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Translation

Some help with Nordic language

February 14, 2021 by Kathie Ross

If you are doing genealogy in Scandinavia, it is helpful to have some standard words. Below is a table that will give you the ones that come up most often.

Here are some helpful links for more genealogy words:

Denmark

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Danish_Genealogical_Word_List

https://mathomhouse.typepad.com/bluestocking/danish-genealogy-word-list-a-g.html

https://www.sa.dk/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Genealogical-Dictionary.pdf

Norway

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Norwegian_Genealogical_Word_List

Norwegian – American

Norwegian Genealogy Dictionary

Sweden

http://sites.rootsweb.com/~swewgw/Fact/Dict/facdic02.htm

https://www.familysearch.org/wiki/en/Swedish_Genealogical_Word_List

Filed Under: genealogy, Learning Tagged With: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Translation

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