Danish Local and Regional History Sources

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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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