The Danish State Archives provides a number of Internet services that make it possible to search for your ancestors online.
The Danish Demographic Database (DDD) is the obvious choice if you wish to search for your ancestors online via the State Archives.
The Danish Demographic Database provides a number of different sources in which to search.
To obtain positive results you will need some basic information to be used as search criteria. Obviously, results will appear only for people whose information has thus far been entered into the database; however, records are continually being added to the databases, primarily with help from volunteers.
The Danish State Archives Filming Centre digitises Parish Registers and Population Censuses in order to make them Internet accessible. The digitisation project is accomplished primarily through scanning microfiches and microfilms.
The Parish Registers and Population Censuses will be displayed as pictures of the original records. These pictures demonstrate that many records have been negatively affected by poor storage conditions, poor ink quality and general wear-and-tear - a state of affairs that is unfortunately irremediable. No registers have been compiled in which it is possible to conduct a search by name, occupation, address etc.
Almost all Danish Parish Registers completed prior to 1950 have already been launched. Within the coming years Parish Registers completed before 1960 will be uploaded to the internet database.
Daisy is the online catalogue of the State Archives.
In Daisy you can search for information about the creators of our Archive series (authorities, companies, private individuals, etc.) as well as searching through the Archives series itself. An increasing portion of the documents held by the Danish State Archives are recorded in Daisy, but although Daisy permits a search of the records, it does not at this time enable a search to be made within the content of those records.
