Mesa Arizona Regional Family History
Center
The Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-Day Saints
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Notes on Dansk Demografisk Database |
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When you
enter the site, click on the “English flag” for English. You will see four boxes, the red has the
census records, the blue the emigration records, the orange has immigrant
records, and the green has other sources, including a few probate
records.
I.
Census
Records
Click on “Red Census Records”
A. See
page with the links below.
2. Advanced search for individuals
3.
What's
in the database? 21/6 2007
4.
Search in census records from
St. Croix
6.
Links
B. No.
1. & 2. above. The data entry places
are self evident if you are in English.
To make sure you keep working in English, use the Green back arrow at
the top of the browser page to move back rather than the “back” or “new search”
close to the text. You must write the
names using the Danish spelling. If you
are looking for Søren, you won't find it by typing Soren. Jorgen is Jørgen. There are alternate (alt) key sequences to make these letters in
windows by holding down the Alt key, just to the left of the space bar, add
typing in the number sequences shown below.
1.
ø 0248 Ø 0216
2.
æ 0230 Æ 0198
3.
å 0229 Å 0197
these also have an alternate Danish
spelling aa & Aa
which does not require the use of the Alt
key sequence.
C. You need to know the County (Amt) and Parish
(Sogn). If you don't know these, but
know the name of the town and can find it on a map such as the Geodætisk
Institut Kort Over Danmark (Map of
Denmark), then you can go to link 5. and locate the county and parish by
looking first at the over all map then clicking on the County and viewing the
Parishes.
D.
No. 4.
above. The island of St. Croix is in
the Virgin Islands in the Caribbean sea.
Columbus landed there.
E. No. 6. above.
There are many links to Norwegian, Swedish, Danish and English web
sites. You need to be good in the
language to use these, although I'm sure many of them have some English
sections.
II.
Emigration
Records
Clicking on the Emigration records
box takes you to an input screen.
However, there is much good information to be obtained by clicking on
the tabs at the top of the page.
III. Probate Index This is a searchable index of 4 counties. There is good information provided by Gary Horlacher that finished part of the project started by the Church.