The collection is based on the Swedish National Archives“ "Registered at the seamen's home«. The collection is published with license PDM and can be downloaded in its entirety in CSV or Excel format. The collection can also be searched in the Swedish National Archives website.
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About those registered at Swedish seamen's homes 1700-1900
Here you can search through all persons who were registered at the seamen's homes in either Härnösand, Gamlakarleby, Västervik, Hudiksvall, Söderhamn, Gävle, Karlskrona, Oskarshamn, Visby, and/or Örnsköldsvik.
One of the tasks of the house was to establish a support activity where retired and injured seafarers, as well as their surviving relatives and children, could receive financial assistance. The houses established registers with information about the seafarers and the merchant ships they signed on to or left.
Other duties of a seamen's home were to act as an employment agency and the perhaps somewhat more tangible task of maintaining discipline among sailors and skippers. Every Swedish merchant seaman would be registered at a seamen's home, normally in the district where he was registered in the church register.
