Danish Genealogy Links
Please feel free to send us additional links to add to this list! This isn't much to begin with but it is a start.
General
- Danish to English Terms - helpful translations of some common words, including genealogical terms.
- Danish State Archives; includes not only information about the archives and their holdings, times, and ordering books, but also guides on reading the old handwriting, genealogical sources, etc.
http://www.sa.dk/default.htm (Danish)
http://www.sa.dk/sa/omarkiverne/english/default.htm (English) - Danish Emigration Archives. Includes online database of Copenhagen passenger lists from 1869-1908
http://www.emiarch.dk/home.php3?l=da (Danish)
http://www.emiarch.dk/home.php3 (English) - Danish Demographic Database. Ongoing project to include index to all of the Danish national census records. Also includes probate index for Thisted, Viborg, Aalborg, and Randers Counties.
http://ddd.dda.dk/ (Danish)
http://www.dda.dk/ (English) - SogneTræf: Knowledge Bank for Danish Genealogy. This is a site where you can work with others interested in the same parish in Denmark: http://www.damsg.dk/
Data
- 1700 Census of Danish Men
- 1728 Census of Copenhagen
- 1730s Census of Schoolchildren
- The Danish State Archives Center (in Danish) has parish and census records online.
Locality Organizations / Publications
- Sammenslutningen af Slægtshistoriske Foreninger [Association of Family History Organizations]. Publish a wonderful publication called,Slægten. http://www.ssf.dk/ (Danish)
- Slægtshistorisk Forening for Storkøbenhavn [Family History Organization for the Greater Copenhagen]. This is organization publishes a wonderful publication called, Slægt og Stavn. http://www.genealogi-kbh.dk/
- Publication, Hvem forsker Hvad [Who researches what]. This is a wonderful publication for coordinating research. Often more than one person is working on the same family. http://www.hvemforskerhvad.dk/ (Danish)
- Slægtshistorisk Forening for Aalborgegnen.
http://www.slaegtshistoriskforeningforaalborgegnen.dk/ (Danish) - Danish Immigrant Archive at Dana College (Blair, Nebraska). They have the records of the Danish Brotherhood, and other good sources for Danish immigrants to the US.
http://www.dana.edu/Library/archive.html
