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In other languages: KalaallisutGuide to Greenland ancestry, family history and genealogy: parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
Information
Greenland is an island autonomous country within the Danish Realm in the Atlantic Ocean whose nearest neighbors are Canada and Iceland. The official language is Greenlandic (Kalaallisut).[1]
Greenland Map
Parishes
Church records were kept on the parish level were used to register births, deaths, and marriages Greenland. Beginning in 1924, civil registration of births, marriages, and deaths began to be kept on a national level also.
References
- ↑ Wikipedia contributors, “Greenland,” in ‘’Wikipedia: the Free Encyclopedia,’’ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenland, accessed 29 April 2016.