SOURCES and GUIDES for Icelandic Genealogical Research

01. The Emigration from Iceland to North America - Newsletter Index is an outstanding website with topics such as: Why? Where from? and Where to?, as well as Great Information and Links for doing Icelandic genealogical research or researching Icelandic settlers in the U.S. and Canada - they even have links to some published books listing settlers!

02. The Icelandic Research portal at FamilySearch
This page has good introductory information about Icelandic research. While still under development, they already have an Iceland County List with a listing of Icelandic County Names and the abbreviations commonly used for them. Typical Icelandic given names, the Icelandic alphabet, and an Iceland Word List, including number names, is helpful. An Iceland Parish Listing, showing Parish (Sogn) Names and the County they were in, is a helpful feature. The Census Headings page is not yet operational, but it will be of great benefit, and even now (Feb 2012), it is useful to see what census years might be available to research (not all available/extant for all areas?).

03. A good List of Links for specific types of Iceland Research is included in the right column in the above FamilySearch Wiki section for Iceland.

04. Icelandic Church Records (incomplete records set) Webpage at Family Search (linked from the above Icelandic Research portal) with information about Icelandic Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths and Burials, Confirmations, and Arrivals and Removals Not all records are available online - see bottom of page which shows what records are available online with links to the record sets. (Much of the rest of the information is so generic as to be unhelpful - see other sites. -pw Webmaster)

05. The Iceland Genealogy Forum at Genealogy.com has an inactive forum/bulletin board for communicating with others doing Icelandic genealogy (last entries about 2014, but helpful for researching families....).

06. National Archives of Iceland Click on British flag at top of page for English language version

07. Iceland.is - The Official Gateway to Iceland. Beautiful modern culture, historical tidbits, and news website for Iceland.
(Check out their darling article on Icelandic Christmas traditions, including the 13 Christmas Trolls.)

08. Iceland Magazine including News, Culture (under Features tab), Travel, and Local Issues:

The above online magazine has Articles about Icelandic Culture and History (with links to the articles), including some cute Christmas traditions, as well as interesting articles concerning geography and both human and natural history. They have articles about place names, unusual historical insights, and even links to Game of Thrones filming locations.

More Links from our members Coming Soon!

Note that for websites written in Icelandic, 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 Swedish letters not found in the Icelandic keyboard, to be included in the text you are typing as input for Google translation.