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Manorial Records

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Copyhold Records for Tenant Ancestors

Copyhold records can provide evidence of parent-child relationships, because a leased farm or house was often passed on to a son. This article outlines the contents of copyhold letters (fæstebreve) and copyhold registers (fæsteprotokoller) and teaches you how to determine the manor for your area of interest.

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Determining the Estate Name

You might be familiar with the collection of Denmark Estate Records 1436-1964 at FamilySearch. It is a great collection of imaged records. However, you must know the name of the estate to use it. So how do you determine which estate owned the peasant land where your Danish ancestors lived?

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Digitized Corvée Work Records

Danish tenant farmers had to do corvée work for the land owner. Beginning in year 1800 land owners had to record the work done by each farmer. A lot of these records have been kept.

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