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Danish Genealogy: Birth and Baptism Record Pitfall

Danish church records have a certain structure, but sometimes the information is arranged differently in some records. That can lead to mistakes in the research. To help you steer clear of those mistakes, I want to highlight the most common pitfall when reading a Danish birth and baptism record.

by Lene Dræby Kottal, Certified Genealogist®

Baptism Record for an Illegitimate Child Born in 1781 in Ubberud, Denmark

A large part of genealogy is to document relationships, particularly parent-child relationships. We want to identify the right parents, and that requires correlation of the information about the persons.

by Lene Dræby Kottal, Certified Genealogist®

Denmark Censuses: Same Search but Different Results from Different Indexes

Most genealogists probably know that we can get different results when searching for the same person in different indexes of the same records. What does that mean to our research?

by Lene Dræby Kottal, Certified Genealogist®

Migration Records Kept by the Church of Denmark

By examining migration records you can follow your Danish ancestor's movements from parish to parish.

by Lene Dræby Kottal, Certified Genealogist®

Searching the FamilySearch Index of Denmark Censuses

Sometimes indexes do not provide the results we are looking for, but that does not necessarily mean that the ancestor is not in the index.

by Lene Dræby Kottal

Biographies in a Danish 18th Century Church Book

The parish clerk for Egtved Parish, Denmark, wrote short biographies of deceased parishioners in the church book from 1767-1789.

by Lene Dræby Kottal

Link-Lives: A New Database for Denmark Genealogy

New free database for Denmark Genealogy with "life-courses and family relations of almost everyone [!!!] who lived in Denmark from 1787 until ... 1968."

by Lene Dræby Kottal