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Guide to parish registers

The parish registers are described with an abbreviation for each church record type:

• F: Births (Fødte)
• K: Confirmations (Konfirmerede)
• V: Marriages (Viede)
• D: Deaths (Døde)
• A: Emigration lists of those who moved away, 1814-1875 (Afgangslister)
• T: Immigration lists of those who moved in, 1814-1875 (Tilgangslister)
• J: Cross-reference lists, 1814-1875 (Jævnførelseslister)

Read more about parish registers and see the guide on how to use them.

1892-c. 1960: parts of the parish registers are blurred

For reasons of data protection, the Danish National Archives has chosen to blur the remark fields in the birth records of parish registers from 1892 onwards. You can apply for access to the blurred fields in a parish register.

Apply for access to a blurred field in a parish register (Application form in Danish).

1814-1892: duplicate parish registers in color and segmented

The digitizations were produced by Ancestry and have been 'segmented' by gender and church record type, with Deaths first and Marriages last.

Please note that written permission from Ancestry is required if you wish to download more than just a few images. Contact the Danish National Archives at:

mail@rigsarkivet.dk

if you have questions regarding the use of this collection of color images.

Parish registers before 1814

The parish registers on Arkivalieronline cover the period before 1814. A new color digitization is underway and will be completed in 2026.