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Local sources
Bornholm
- An early Danish-language legal book for the Skåne countries (Skåne, Halland , Blekinge and Bornholm)
- (1202; Danish facsimile)
Copenhagen
- Images of 19th-century Copenhagen
- Digitized by the Danish Royal Library.
- (Photographs & stereographs)
- Released by the Niels Bohr Archive.
- The meeting in Copenhagen between Niels Bohr and Werner Heisenberg is considered a defining moment in the development of the atomic bomb.
- Link to documents is found at the bottom of the page
- (1941-1962; facsimiles, transcriptions and translations)
Esrum
- Online manuscript containing the 259 documents from the Esrum cloister archives at the end of the fifteenth century.
Greenland
- Maps of the North Atlantic from "Vinland" to Greenland, Iceland, Norway and Denmark.
- Digitized by the Danish Royal Library.
- (1570; facsimiles)
Haderslev
- Correspondence between Christian IV and Landgräfin Amalie
- Compiled by Acta Pacis Westphalicae
- (1643 German transcription with German interface)
Holme
- Historical images and texts from Højbjerg og Holme in Jutland.
- (Mostly twentieth century; facsimiles)
Odense
- Historical images from Odense.
- (19th and 20th centuries; photographs and facsimiles)
Ringsted
- Historical images from Ringsted in West Sjælland.
- (Facsimiles)
Tilst
- Historical maps and images from Tilst in Jutland.
- (1761-2000; facsimiles)
Viborg
- (1681-1810; Danish transcription)
Regional Sources
Aarhus
- Various searchable databases and documents from Aarhus.
- Includes citizenship, marriage and census data.
- (1750-present; transcriptions and facsimiles
Øresund
- A cooperative Danish-Swedish project covering sources from both sides of the "Sound" (Øresund)
- Pictures, postcards, maps, letters, guides to archival sources.
- (1200-1913; facsimiles and guides)
Cumulative Sources
- (Facsimiles).
- Links to related genealogical sources.
- (English interface)
Family History
- Danish family history records.
- (1789-1931; Danish)
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