Engraving card: Danmarks riksarkiv
How to find Danish death certificates
Death certificates are issued by the authorities to confirm and register a person's death. For genealogists, they can be useful in relation to both the verification of...
The Danish National Archives has digitized 31,000 ship logs
The ship journals cover an area of Danish seafaring from 1650 until 1993, and also Denmark-Norway seafaring until 1814. Digitization provides...
Listen to the music that was played on Tordenskjold's ship
In September 2023, the Danish National Archives uncovered a remarkable discovery. During an extensive review of thousands of old weather observations from several centuries of sailing,...
Artificial intelligence reads church records in seconds
The Danish National Archives is leading the Multigenerational Register project, which aims to identify family relationships for all persons born in Denmark from 1920 to the present. Now the project is taking...
The Danes set a new milestone, but still far behind Norway
Danish Family Search (DFS) now has around 10 million transcriptions of names from Danish church records. If we include transcriptions of other family history sources...
Mapping family trees using artificial intelligence
Thanks to DKK 38 million in funding from the Novo Nordisk Foundation, the Danish National Archives are now developing a new multigenerational register of Danish family relationships since...
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....
Free course in Gothic handwriting from the Danish National Archives
If you are researching your family history further back than 1850, there is a good chance that you will come across documents written in Gothic script. Now you can...
