Collect as much information as you can from immediate family, relative, friends of the family and
any brothers or sisters in the Canada or USA.
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Here are some sources that might be helpful in
your search for ancestors.
Death/burial, marriage and birth/baptismal records
Obituaries and tombstone inscriptions
Newspaper
articles announcing anniversaries, birthdays, etc.
Funeral home records
Church records (especially Lutheran)
Census information
Town and County
histories in the area of settlement
Danish Brotherhood Records (available at the Danish Immigrant Archive at Dana College in Blair, NB)
Land records,
including homestead files
Military records
Online sources of genealogical sites
Local LDS Church research centers
Naturalization or
citizenship petitions
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Be aware that many Danish immigrants
Anglicized their names and their original names may be quite different. You will need to have some idea
of what the names were likely to have been in Denmark before searching Danish records.
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Once you have gathered
all of the information that you can from family documents and relatives in the home country, it should be possible to form
a picture of when your ancestors came to this country, where they settled and likely where they came from.
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