This document provides information about Danish genealogy research. It discusses official coats of arms which are protected by Danish law and can only be used by government offices. It also mentions that private coats of arms are not regulated and can be used as trademarks. The document notes that nobility and the rich are more likely to already be documented, and suggests looking at censuses, parish registers, and asking online to find genealogical information. It provides some example websites useful for Danish genealogy research.

1. Danish Genealogy Research

2. Everyone wants a family crest!
• Official Danish coats of arms are specially protected by Danish law.
In general they may only be used in official duties by offices of state
and municipalities. The unlawful use of an official coat of arms or
other official insignia is a criminal offence under section 132 of the
Danish penal code.
• The National Heraldic Consultant is an officer under the Danish
National Archive. His job is to ensure that official coats of arms
adhere to the rules of heraldry and to approve municipal coats of
arms. He has no jurisdiction over private coats of arms.
• Private coats of arms are not regulated and need no official sanction.
Private coats of arms can be used as trademarks and thus be protected
from other commercial use. Specific renditions of coats of arms are
protected by copyright law.

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• But not everyone has them! Nobility and
the rich stand a better chance of being
already documented.
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• What are some other places to look?
• Censuses, databases, parish registers,
asking online...
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• What about names?
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15. A result from a probate (will) index online.

16. From the Familysearch web site

17. Samples of entries from the FHC catalog

18. Samples of entries from the FHC catalog, pt. 2

20. https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Danish_Word_List

23. http://www.lklundin.dk/gedcomp/english.php
• This is the web site for the GEDCOMP
program.

26. http://www.genealogi.dk/
• This is the web site that you eventually end
up on, which clicking through from the
WorldGenWeb to Central Europe,
Scandanavia and then Denmark.

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30. vigtige oplysninger! (done by Google Translate)
• National Archives Film Ning Center since
2002 digitized church books in order to make
them available on the Internet. The work is
made possible thanks to special appropriations
from the Ministry of Culture.
• At the State Archives website is a guide to
church records read more.
• All church records older than 1892 was in
October 2006 posted on
www.arkivalieroneline.dk. These church
records are scanned by the micro card in black
/ white quality.

31. How to see these
• Leaf Ning program is made in Java, and to view
the scanned pages, you must first install Java VM
runtime from Sun (see instructions). We
recommend that Windows XP is updated to
Service Pack 2 from Microsoft.
• For use of scrolling program, look under menu
item under the Help Guide or inside the leaf test
program.

32. • Church records after 1891 were by 2008 laid out
to the extent that the books printed before 1925-
1930. Then, the interpretation of church books
printed before 1950, commenced.
• Church records after 1891 are scanned directly
from the original books. The scans are in
grayscale.
• Many of the original church books are marked by
past poor housing conditions, poor print quality
like. It is not possible to correct these conditions,
which therefore also reflected in the digitized
church records on the Internet.

34. Can’t forget this!

35. • There is NO “one best place” to start or to
find everything that you seek. Here are
some suggestions for places to start
looking.

41. From Rootsweb.com -
WorldConnect

42. How to contact the town

43. And the Danish Sisterhood has a
nice place to start:
http://www.danishsisterhood.com/Da
nishHTML/default2.asp