Guides & tools

How to search the collections

With ‘Search the Collections’, you can search across the Danish National Archives’ collections and systems. Learn how to search and get tips for finding archival records, transcripts, and digitally created data in the National Archives’ collections.

Genealogy – how to get started

To conduct research about any particular person it is necessary to start with some basic information: their full name; the date and place of their birth; marriage, death or an exact address in a year during which a population census in Denmark took place.

Online records

In Arkivalieronline you will find all of the Danish National Archives’ digitized documents (mainly danish). Note that only about 2% of the collections are digitized.