20 Best Danish Websites

Top 20 Best Websites for Danish Research

By Anita Olsen AG

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1.      http://www.ddd.dda.dk The State of  Denmark Census Index includes 1787, 1801-1834-1840-every five years until 1860 –every ten to 1911. This is a work in progress.

2.      http://www.sa.dk/content/dk/ao-forside-  The State Archives of Denmark- includes digitized parish church books, probates records, and censuses records. This website is not complete but new digitized records are added periodically.  Sealand probates are the first that are being digitized.

3.      http://www.digdag.dk interactive Map of Denmark

4.      http://www.krabsen.dk   Gazetteer of Denmark villages/farm

5.      http://wiki.familysearch.org       Search box but Denmark

6.      https://script.byu.edu/Pages/German/en/kurrent.aspx  Learn how to read and write old German script

7.      https://script.byu.edu/Pages/home.aspx     Learn how to read and write script

8.      http://feefhs.org/guides/German_Gothic.pdf       Familysearch guide to Old Gothic handwriting

9.      http://www.emiarch.dk    Danish Emigration

10.  http://www.findmydanishroots.com     Information on Danish research and culture 

11.  https://familysearch.org/learningcenter/lesson/reading-scandinavian-gothic-handwritten-records-lesson-1-scandinavian-gothic-letters/255         Learn how to do Scandinavian Letters.

12.  https://familysearch.org/learningcenter/home.html   FamilySearch learning center

13.  http://www.behindthename.com/     Scandinavians names

14.  http://www.danishmuseum.org/fhgc/documents/Useful_Websites_for_Gen_Research-email-feb11.pdf- pdf of useful website for Denmark research 

15.  http://www.jspl.com.au/scangen.html  How to.

16.  http://www.sa.dk/content/us/genealogy How to.

17.  http://www.progenealogists.com/denmark/ Great Information and abstractions of some late censuses and school children.  

18.  http://aurelia.dis-danmark.dk/  Great resource for LDS emigration, tracing Mormon Pioneers and so much more.

19.  http://www.politietsregisterblade.dk./index.php?lang=en København resource (use Chrome browser for this website to translate. 

20.  http://www.ancestry.com     Danish Research.

Probate records were not created for every person who died. The probate law of 1683 stated that probates were necessary if a parent died and left children that were not of age (age 25). Often an estate was probated even if the children were of age. 

You always want to look for a Probate for your person(s)

Probates help build family groups and extend family ancestral lines. Some probates can go back further in time then parish records.

https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Denmark_Probate_Records - This websites has general word lists that occur in probates and another important information.

How to tell your ancestor from all the ones with the same name

Tips:

1. Look for farm/village after your ancestral name. 

2. What was his occupation?

3. Who where the witnesses of their children are they the same for all the children?

4.  Are the Censuses age and place the same?

5. Think can this happen? Is this possible?  Does everything make sense?