Swipe card: Denmark
237,000 index cards with Danish maritime history scanned
Danish History Online has done a fantastic job of scanning 237,000 old charts containing exciting information about Danish seafaring. This means that...
Do you have a criminal Dane in your family tree?
In Denmark, volunteers have transcribed records from workhouses, prisons, and arrests in Denmark between 1752 and 1933. In total, there are currently over 50,000...
Digitizing Ole Rostock's card index
Coats of arms, also known as heraldic shields, were used in the Middle Ages to identify knights in battle. Later on, they were used to represent families/families...
The genealogists' library changes name
Denmark has taken a significant step forward in the digital world. The country's most comprehensive digitization project in non-fiction has recently undergone an important transformation. Previously...
Danish police can now use genetic genealogy in their investigations
In response to public demand, the Danish government has now decided to introduce genetic genealogy as part of the tools available to the police...
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...
Registers the army archive library
Slægtsforskernes Bibliotek, which is run by the association Danske Slægtsforskere, has received around 300 shelf meters of books from the Army Archive Library.The books are provided by the...
Denmark becomes a leader in historical life course data
Researchers from the University of Copenhagen, the Danish National Archives and the Copenhagen City Archives are compiling historical life histories for all Danes from 1787 to 1901. The starting point is 64 million entries...
The 1901 census from Denmark has been transcribed
Unlike in Norway, it is somewhat random which censuses are made searchable online and not least how complete they are....
Missing Heirs season 6
The Danish edition of Unknown Heir recently premiered season 6. Episode 1 is titled "The Unknown Sister" and you can watch...
