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Social Life and Customs

Effective family research requires some understanding of the society in which your ancestor lived. Your research steps, and the records you search, are going to vary according to the time and place your ancestor lived. Learning about your ancestor’s everyday life, social structure, religious practices, customs, and traditions will enhance your research abilities. This information is especially helpful if you choose to write your family's history. Here are some good topics to consider:

Publications

Topic	Time period	Resource	Locations Covered
Social life and customs		Thorsøe, Alex. Af familien Ankers album: danske og norske interiører: kulturhistorisk frihaandstegning. Copenhagen, Denmark: Axel Andersens Forlag, 1902	Denmark
Social life and customs		David C. Ottesen. At home in rural Denmark. [Salt Lake City, Utah]: Corporation of the President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1980	Denmark
Social life and customs	Post WWII	Dansk Kulturhistorisk Museumsforening. Boligform og livsstil. [Denmark] : Dansk Kulturhistorisk Museumsforening, 1989	Denmark
Social life and customs	From Middle Ages	Dansk Kulturhistorisk Museumsforening. Bordskik og borddækning. [Denmark]: Dansk Kulturhistorisk Museumsforening, 1977	Denmark
Social life and customs		Sune Åkerman, Hans Chr. Johansen and David Gaunt. Chance and change: social and economic studies in historical demography in the Baltic area. Salt Lake City, Utah: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1986	Denmark
Social life and customs	1870-1964	redaktion Axel Steensberg. Dagligliv i danmark. Copenhagen, Denmark: Nyt Nordisk Forlag Arnold Busck, 1982	Denmark
Social life and customs	1600-1939	Johansen, Hans Christian. Danish population history: 1600-1939. Odense, Denmark: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2002	Denmark
Social life and customs		Roger Nielsen. Denmark. Copenhagen, Denmark: Egmont H. Petersen, 1939	Denmark
Social life and customs		Ellekilde, Hans. Evald Tang Kristensens . Copenhagen, Denmark: Det Schonbergske Forlag, 1923	Denmark
Social life and customs	1561-1633	Kaae, Bue. Familieliv på "Liljebjerget" i Ribe omkring 1600. Esbjerg, Denmark: Sydjysk Universitetsforlag, 1983	Denmark
Family life		David Gaunt. Familjeliv i Norden. [S.l.]: Gidlunds, 1983	Denmark
Social life and customs		Palle Ove Christiansen. Fire landsbyer: en etnologisk rapport om nutidige livsformer. [Copenhagen, Denmark]: Landsbykommissionen, 1980	Denmark
Social history and folk culture		Dansk Kulturhistorisk Museumsforening. Det forsømte århundrede. [Denmark]: Dansk Kulturhistorisk Museumsforening, 1976	Denmark
Scoial life	1816-1892	Johannes Werner. Gedalia og hans forfædre : livs- og tidsskildringer.Copenhagen, Denmark : H. Hirschsprungs Forlag, 1933	Denmark
Social life and customs	1600-1800	Fridlev Skrubbeltrang. Husmand og inderste: studier over Sjællandske landboforhold i perioden 1660-1800. Copenhagen, Denmark: Selskabet af Kilder til Dansk Historie, 1977	Denmark
Social life and customs		Dansk Kulturhistorisk Museumsforening. Den ideologiske husflid : husfliden i andelstiden. [Denmark]: Dansk Kulturhistorisk Museumsforening, 1983	Denmark
Social life and customs	1850-1990	Ning de Coninck-Smith, Bengt Sandin and Ellen Schrumpf. Industrious children: work and childhood in the Nordic countries 1850-1990. Odense, Denmark: Odense University Press, 1997	Denmark
Social life and customs	17th Century	Gustav Bang. Kirkebogsstudier: bidrag til dansk befolkningsstatistik og kulturhistorie i det 17. aarhundrede. Copenhagen, Denmark: Selskabet af Kilder til Dansk Historie, 1976	Denmark
Social life and customs		Dansk Kulturhistorisk Museumsforening. Leg og legetøj. [Denmark]: Dansk Kulturhistorisk Museumsforening, 1978	Denmark
Social life and customs	1750-1980	Palle Ove Christiansen. A manorial world: lord, peasants and cultural distinctions on a Danish estate, 1750-1980. Oslo, Norway: Scandinavian University Press, 1996	Denmark
Social life and customs		C.A. Thyregod. Mosgroede Minder: Skildringer efter Tingbøger og Dagbøger. Copenhagen, Denmark: Emil Flensborg	Denmark
Culture history		Charles Loring Brace. The Norse-Folk: or, a visit to the homes of Norway and Sweden. New York, New York: Charles Scribner, 1857	Denmark
Social life and customs		Ingeborg S. MacHaffie and Margaret A. Nielsen. Of Danish ways. Minneapolis, Minnesota: Dillon Press, 1976	Denmark
Social life and customs		Dansk Kulturhistorisk Museumsforening. Sommerglæder. [Denmark]: Dansk Kulturhistorisk Museumsforening, 1985	Denmark
Cultural history	1700-1940	Neil Kent. The soul of the north: a social, architectural and cultural history of the Nordic countries, 1700-1940.London, England : Reaktion Books Ltd, 2001	Denmark
Social life and customs		Dansk Kulturhistorisk Museumsforening. Sparetider. [Denmark]: Dansk Kulturhistorisk Museumsforening, 1975	Denmark
Social life and customs		F. Dyrlund. Tatere og natmandsfolk i Danmark: betragtede med hensyn til samfundsforholdene i det hele. Copenhagen, Denmark: Selskabet af Kilder til Dansk Historie, 1974	Denmark
Social life and customs		Elo Harfot. Trævlerødder, alternativ slægtshistorie: en samling af ideer, der viser hvorledes slægtsforskerne kan bruge lokal-og kulturhistorien, så de tørre navne og årstal bliver til en levende slægtshistorie. Copenhagen, Denmark : Dansk Historisk Håndbogsforlag 1984	Denmark
Social life and customs		Den danske historiske Forening ; ved Henry Bruun. Dansk historisk bibliografi : 1913-1942. Copenhagen, Denmark: Rosenkilde og Bagger, 1977	Denmark
Social life and customs		Antropologi. Tidsskriftet . Copenhagen, Denmark : Foreningen Stofskifte, 1990	Denmark
Social life and customs		Mark H Salmon. Denmark. London : Kuperard, 2019	Denmark
Family		Erik Manniche. The family in Denmark. Uppsala: Family Study Center, 1989	Denmark
Social life and customs		Kuperard. Denmark. London: Kuperard, 1996	Denmark
Social life and customs		Patrick Kingsley. How to be Danish: a journey to the cultural heart of Denmark. New York: Marble Arch Press, 2014	Denmark

Customs

• Naming Customs

Everyday Life

• Infant Mortality
• Work in Rural Denmark
• Work in the Cities of Denmark

Social Structure

• Adscription of 1733 (Stavnsbåndet)
• Copyhold / Copyholder
• Drudgery
• Vornedskab
• Scandinavian Folklore

Traditions

The following is a good book describing Danish social life and customs:

• MacHaffie, Ingeborg S., and Margaret A. Nielsen. Of Danish Ways. Minneapolis: Dillion Press, 1976. (FHL 948.9 E6m.)

Family History Library (FHL); now called, FamilySearch Library (FSL)