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Guide to Denmark ancestry, family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Country Information[edit | edit source]
Denmark is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe bordering Sweden, Norway, and Germany. Danish is the official language with Faroese, Greenlandic, and German being recognized languages.
Denmark Map[edit | edit source]
The map below shows county boundaries from about 1793 to 1970.
Counties[edit | edit source]
The standard which FamilySearch uses is as follows: Town, Sogn (Parish), Herred (District), Amt (County), Denmark. Click on a county listed below to go to the Wiki article for more information on that county.
For more information on the county-level jurisdictions in Denmark over time, see Denmark Counties.
- Bornholm
- Copenhagen City
- Frederiksborg
- Haderslev
- Hjørring
- Holbæk
- København
- Maribo
- Odense
- Præstø
- Randers
- Ribe
- Ringkøbing
- Roskilde (Part of Copenhagen City since 1808)
- Skanderborg
- Sorø
- Svendborg
- Sønderborg
- Thisted
- Tønder
- Vejle
- Viborg
- Åbenrå
- Ålborg
- Århus
- Faroe Islands
Parishes[edit | edit source]
Knowing which parish your ancestors came from is vital to Danish research. The parish listing has been divided into subsections due to the size of each file. Each list is alphabetically organized according to the modern Danish standard: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, Æ, Ø, Å.
- Parish List Denmark A - G
- Parish List Denmark H - N
- Parish List Denmark O - U
- Parish List Denmark V - Å