Swipe card: Digitization
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...
Digitized 2.4 million rolls of microfilm
Although microfilm is no longer what most genealogists use in their search for relatives, it was for many years. The work is still ongoing...
All Swedish magazines, newspapers, and textbooks are now to be digitized
Through a joint project between the National Library of Sweden and the five university libraries in Lund, Gothenburg, Stockholm, Uppsala and Umeå, a number of Swedish...
January: New searchable places in the 1920 census
December 1 was a special day for genealogists. One hundred years after the 1920 census in Norway was carried out, the deadline expired, and the...
Will digitize 600 years of printed publications
The entire Swedish print production from the 15th century to the present day will now be made available digitally. That's the aim of a declaration of intent recently...
Identifies victims from German concentration camps
Efforts are now underway to identify everyone who was sent to the horrific Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp. The concentration camp was located in Oświecim in Poland, and 9 of...
Got 60,000% more than they asked for!
The National Archives is doing it, the National Library is doing it, and I'm sure you and I are doing it too - digitization is in vogue like never before. A Hong Kong-based...
Archive Digital makes available births from Vesterbotten 1800-1840
If you have family from Vesterbotten County in Sweden, you can now search for your ancestors who were born in Vesterbotten between...
Irish birth, death, and marriage certificates – available online for free
Do you have Irish ancestry and need to look up information from the late 1800s and early 1900s? Then this is the news for you.
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Old newspapers are also being digitized in Sweden
Newspapers are a source of family history that many people overlook. However, they are a gold mine that can serve you family stories on a silver platter.
The National Library of Sweden, Sweden's...
