Background & introduction -- Name, residence, & occupation column -- Birth column -- Moving in & Moving out columns -- Marriage column -- Smallpox column -- Examination columns -- Communion columns -- Military column -- Remarks column -- Death column -- Other. Parents ; Christening ; Sex ; Occupation/marital status -- Parish list -- Swedish English glossary -- Bibliography

The authors provide a detailed examination of the structure and the content of the Swedish church record husförhörslängd (plural: husförhörslängder), that can be translated into English as "household examination record," or "clerical survey record" and sometimes in Swedish called husförhörsrulla (household examination roll), or husförhörsbok (household examination book, or just household book), also abbreviated HFL in Sweden and abbreviated HHE in the United States