s dropped Arfwid became Arvid
Hv or Hw became V Hvena became Vena
Hwällinge became Vellinge
For this gazetteer, it will be necessary to know the following Swedish word terms and their English equivalents:
Sn (Socken) Parish
Hd (Härad) Court District
On page 270 of Volume 3, the following citation is found:
Nybble i Örebro län och hd, Vintrosa sn. By. 3 mtl lyda under Svartå i Qvistbro sn.
This entry translates in English as:
Nybble, in Örebro county and court district, Vintrosa parish. Village. 3 mantals (acres) taxed under Svartå in Kvistbro parish.
Geografiskt-Statistiskt Handlexikon Öfver Sverige is available at the Family History Library with the call number of FHL 948.5 E5r.
This gazetteer is available on line through Svar Riksarkivet. A subscription membership is required. Access is available at the Family History Library and the Family History Center system. The gazetteer is found under the Shortcuts - Databases and is called " Rosenberg -- Geographic dictionary of Sweden. The website for Svar is: http://svar.ra.se/
This online gazetteer is provided by the Språkrådet (the Institute of Language and Peoples Heritage). It's a great reference to find Swedish place names, whether old and new, residential or landscape. It is a free website. Web address: http://www2.sofi.se/SOFIU/topo1951/_cdweb/index.htm
Svenska Orter, Atlas över Sverige med Ortbeskrivning
(Volume 1, parts 2 & 3, Volume 2, parts 1 & 2, Volume 3, parts 2 & 3)
This gazetteer allows the researcher to identify the names of the farms and villages in each Swedish parish. The six books are divided into three volumes with two parts per volume. The first book or part is for place names beginning with letter
A-K. The second book or part is for place names beginning with letter L-Ö. (This set is found at the Family History Library with the call number of 948.5 E5so, Volume 1, parts 2 & 3, Volume 2, parts 1 & 2, Volume 3, parts 2 & 3.)
Under the listing for each parish, the researcher will find in italized letters the terms Herrgård (large farms), Byar (villages) and hemman (farms). Under each of these three headings will be listed in alphabetical sequence the names of all the large farms, villages and farms in this parish. This listing enables the researcher to record the correct spelling for each of these place names and to see the choices for places when attempting to interpret place names when using the microfilmed church records.
Because the parishes found in this gazetteer are in an order as if one was moving in Sweden from south to north, the following list of counties and the volume in which the county is located may prove helpful.
Volume 1 counties: (The southern part of the country as far north as an east-westerly line just south of Göteborg)
Blekinge, Gotland (part), Halland, Jönköping (part), Kalmar (part), Kristianstad,
Kronoberg, Malmöhus, Älvsborg (part)
Volume 2 counties: (The area immediately to the north of Volume One and as far north as just south of the capital Stockholm)
Gotland (part), Göteborg och Bohus, Jönköping (part), Kalmar (part),
Skaraborg, Södermanland (part), Örebro (part), Östergötland, Värmland (part)
Volume 3 counties: (The area just north of this line as far north as just south of the city of Gävle)
Gävleborg (part), Kopparberg (part), Stockholm, Södermanland (part), Uppsala,
Värmland (part), Västmanland (part), Örebro (part)
This gazetteer does not list parishes found in northern Kopparberg county, central and northern Gävleborg county, and all of Jämtland, Norrbotten, Västerbotten, and Västernorrland counties. However, 2/3 of the Swedish population lives in the southern ½ of the country. Because of the high concentration of the larger percentage of the total population residing in the southern ½ of Sweden, Svenska Orter is a very useful gazetteer to the researcher.
On page 1470 of Volume 3, Part 3 is found the listing for the parish (socken) of Vintrosa, Örebro county, Sweden. The listing shows the names of the smaller places found within the boundaries of Vintrosa parish. So that you can better understand the arrangement of pl