What does the Danish word brandstyr mean?
What does the Danish word aftægt mean?
My theme reveal post for the blogging from A to Z April Challenge 2022.
Information about godparents cannot only help identify ancestors via cluster research, but it can provide information about them which would otherwise not be found in public records.
Manorial land records have great value when researching Danish peasants from the 15th to the 18th centuries.
Maps can provide interesting information about the area where your ancestors lived.
I have four main reasons for branching out my family tree and researching collateral lines.
I am curious about several pieces of information relating to my great-great-grandfather Jacob Andersson Söderlund, who was sixty years old at the 1906 census of Denmark, which is my last trace of him.
The photo of the Kottal family is my favorite photo because it sheds a bit of light on a mystery regarding another photo.
One of my favorite genealogy finds is the death record for my great-great-grandmother. I had researched the paternal branch of my ancestors for several years before I found it. It was not at all hard to find, so why had I not found it earlier?
About 1997, I searched the Yahoo! email directory for my surname Kottal. To my surprise, there were hundreds of hits and not only from Denmark.
A house history can reveal whether the house or farm, where your Danish ancestors lived, still exists, and at which address the place lies today.