SOURCES and GUIDES for Danish Genealogical Research
01. Danish National Archives - Overview (in English)
Online Services Overview (in English)
Parish Registers, Censuses, Probate Records, and Emigration Records - free online Search.
Search form instructions are in English.
02. Danish Demographic Database - free online Search for various historical sources. Information
on name, age, occupation, marital status, etc. (instructions in English).
Probate Index: Thisted, Viborg, Aalborg, & Randers Counties (instructions in English)
03. The Danish Emigration archives - select English in drop down at top of page - free online Search of Emigrants listings originally
compiled by the Danish police. 394,000 of the Danes who emigrated in the years 1869 to 1908 "can be found in the Emigration Protocols, which have been prepared by the Emigration Archives in collaboration with Aalborg City Archives on the basis of the Copenhagen Police Emigration Protocols. This means that the database contains the vast majority of emigrants who have purchased an overseas ticket from a Danish travel agent, but not those who have bought a ticket abroad or have not bought a ticket (eg seamen)."
04. Local History Collection at the Aarhus Public Libraries, and their available services. - Select English choice in right side of orange menu bar
More Links coming soon from our members.
Note that for websites written in Danish, you can use Google Translate to translate the text of the page into English (text in images will not be
automatically translated - you will need to type in such text manually).
Also, when using Google Translate, note the small typewriter icon - click on this typewriter to select Danish letters not found in the English keyboard, to be included in the text you are typing as input for Google translation.
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