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| Danish Interest Sites: Church and Life – A publication of the Danish interest conference of the ELCA (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America). It has its roots in Kirke og Folk, which began appearing in 1911 - www.churchandlife.org Royal Danish Embassy in Washington, D.C. - www.ambwashington.um.dk/en KJAN radio station in Atlantic that is carrying a weekly radio program about the museum: "Across Oceans, Across Time." Click on the museum's logo when you go to this site to hear a 5 minute recording of our weekly program. - www.kjan.com/community/contest/contest.htm# Elverhøj Museum of History & Art in Solvang, California - www.elverhoj.org Nordic Heritage Museum in Seattle, Washington - www.nordicmuseum.org Nordic Club - www.nordicclub.org Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum in Decorah, Iowa - vesterheim.org Dana College, Blair, Nebraska - www.dana.edu Grand View College, Des Moines, Iowa - www.gvc.edu Linking Danes Everywhere - www.danelink.com/locations News from Denmark, a Magazine for Danes - www.nytfradanmark.dk Danish Language and Culture - www.lysator.liu.se/nordic/scn/faq324.html A Tribute To Victor Borge - www.kor.dk/borge/borge.htm The Danish Windmill www.danishwindmill.com Danish Countryside Vines & Wines www.DanishCountrysideVinesAndWines.com A Local Bakery in Elk Horn www.danishbakeshoppe.com Elk Horn Foodtown www.elkhornfoodtown.com Danish Sisterhood of America www.danishsisterhood.com Danebo-Danish American Fellowship www.daf-mn.org Organizations: Rebild National Park Society holds a Rebild Celebrations each July 4th - www.rebildfesten.dk Northwest Danish Foundation with locations in Seattle, Washington and Portland, Oregon - www.northwestdanishfoundation.org Danish American Athletic Club in Medinah, Illinois - www.daac.org Danish Heritage Preservation Society of Danevang, Texas - www.dkhouston.org/danim/danevang.html Daneville Heritage Association of Viborg, South Dakota - www.viborgdevelopment.com/heritage/index2.htm Green Valley Danes, Arizona - members.cox.net/gvdanesdk Genealogical Sites: A Home page for LDS Church databases, including the 1880 US census, 1881 Canadian and UK censuses, Family History Library catalog, general databases, and Personal Ancestral File (PAF) software - www.familysearch.org Bureau of Land Management: federal land records from 1787 on, including homestead grants - www.glorecords.blm.gov CyndisList: a gateway site to thousands of genealogical webpages (arranged by topic and locality) – www.cyndislist.com Social Security Death Index (RootsWeb) - http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi GenWeb project: provides links to locality sites by state and county - www.usgenweb.net A general free query and gateway site - www.rootsweb.com National Archives genealogy resources home page - www.archives.gov/research_room/genealogy Searchable online death indexes and related records - www.deathindexes.com Searchable online military indexes and records - www.militaryindexes.com Civil War Soldiers and Sailors index - www.itd.nps.gov/cwss Useful site for finding people in the US by name, locality, phone number, postal or email address - www.searchbug.com Danish-American Genealogical Sites: Danish Archive North East (DANE) home page, concentrating on settlements in the northeastern US - www.rootsweb.com/~njdane Danebo Cultural Center in Minneapolis-St. Paul - http://danebo.org The National Danish-American Genealogical Society, a branch of the MN Genealogical Society - www.danishgenealogy.org Over 2,000 Scandinavian obituaries from western WI - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wisobits Main page for databases related to Danes living in the US. Homepage of Lisa Petersen, genealogy columnist for The Danish Pioneer newspaper - www.kinquest.com Danish-Interest Genealogical Sites: Note: Modern Danish has three letters not found in English, which must be used when searching most Danish websites. Keystrokes for making these letters: Alt + 0198 = Æ Alt + 0216 = Ø Alt + 0197 = Å Alt + 0230 = æ Alt + 0248 = ø Alt + 0229 = å ________________________________________ An alphabetical dictionary of Danish genealogical vocabulary with English translations and written samples of the words in Gothic script (in English) -www.sa.dk/lak/brugearkivet/famhist/examples/dict.htm Regional Archives for Eastern Denmark (Sjælland, Lolland-Falster & Bornholm): a useful ‘getting started’ site plus links to special topics, such as Danish names (in English) - www.sa.dk/lak/brugearkivet/famhist A useful site for non-beginners interested in Danish research, including Bornholm and Slesvig-Holsten (in English) - www.horlacher.org/denmark Another good entry site for Danish genealogy (in English) - www.genealogyindex.dk Danish Data Archives: gateway to Danish emigration records, online Danish census records, and probate records for 4 counties, as well as (in Danish) other materials. Click on Union Jack for English version - http://ddd.dda.dk A listing of genealogical mailing and discussion lists related to Denmark - www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail_country-den.html Danish WorldWide GenWeb page (in Danish) - www.dis-danmark.dk/index.asp Click on ‘Vejviser’ for map of current Danish counties; addresses and contact information for local, regional, provincial and special archives (in Danish; requires Adobe Reader) - www.lokalarkiver.dk/vejviser/index.htm Danish State Archives homepage. Click on ‘English’ to change languages - www.sa.dk Danish calendars, with feast days, from 1500 to 2099 - www.rmadsen.dk/kal A collection of beautiful non-copyrighted images of Danish churches (in Danish, but easy to navigate) - http://dis-danmark.dk/kirkeimg/oss.asp An expanding collection of online images of original church records and searchable census records. No indexes, but accessible by parish, year, and type of record (in Danish; requires (free) registration and password - www.arkivalieronline.dk Aero (Ærø, Svendborg Co.) genealogy page (English) - http://home13.inet.tele.dk/ibcung Bornholm Society for Family & Local History homepage - www.progenealogists.com/denmark/bornholm Lolland-Falster genealogical database - http://tom-stryhn.com Census, marriage & citizenship data for City of Aarhus (Århus) - www.folketimidten.dk Search site for old photographs of Århus (in Danish) - www.aarhusbilleder.dk Danish national private archives database. Click on Union Jack for English version - www.danpa.dk Danish Association of Family Farms. Includes database of more than 11,000 farms (in Danish; click on English name of association to change language; not as complete in English) - www.slaegtsgaardsforeningen.dk Danish Genealogical Society homepage (in English) - www.genealogi.dk/index_us.htm Index to 110 years of Personalhistorisk tidskrift [The Danish Magazine of Biography & Genealogy] (in Danish) - www.genealogi.dk/110.htm Online telephone directory for Denmark - www.infobel.com/denmark Emigration and Immigration: New York City immigrants from 1830-1892 - www.castlegarden.org Ellis Island passenger lists, 1892 to mid-1920s - www.ellisislandrecords.org Entry records for Halifax, one of Canada’s main ports - www.pier21.ca Passenger lists compiled by the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild - www.immigrantships.net Scandinavian voyage accounts, 1852-58 (primarily Mormon, but also of historical interest) - www.xmission.com/~nelsonb/voyage_desc.htm Entry point for a variety of passenger lists and related information - www.rootsweb.com/~ote/ships/texas-ships-a.htm Danish Emigration Archives (in English): records of emigrants who purchased tickets from Danish emigration agents from 1868 to 1908 - www.emiarch.dk/search.php3 Vejle emigration lists from 1878 to 1887 (in English). Over 4000 names not in the Danish Emigration Archives - www.aalborg.dk/borgerportal/applikationer/udvandrer/SoegpostEngelsk.asp Major Genealogical Libraries & Archives: Family History Library, Salt Lake City - www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/FHLC/frameset_fhlc.asp National Archives home page - www.archives.gov National Archives genealogy resources - www.archives.gov/research_room/genealogy Allen County Public Library (Ft. Wayne IN) - www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy/index.html Mid-Continent Public Library (Independence MO) - www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/branch/ge Wisconsin Historical Society (Madison) - www.wisconsinhistory.org/libraryarchives Nebraska State Historical Society (Lincoln) - www.nebraskahistory.org Minnesota Historical Society (St. Paul) - www.mnhs.org/library/index.html State Historical Society of Iowa (Des Moines) - www.iowahistory.org The Newberry Library (Chicago IL) - www.newberry.org/newberryhome.html New England Historic Genealogical society (Boston MA) - www.newenglandancestors.org Slesvig-Holsten (Schleswig-Holstein) Sites: The four north Slesvig counties of Haderslev, Tønder, Sønderborg and Aabenraa, along with southern Slesvig and the duchy of Holsten, were ceded to Germany after the Dano-Prussian War of 1864. A plebiscite held in 1920 returned these four counties to Denmark. A good site with lots information, references, including volunteers who will do lookups (in English) www.genealogienetz.de/reg/SCN/sh-e.html German WorldWide GenWeb page (in English) - www.rootsweb.com/~wggerman Data from S-H census registers from 1869-1881 (ongoing project) www.akvz.de/e107_plugins/akvzdb_menu/akvzdb.php The American/Schleswig-Holstein Heritage Society (Davenport IA). German orientation, but with data on many Danes and "blended families" - www.ashhs.org Map Sources: U.S. source for Scandinavian & British Isles maps - showcase.netins.net/web/travelgenie Put in an address and find its location, as well as compare present-day and historical maps of a given area - kmswww3.kms.dk/kortpaanettet _________________________________________________________________ These webpages are free sites. Please report any broken links to librarian@danishmuseum.org. |
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