12/12/1961.

Registered in Ängelholm, Ängelholms kn (Kristianstads län, Skåne).

Born 4/26/1887 in Ystad (Malmöhus län, Skåne).

Married woman (11/26/1915).
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Corresponding parish(es) as of Jan 1, 2010:
Ängelholm, Ängelholms kn (Skåne län, Skåne)

Parish of birth in the records:
Ystad (Malmöhus)

Source records:
DB, PA / DOR 61



This is the death record for her husband.

18840930-3735

Christiansson, Jean Emil

Storg 58
262 00 Ängelholm
(Address as of Nov 1, 1970)

Dead 7/17/1975.

Registered (1968) in Ängelholm, Ängelholms kn (Kristianstads län, Skåne). Registered for taxation (1968) in the same parish.

Born 9/30/1884 in Förslöv (Kristianstads län, Skåne).

Widower (12/12/1961).
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Corresponding parish(es) as of Jan 1, 2010:
Ängelholm, Ängelholms kn (Skåne län, Skåne)

Parish of birth in the records:
Förslöv (Kristianstad)

Source records:
MTL 71 / RTB 75
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18920113-3908

Ljungberg f. Hansson, Ester Anna Rut

Pålsjögatan 21 D

Dead 8/23/1970.

Registered in Helsingborgs Maria, Helsingborgs kn (Malmöhus län, Skåne).

Born 1/13/1892 in Ängelholm (Kristianstads län, Skåne).

Widow (9/9/1969).
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Corresponding parish(es) as of Jan 1, 2010:
Helsingborgs Maria, Helsingborgs kn (Skåne län, Skåne)
Filborna, Helsingborgs kn (Skåne län, Skåne)

Parish of birth in the records:
Ängelholm (Kristianstad)

Source records:
DB, FS / RTB 70 / UTD 70d


This is the death record for her husband.

18871201-4136

Ljungberg, Karl Sture

Pålsjögatan 21 D

Dead 9/9/1969.

Registered in Helsingborgs Maria, Helsingborgs kn (Malmöhus län, Skåne).

Born 12/1/1887 in Mörarp (Malmöhus län, Skåne).

Married man (8/23/1916).
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Corresponding parish(es) as of Jan 1, 2010:
Helsingborgs Maria, Helsingborgs kn (Skåne län, Skåne)
Filborna, Helsingborgs kn (Skåne län, Skåne)

Parish of birth in the records:
Mörarp (Malmöhus)

Source records:
PA / RTB 69 / UTD 69d
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I did not see Kristian Gösta Hilding on the death dvd.

Judy

1890 Swedish Census CD:

Hansen, Johan Lauritz 1858 F
Thorsson, Anna 1850 M
(Barn), Thor Johan Anton 1886 Ch
(Barn), Hildevig Martha Christina 1887 Ch
(Barn), Christian Gösta Hilding 1889 Ch


Post 1834154

Hansen, Johan Lauritz
Brandtmästare

b. 1858 i Danmark

Man, married (father)

(Köpenhamn) Dansk nationalitet

Qvarteret Lärkan
Ängelholm (Kristianstads län, Skåne)

Place of birth (original source): Köpenhamn


Post 1834155

Thorsson, Anna

b. 1850 i Stora Köpinge (Malmöhus län, Skåne)

h.
Woman, married (mother)

Qvarteret Lärkan
Ängelholm (Kristianstads län, Skåne)

Place of birth (original source): St. Köpinge


Post 1834158

Thor Johan Anton

b. 1886 i Ystad (Malmöhus län, Skåne)

s.
Boy (child)

Qvarteret Lärkan
Ängelholm (Kristianstads län, Skåne)

Place of birth (original source): Ystad


Post 1834156

Hildevig Martha Christina

b. 1887 i Ystad (Malmöhus län, Skåne)

d.
Girl (child)

Qvarteret Lärkan
Ängelholm (Kristianstads län, Skåne)

Place of birth (original source): Ystad


Post 1834157

Christian Gösta Hilding

b. 1889 i Ystad (Malmöhus län, Skåne)

s.
Boy (child)

Qvarteret Lärkan
Ängelholm (Kristianstads län, Skåne)

Place of birth (original source): Ystad


Judy

Most Swedes did not get obituaries in the newspapers, just a short death notice.

Here is a death notice from 2012, scroll down to see more of them:

http://bohuslaningen.se/familjenytt/bilderannonser/avlidnata...

// Bo johanson

Thank you Judy for all this information. My great-grandfather was Kristian Hansson, who came to the United States, which is why you didn't find him in the death index. I am still trying to create more of a narrative around his family that remained in Sweden, and perhaps the only good way to do that is to make contact with living relatives. How does one go about learning of Kristian's nephews and nieces that lived and died in Sweden, and from there find out about any living relatives? I have already found many of them with ancestry's birth index 1880-1920, but this doesn't allow for finding information on people born after 1920 or who are still alive.
Thank you

You can find a great deal of information using the Swedish parish records. They are online, for a fee, on these sites. (Ancestry.com's world edition also has scanned Swedish parish records, but if you aren't already subscribed, the other services are much better.)

http://www.genline.com

http://www.svar.ra.se

http://www.arkivdigital.net

The records are not going to be indexed. The scans are from the parish books used by the ministers. You already have enough information to get started, however. ;-)

I suggest that you obtain the bouppteckningar (estate inventories) for the people found on the death index. Those will name living children at the time of their death. Then ask for lookups for any additional children you find in the parish records. Eventually you will get to generations which are likely to be still alive. At that point, ask for lookups on the cds for 1870, 1980, and 1990. The information from those cds will allow you to use the online sources which provide addresses, etc.

There are birth, marriage, and death records available online (unindexed by name, of course) on SVAR and Genline (and presumably the world version of Ancestry.com. Arkiv Digital tends to scan the original records and the other services do that too, but the b/m/d records are extractions from the original records sent to Stockholm for statistical purposes.

The services have many of the same records but they also have records not available on the other services. You should make sure the parishes you need and the time periods you need are scanned by a particular service before you join.

This tells about the estate inventories.

http://researchingswedishroots.blogspot.com/2012/03/estate-i...

Judy

The last decade or two of the 19th century and well into the 1950's and 1960's was the golden age of obituaries for "anyone" - but not in the big, national papers or even regional papers. Obituaries and reports from funerals were instead big items in small local papers.
These small local papers have been microfilmed, but not digitized nor indexed. The microfilms are available at s few large university research libraries but also quite often at the local library in question (they often have a "genealogy corner" and/or a "local interest corner").

You can email the library in Ängelholm at biblinfo@engelholm.se

They should have the local papers from way back when, and they may be willing to locate information and email it to you. I doubt they will translate for you, but you can just post it here and I'm sure everyone will help you out with that.

Ingela