Engraving cards: Church records
How far back can you go with genealogical research in Norway?
When you start genealogical research, you usually start in the present and work your way backwards in time. Parents, grandparents, great-grandparents and great-great-grandparents can be...
What exactly is a church book?
Church books are documents that contain information about baptisms, confirmations, marriages and deaths in a church. They have been kept by priests in Norway since...
Launches Familia, a new genealogy tool for parts of Sweden
Exciting news hits the genealogy world with the launch of Familia, a new system that replaces the INDIKO tool. This tool, developed by Demografiska databasen (DDB) at the...
These are the Norwegian National Archives' new restrictions
With effect from February 23, 2023, the Norwegian National Archives has made changes to the restrictions on scanning church records in the Digital Archives. The changes are due to the Norwegian National Archives adapting to current legislation for...
Church records from York 1538-1995, now online
More than two million parish register entries from York, England, are now available online. The entries span baptismal records, marriages and burials.The publications that...
2020 was the year when genealogy became much easier
In the spring of 2019, Slekt1 announced that genealogical research would become much easier in 2020, and it has! Now it's just...
FamilySearch continues to transcribe more Swedish family history
This week, FamilySearch has transcribed a total of 1,200,000 records from family history sources around the world (primarily the USA). 27,285 of these come from a Swedish family history...
Denmark with new digitalizations
A number of Danish counter-ministerial books have recently been re-digitized by Ancestry. The books cover a number of parishes and the content can now be studied more closely in...
You can now search Danish church records
Last year, Slekt1 reported that the Danish National Archives had partnered with American Ancestry to have Danish church records digitized and indexed....
Unique Danish church register digitized
Perlestikkerboken, as this church book is also called, contains a number of descriptions of everyday life in Nakskov. Over 1,200 pages, the priest has recorded what happened...
