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Denmark

The Lutheran Church is still the state church, and all vital records still need to be registered with the church. Vaccinations for smallpox are also in the church records.

• Amt-Herred-Sogn Portal to information about parishes in Denmark.
   
• Christiansen, P.N. The Danish Settlement at Nasonville, Wood County, Wisconsin. 1961.
  
  
• Cyndi's List - Denmark.
  
  
• Danish Demographic Database.  Search for people in the indexes of various Census, Emigrant, Probate, and Immigrant databases.
   
• Danish Emigration Archives. The emigration lists compiled by the Copenhagen police from 1869 to 1940. The Archives holds a large collection of private letters, manuscripts, biographies, newspaper clippings, photographs, portraits. etc.
   
• Danish Parish Registers and Censuses.
   
• Danish State Archives (Statens Arkiver). Site is in Danish.
  
  
• Danish State Archives -- Parish Registers and Population Censuses on the Internet. Are displayed as pictures of the original records.
   
• Digitalarkivet (Digital Archives). The site has 652,165 images from parish registers, and transcribed data from a dozen Norwegian censuses.
  
  
• DIS-Danmark  Is an association of genealogical researchers which uses data processing and computers as a tool in the genealogical research.
  
  
• Esbjerg Byhistoriske Arkiv. This archive on the west coast of Jutland has three collections of photographs that can be found under Links and then Billeddatabaser.
   
• Facts About Genealogical Research in Denmark.
  
  
• FamilySearch -- Denmark Events and Time Periods.
   
• FamilySearch -- Denmark Websites.
  
  
• Finding Records of Your Ancestors, Part A: Denmark, 1834 to 1900. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has created a new book of interest to anyone researching ancestry in Denmark
  
• Folket i midten (Denmark, censuses)
  
• Garnie Odensebilleder. Odense City Museum has a large collection of old photographs, drawings and more from New Jersey.
  
• Kirker i Danmark. Collection of photographs of all the churches in Denmark.
  
  
• Mathiasen, Ronnie Bille, compiler.  2 Bille slaegter fra Frejlev pa Lolland = 2 Bille Family's [i.e. families] from the Village Frejlev on the Island of Lollan in Denmark. 2004.
  
  
• Smith, Frank and Finn A. Thomsen. Genealogical Guidebook & Atlas of Denmark. Bountiful, Utah: Thomsen's Genealogical Center, 1998.
  
  
• Thomsen, Finn A. The Beginner's Guide to Danish Genealogical Research. Bountiful, Utah: Thomsen's Genealogical Center, 1998.