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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...

Will digitize 250,000 charts with Danish maritime history

Slægtsforskernes Bibliotek and M/S Museet for Søfart have a plan to convert 250,000 index cards containing Danish maritime history into digital format. These ...

The Bovrup card index is now available as a searchable database

When the Second World War ended in Denmark, there was a strong reaction to the fact that former members of the Nazi party were not prosecuted. Instead, they could...

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...

Search the card index of chief librarian John Møller

Between 1965 and 1973, the Danish chief librarian John Møller compiled a comprehensive index of family names that occurred over at least two generations in...

It is now easier to find relatives in Danish books

In Norway, we are quite spoiled when it comes to being able to search directly in the content of large parts of Norwegian literature. This...

Will digitize tens of thousands of genealogy books

For many years, Fredriksberg Library in Denmark has held a large collection of genealogical books, but a year and a half ago it was agreed to transfer...

Creates a cause of death register

The lists are based on information from the Danish Health Data Authority, which in turn received the information about the dead from the doctors who performed a post-mortem and filled out the...

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...