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UN archives published on Digital Archives

This year marks the 75th anniversary of Trygve Lie becoming the first Secretary-General of the United Nations. To mark the occasion, the National Archives has made sources from his time in...

Arkivverket introduces free digitization of Sami cultural heritage

The Sami Archive turns 25 years old in 2020. The Swedish National Archives and the Sami Archive will mark the occasion by introducing free digitization of Sami cultural heritage.As a gift...

All-digital genealogy day

This year's Genealogy Day will be held on Saturday, October 31. The day has previously been marked to varying degrees at different locations across the country, this year it will be...

The date has now been set for the reopening of Arkivverket's reading rooms

After months of Corona-closed reading rooms, the Swedish National Archives has finally set a date for when it is considered safe to reopen the reading rooms.Archive-hungry historians, students,...

This is how long the reading rooms at Arkivverket will be closed

Earlier this year, when the authorities realized that Norges had to be shut down due to infection control, the National Archives also closed down. Like other agencies with public premises, the...

41% of the 1920 census has now been transcribed

On December 1, the 1920 census will be released on the Digital Archive, just as the 1910 census was almost 10 years ago. So far, however, only 41% has been transcribed.I...

Recommends centralizing the National Archives

The Center Party reacts strongly to the fact that the National Archives in a report has as one of the proposals for restructuring, to reduce the number of state archives from eight to two.I...

The National Archives in collaboration with MyHeritage

Recently, the Norwegian censuses for 1891, 1900 and 1910 became available on MyHeritage. The censuses add 6.8 million new documents related to Norwegian family history to MyHeritage.The...