Swipe card: Digitization

The Genealogists' Library recently scanned its 5000th book.

Slægtsforskernes Bibliotek has not been idle in recent weeks. The library, which is run by Danske Slægtsforskere, has a large collection of family history books published...

A number of church records from Boston are now being scanned and indexed.

In Boston, an enormous digitization effort is underway to make visible those who, at the turn of the last century, had recently arrived in the United States. Around 10...

Historical population register doubled the number of registrations in one year

On November 9, 2015, the Historical Population Register opened its website, and since then the number of searchable people has increased from 1,500 to 6 million.Historical...

New digital version of Sømna bygdebok launched

In the 1980s and 1990s, the municipality of Sømna in Nordland had four volumes of farm and family history written, and now the municipality has...

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...

Danske Slægtsforskere is now going to digitize a large number of books

If you have family in Denmark, the DIS-Danmark library can be a place to look for relatives and family histories. They are now collaborating with Copydan,...