Posted in Danish Census, Google Earth, Research Tips, tagged Bornholm, Danish Census, Patronymics, Research Tips on 20 December 2008 | Leave a Comment »
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One branch of my ancestry lived on Bornholm Island in the Baltic Sea for hundreds of years. The island is located east of Denmark, north of Poland and South of Sweden, covers 227 square miles and the language is a dialect of Danish called “bornhlmsk”.
Because of the small land size and [...]
Posted in Danish Census, Danish Records, Research Tips, tagged Danish Census, Danish Records on 24 February 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Staying with the Danish theme of an earlier note, it isn’t difficult to read Danish Census records if you understand certain key words. A number of years ago, a good Samaritan researcher helped me read the census records associated with my ancestors. She sent me a document that I’ve used in [...]
Posted in Alta Vista, Clusty, Danish Census, FreeBMD, Legacy on 26 April 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Here are the family history website links for the day.
Source examples from Legacy Family Tree
Search Engines: In my experience, both AltaVista and Clusty seem to find the most relevant family history links.
While you are looking for Primary Sources in England, be sure to check out FreeBMD…. [...]
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