For Swedish roots researchers, the hits keep coming: Records have been popping up online at an impressive pace. First came Genline <www.genline.com>, which put 15 million images of Swedish church records online (see the June 2005 Family Tree Magazine). Now the Arkion Web site, known for its Swedish census records, has been folded into SVAR (Svensk Arkivinformation), a branch of the Swedish National Archives that handles the archives' microfilm. The result is SVAR Riksarkivet <www.svar.ra.se>, a Web site that integrates Arkion's databases with searches of SVAR's resources, creating a clearinghouse for birth, marriage and death records, census data, church records and more.

Like Genline and the original Arkion, the combo site requires a subscription to access most of its databases, and pricey remains the operative word. An annual subscription costs about $150 in US funds. But SVAR also offers cheaper options, including 10 visits of three hours each ($38)and a simple single-visit pass for three consecutive hours ($6.50), which doesn't even require messing with a username or password.