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The number of Icelanders in the spring of 1703 totaled
50,366 individuals.
Searching the 1870 census by name, returns a list,
selecting a person will then show the Farm/Household.
The information returned includes their Name,
Gender, Age, Marriage, Class, Farm, Parish, and
County.
Timarit.is
http://timarit.is/lang=4—Free site in English
They have a large section of digitized publications.
Morgunblaðið is a newspaper that has online copies
from 1913 to 2000.
You can select date range month, date, and page
number. A DjVu plugin is suggested but the pages
can be viewed without it but there is no navigation
or zooming tools.
Morgunblaðið—2 November 1913 page 2
Visit us at
www.everton.com
www.halfdan.is
www.halfdan.is—Free site
The Emigration from Iceland
to North America
http://www.halfdan.is/vestur/vestur.htm—in English
Information and advice is given on Icelandic genealogy
research along with a variety of links.
1816 Census
http://www.halfdan.is/vestur/census.htm—Index
The 1816 census of Iceland is available in PDF format,
selectable by location. It contains the Name, Age, Parish,
Home, Place of Birth, Status, and Occupation.
These PDF files can be saved. Use the binoculars icon
to search through a document for a name.
Summary
The Scandinavian countries all have wonderful
collections of church records. However, access to
them is different in each country. Census records,
if they are available, are used more to locate a person
and/or their family in order to find where they
lived and where they were born in order to be able
to locate the various parish records. The volunteer
projects that are connecting photographs of churches
and farms to the various records really add a nice
new dimension to research and are a good example
of what can be done. Sweden will be joining Norway
in this effort.
Posting queries on both Surname and Location
sites might help you get in touch with other researchers
who have already obtained copies of civil, church,
or family records and might be willing to share.
Until the Danish census record indexes are complete,
I guess I will be spending quite of bit of my
“free time” Søg i kirkebøger and Søg i folketælling
looking for my Bockmans and Neuhauses at the Danish
Archives.
Jeffrey A. Bockman is a genealogical
lecturer and writer from Naperville,
Illinois. He presented at the 2008
OGS, 2007 BYU, 2006 NGS,
2003, 2001, and 1998 FGS
Conferences. He is active in society
and conference management. He
was a frequent feature writer
for Heritage Quest Magazine.
He is the author of the book
Give Your Family A Gift That Money Can’t Buy
/ Record & Preserve Your Family’s History.
His website is at www.JeffBockman.com.
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