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Danish records... starter tips
« on: Wednesday 02 March 11 20:07 GMT (UK) »
HI,
Can SKS advise on how Danish records are organised and how they can be accessed?

Thank you
Stenson, anywhere any dates

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Re: Danish records... starter tips
« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 02 March 11 23:14 GMT (UK) »
General info:
http://www3.sympatico.ca/colin.swift/info.htm

Quite a lot of scanned parish records and censuses online (not name indexed, you will need to know location here):
http://www.sa.dk/ao/
Transcribed censuses (not full coverage) here:
http://www.ddd.dda.dk/kiplink_en.htm
Danish emigration archives here:
http://www.emiarch.dk/home.php3
Census information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk

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Re: Danish records... starter tips
« Reply #2 on: Thursday 03 March 11 06:13 GMT (UK) »
These pages from the FamilySearch wiki will give you some general information about searching in Denmark

https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Denmark
https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Category:Denmark

Bob
Any UK Census Data included in this post is Crown Copyright (see: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk)

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Re: Danish records... starter tips
« Reply #3 on: Friday 04 March 11 13:36 GMT (UK) »
Thank you very much to the both of you. I'll start looking through these links and see how I get on
Stenson, anywhere any dates