Scandinavian Genealogical Websites.

[MarkCDodd]

SCANDINAVIA
The Scandinavian countries of Finland, Norway, Sweden and Denmark have been closely linked for much of their history. Until
the 20th century the majority of their very comprehensive genealogical records were kept by the Lutheran Church. Anyone
looking for Scandinavian ancestors online will find lots of data, but beware "“ until the middle of the 19th century most of the
Scandinavian countries were still using the patronymic naming system where Jon Eriksson"™s son Thomas would be called
Thomas Johnsson and his daughter Maria Johnsson (or even Maria Johnsdottir). While some of the sites for individual
countries have English versions, many do not so you will need to use an online translator.

ONLINE TRANSLATOR "“ http://translate.google.co.uk

There"™s a lot of useful advice about Scandinavian research on the US-based ProGenealogists website.

http://www.progenealogists.com/namingpatterns.htm#Scandinavia

Danish research

http://www.progenealogists.com/denmark

Swedish research
http://www.progenealogists.com/sweden

The Scandinavian countries are also well-represented on GenWeb:
Finland: http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~finwgw/index.html
Norway: http://rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wgnorway
Sweden: http://rootsweb.ancestry.com/~swewgw

The Finnish Institute of Migration was founded in 1974 to collect and store material in relation to migrants and to carry out research into migration. Currently there are almost a million
entries covering passport records (1890-1922), passenger records of the Finnish Steamship Company (1892-1950) and information about Finns who died abroad 1918-1950). Searching is free but to view the results you need to pay an annual fee.

http://www.migrationinstitute.fi/emreg/index_e.php

The National Archives Service of Finland has an introductory page in English.

http://www.arkisto.fi/en/etusivu

The rest of the site is in Finnish so you will need to use an online translator to read their digital archives at http://www.arkisto.fi/fi/alneistot

It also has a digital archive online at http://digi.narc.fi/digi

Once again, only the front page has an English version.http://digi.kansalliskirjasto.fi/index.html?language=en

The National Library of Finland has digitised all the newspapers published in Finland from 1771 to 1900 and put them online.

The Genealogical Society of Finland has a Finnish language website here.

http://www.genealogia.fi

Finland"™s Family History Association has an English language page here.

http://www.digiarkisto.org/sshy/index_eng.htm

The Norwegian National Archives"™ Digital Archives service contains digitised versions of parish registers, probate records, land and property records and census records for 1801, 1865, 1875 and 1900.

http://digitalarkivet.no/cgi-win/Webfront.exe?slag=vis&tekst=nybyrjar.htm&spraak=e

DIS-Norway is Norway"™s largest genealogical society. As well as links
to regional branches, the website is also home to the Gravestones in Norway project which aims to photograph and transcribe
all Norwegian monumental inscriptions and church burial registers. At the moment it has more than two million records and
over 900,000 photographs.

http://www.disnorge.no/cms/en/eng/about-dis-norge

Sweden and Denmark site will be listed soon...

[snoopysue]

For Denmark

http://www.slaegtogdata.dk/
This is the Danish DIS.
I've used DIS Denmark a fair bit, and you don't have to be a paying member to use their forum. They've helped me with deciphering church records (I mean I didn't guess that the date of vacination and the doctor were recorded on the marriage entry)!

The site I've used the most is:
http://www.sa.dk

It has the church records and the census records - up to about 1940/ 1950
It doesn't have a searchable database, so you have to know where and when to look. The county's and parishes have altered the bounderies over the years too. All the images are scanned in, and can sometimes be difficult to read, but there is so much info on them, burial records quite often have the names of the parents for example.
There are also the confirmation records, which can help in getting further back. Church records seem to be very acurate, as the parents had to prove they were married, spellings are generally consistent etc; whereas the census's are less so but do quite often have useful info, this info needs to taken with a pinch of salt (like the British ones).

This next one is a searchable database, but it is very limited and I rarely find what I'm looking for here:
http://www.ddd.dda.dk/

I can help in deceiphering and translation if help is needed!

[genealogy12]

If you are interested in the region of Blekinge in the south-east of Sweden, then the site of Blekinge Släktforskarförening may be of interest to you. Among many interesting things they offer online access to their stonecutter database and to their navy sailor database, containing thousands of people and their relatives from the region. Unfortunately it is all in Swedish, but is useful nevertheless.

[linell]

I am looking for Lamberg Elkastoona Sweden Any help would be much appreciated, thankyou.

[snoopysue]

I am looking for Lamberg Elkastoona Sweden Any help would be much appreciated, thankyou.

Do you mean Eskilstuna Sweden? It's a town west of Stockholm.

[linell]

LOL Sue, yes that's it, any Lambergs anywhere

Best Wishes from Lin.

[snoopysue]

LOL Sue, yes that's it, any Lambergs anywhere

Best Wishes from Lin.

I take it that's a surname?

[linell]

Yeah Sue, a surname, cheers from Lin.