danish genealogical research

Danish Genealogy Research

Everyone wants a family crest!

• Official Danish coats of arms are specially protected by Danish law. In general they may only be used in official duties by offices of state and municipalities. The unlawful use of an official coat of arms or other official insignia is a criminal offence under section 132 of the Danish penal code.

• The National Heraldic Consultant is an officer under the Danish National Archive. His job is to ensure that official coats of arms adhere to the rules of heraldry and to approve municipal coats of arms. He has no jurisdiction over private coats of arms.

• Private coats of arms are not regulated and need no official sanction. Private coats of arms can be used as trademarks and thus be protected from other commercial use. Specific renditions of coats of arms are protected by copyright law.

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• But not everyone has them! Nobility and the rich stand a better chance of being already documented.

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• What are some other places to look?

• Censuses, databases, parish registers, asking online...

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• What about names?

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A result from a probate (will) index online.

From the Familysearch web site

Samples of entries from the FHC catalog

Samples of entries from the FHC catalog, pt. 2

https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Danish_Word_List

http://www.lklundin.dk/gedcomp/english.php

• This is the web site for the GEDCOMP program.

http://www.genealogi.dk/

• This is the web site that you eventually end up on, which clicking through from the WorldGenWeb to Central Europe, Scandanavia and then Denmark.

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vigtige oplysninger! (done by Google Translate)

• National Archives Film Ning Center since 2002 digitized church books in order to make them available on the Internet. The work is made possible thanks to special appropriations from the Ministry of Culture.

• At the State Archives website is a guide to church records read more.

• All church records older than 1892 was in October 2006 posted on www.arkivalieroneline.dk. These church records are scanned by the micro card in black / white quality.

How to see these

• Leaf Ning program is made in Java, and to view the scanned pages, you must first install Java VM runtime from Sun (see instructions). We recommend that Windows XP is updated to Service Pack 2 from Microsoft.

• For use of scrolling program, look under menu item under the Help Guide or inside the leaf test program.

• Church records after 1891 were by 2008 laid out to the extent that the books printed before 1925-1930. Then, the interpretation of church books printed before 1950, commenced.

• Church records after 1891 are scanned directly from the original books. The scans are in grayscale.

• Many of the original church books are marked by past poor housing conditions, poor print quality like. It is not possible to correct these conditions, which therefore also reflected in the digitized church records on the Internet.

Can’t forget this!

• There is NO “one best place” to start or to find everything that you seek. Here are some suggestions for places to start looking.

From Rootsweb.com - WorldConnect

How to contact the town

And the Danish Sisterhood has a nice place to start:

http://www.danishsisterhood.com/DanishHTML/default2.asp