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Welcome to the Iceland Page! FamilySearch Wiki is a community website dedicated to helping people throughout the world learn how to find their ancestors. Through the Iceland page you can learn how to find, use, and analyze Icelandic records of genealogical value. The content is variously targeted to beginners, intermediate, and expert researchers. Please visit the [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Category:Help help page] to learn more about using the site. The Iceland Page is a work in progress, your contributions and [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/FamilySearch_Wiki:Feedback feedback] are essential!  
 
Welcome to the Iceland Page! FamilySearch Wiki is a community website dedicated to helping people throughout the world learn how to find their ancestors. Through the Iceland page you can learn how to find, use, and analyze Icelandic records of genealogical value. The content is variously targeted to beginners, intermediate, and expert researchers. Please visit the [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/Category:Help help page] to learn more about using the site. The Iceland Page is a work in progress, your contributions and [https://wiki.familysearch.org/en/FamilySearch_Wiki:Feedback feedback] are essential!  
  
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Revision as of 14:56, 11 January 2012

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Contents

Getting started with Iceland research

Welcome to the Iceland Page! FamilySearch Wiki is a community website dedicated to helping people throughout the world learn how to find their ancestors. Through the Iceland page you can learn how to find, use, and analyze Icelandic records of genealogical value. The content is variously targeted to beginners, intermediate, and expert researchers. Please visit the help page to learn more about using the site. The Iceland Page is a work in progress, your contributions and feedback are essential!

See the tutorials at FamilySearch Learning Center on Scandinavian Research and on Reading Scandinavian Gothic Handwritten Records.

Jurisdictions

(Your text or images here)

Research Tools

Iceland Vital Records Index (FamilySearch Historical Records)

The Research Forums have been closed. For a limited time the Nordic Countries Research forum will be available in read-only mode.










Strategies

Introduction to Icelandic Search Strategies

Help Wanted

In order to make this wiki a better research tool, we need your help! Many tasks need to be done. You can help by:



Featured Content

Thanks to Hálfdan Helgason, 1816 Iceland census has searchable PDF files with headers in English.

Also see the Iceland GenWeb at Íslenski Ættfræðivefurinn.

Did you know?

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Beginners Corner
News and Events
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Get Help Reading Records
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Topics
  • Archives and Libraries
  • Biographies
  • Cemeteries
  • Census
  • Church Records
  • Civil Registration
  • Court Records
  • Directories
  • Emigration and immigration
  • Genealogies
  • Geography
  • Geography (Historical)
  • Handwriting
  • History
  • Jurisdictions
  • Land and Property
  • Language
  • Military
  • Names, Personal
  • Newspapers
  • Nobility
  • Occupations
  • Periodicals
  • Place Names
  • Probate Records
  • Schools
  • Social Life and Customs
  • Societies
  • Taxation
  • Vital Records
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Articles that Need Editing

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  • Article 2
  • Article 3

New Articles Needed

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Did You Know?

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Useful Websites

Iceland Genealogy Links

Family Tree Magazine: Icelandic Toolkit

Finding Your Ancestors 1835-1900 Resource Guide

Gothic Handwriting Resource Guide

Iceland GenWeb

Icelandic Association of Utah

Icelandic Genealogical Word List

Icelandic-Spanish Fork-Vigdis Johnson

Libweb - Directory of Libraries in Iceland

The Emigration from Iceland to North America

Íslendingabók

Þjóðskjalasafn Íslands

Related Pages

Norway

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Sweden

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Denmark

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Finland

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Scandinavia

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