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Virgin Island History - get started!
Explore the digitised sources from the Virgin Islands in colonial Danish West Indies. Heres how you get started exploring the Virgin Island History.
Find a person in the Danish West Indies
When you're looking for a person from the Danish West Indies - now the US Virgin Islands - you need different types of records, depending on which populations group the person belonged to.
Get help from an experienced genealogist
At the National Archives' reading rooms volunteer counsellors can help you with your genealogical research.
Records and registries
The Danish National Archives contain many different types of records and registries that could prove to be useful when you are conducting a genealogical research. Find information about some of the basic records.
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.