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Icelandic nation-wide genealogy database - 2007 status updat

Legg inn av Gjest » 04 jan 2007 15:05:30

A few years ago the Icelandic nation-wide genealogy database
http://www.islendingabok.is went online. It includes almost all
available Icelandic genealogy information from the earliest times until
the present - including all currently living Icelanders, with automatic
monthly updates of newborn children and the newly deceased.

Access to this database is free of charge and more than half of the
entire population of the country has by now registered as users of the
database.

Users can look at trees like this:
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k109/Adinos/tree.jpg browse through
their ancestry and relatives or check how they are related to anyone
else in the database. On the average, the trees are fairly complete
for the last 10 generations or so, but become somewhat sparse earlier -
although everyone can trace some branches back to the 9th century.

The original plan was to open the database to people of Icelandic
ancestry, in particular descendants of the Icelanders that went to
Canada and the US in the 1874-1914 period and to provide an English
language interface to the dtabase. Unfortunately, however, due to
recent cutbacks in our funding, those plans have been cancelled.

J. Anderson

Re: Icelandic nation-wide genealogy database - 2007 status u

Legg inn av J. Anderson » 04 jan 2007 15:37:41

<frisk@complex.is> wrote in message
news:1167919530.194331.90670@i15g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...
A few years ago the Icelandic nation-wide genealogy database
http://www.islendingabok.is went online. It includes almost all
available Icelandic genealogy information from the earliest times until
the present - including all currently living Icelanders, with automatic
monthly updates of newborn children and the newly deceased.

Access to this database is free of charge and more than half of the
entire population of the country has by now registered as users of the
database.

Users can look at trees like this:
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k109/Adinos/tree.jpg browse through
their ancestry and relatives or check how they are related to anyone
else in the database. On the average, the trees are fairly complete
for the last 10 generations or so, but become somewhat sparse earlier -
although everyone can trace some branches back to the 9th century.

Interesting, thanks! Btw, have you never regarded the lack of family names
as a handicap? Was Islendingabok a sort of 'compensation' for the problems
involved with a genealogy based on patronyms?

Regards,
John

Gjest

Re: Icelandic nation-wide genealogy database - 2007 status u

Legg inn av Gjest » 04 jan 2007 16:01:10

J. Anderson wrote:
Btw, have you never regarded the lack of family names
as a handicap?

Handicap? Why on earth should it be? It is just as useful to know
only the father's first name as it is to know only his last.

Was Islendingabok a sort of 'compensation' for the problems
involved with a genealogy based on patronyms?

"Compensation"? Sorry, the question just does not make any sense to
me, as I am not really aware of any specific problems related to the
patronymics. The database is ... well... just something that was done
to prove it could be done, I guess.

Besides, if there were any "patronymic problems" it probably would not
have been feasible to build a database of this quality for the entire
country.

Kurt

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Legg inn av Kurt » 04 jan 2007 17:26:35

<frisk@complex.is> wrote in message
news:1167922870.431750.177940@42g2000cwt.googlegroups.com...
J. Anderson wrote:
Btw, have you never regarded the lack of family names
as a handicap?

Handicap? Why on earth should it be? It is just as useful to know
only the father's first name as it is to know only his last.

As a Swede, I totally agree. It is instead a great advantage.

Was Islendingabok a sort of 'compensation' for the problems
involved with a genealogy based on patronyms?

"Compensation"? Sorry, the question just does not make any sense to
me, as I am not really aware of any specific problems related to the
patronymics.

On the contrary, it makes your searches for relatives more accurate.

Kurt F

J. Anderson

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Legg inn av J. Anderson » 04 jan 2007 17:30:26

<frisk@complex.is> wrote in message
news:1167922870.431750.177940@42g2000cwt.googlegroups.com...
J. Anderson wrote:
Btw, have you never regarded the lack of family names
as a handicap?

Handicap? Why on earth should it be? It is just as useful to know
only the father's first name as it is to know only his last.

Hmm... an interesting approach. In countries with family names there are
family associations (Sw. släktförening) for genealogic research and other
manifestations of affinity. The members usually find it fascinating and
somehow valuable that generation after generation has been carrying the same
family name perhaps for centuries.

Gjest

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Legg inn av Gjest » 04 jan 2007 19:05:21

J. Anderson wrote:

Hmm... an interesting approach. In countries with family names there are
family associations (Sw. släktförening) for genealogic research and other
manifestations of affinity. The members usually find it fascinating and
somehow valuable that generation after generation has been carrying the same
family name perhaps for centuries.

Well, I guess that from our perspective such a view would be seen as
somewhat...narrow. It focuses on one particular branch of the family
tree - the direct patrilineal one, but well...from my perspective, all
the other branches are equally important. It is a TREE, after all.

And not having family names does not mean that you cannot have
genealogical work on one family that goes on for generations - the
focus is just a bit different.

The important point about the database is however, that it is pretty
much "complete" - including almost all available genealogy information
for the entire country, and includes every living person in the country
(well, excluding temporary foreign workers and such).

J. Anderson

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Legg inn av J. Anderson » 04 jan 2007 20:42:20

<frisk@complex.is> wrote in message
news:1167933921.052121.292750@s34g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

The important point about the database is however, that it is pretty
much "complete" - including almost all available genealogy information
for the entire country, and includes every living person in the country
(well, excluding temporary foreign workers and such).

Right, and of course the whole concept is fascinating. Wish we would have
something like that in Finland too. We have quite complete KIRKJUBÆKUR and
MANNTÖL going back to the 16 hundreds, so it's 'only' a matter of time and
money.

Hugh Watkins

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Legg inn av Hugh Watkins » 04 jan 2007 22:38:02

J. Anderson wrote:
frisk@complex.is> wrote in message
news:1167919530.194331.90670@i15g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

A few years ago the Icelandic nation-wide genealogy database
http://www.islendingabok.is went online. It includes almost all
available Icelandic genealogy information from the earliest times until
the present - including all currently living Icelanders, with automatic
monthly updates of newborn children and the newly deceased.

Access to this database is free of charge and more than half of the
entire population of the country has by now registered as users of the
database.

Users can look at trees like this:
http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/k109/Adinos/tree.jpg browse through
their ancestry and relatives or check how they are related to anyone
else in the database. On the average, the trees are fairly complete
for the last 10 generations or so, but become somewhat sparse earlier -
although everyone can trace some branches back to the 9th century.


Interesting, thanks! Btw, have you never regarded the lack of family names
as a handicap? Was Islendingabok a sort of 'compensation' for the problems
involved with a genealogy based on patronyms?

silly question
stop trolling

you - the son of some old Anders in the nineteenth century - get on ok
with a patromymic which has in fact lost its meaning

Icelanders have up to date patronymics fresh with every generation

small is beautiful and everyone knows everyone anyway

Hugh W



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Hugh Watkins

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Legg inn av Hugh Watkins » 04 jan 2007 22:40:02

frisk@complex.is wrote:

J. Anderson wrote:


Hmm... an interesting approach. In countries with family names there are
family associations (Sw. släktförening) for genealogic research and other
manifestations of affinity. The members usually find it fascinating and
somehow valuable that generation after generation has been carrying the same
family name perhaps for centuries.


Well, I guess that from our perspective such a view would be seen as
somewhat...narrow. It focuses on one particular branch of the family
tree - the direct patrilineal one, but well...from my perspective, all
the other branches are equally important. It is a TREE, after all.

And not having family names does not mean that you cannot have
genealogical work on one family that goes on for generations - the
focus is just a bit different.

The important point about the database is however, that it is pretty
much "complete" - including almost all available genealogy information
for the entire country, and includes every living person in the country
(well, excluding temporary foreign workers and such << unless they marry a local girl.


how much genealogy will get added for them?

Hugh W
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Beta blogger
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Stein R

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Legg inn av Stein R » 05 jan 2007 02:16:48

"J. Anderson" <andersons6@inbox.lv> wrote in
news:uMcnh.19391$0w4.5463@reader1.news.saunalahti.fi:

frisk@complex.is> wrote in message
news:1167933921.052121.292750@s34g2000cwa.googlegroups.com...

The important point about the database is however, that it is pretty
much "complete" - including almost all available genealogy
information for the entire country, and includes every living person
in the country (well, excluding temporary foreign workers and such).

Right, and of course the whole concept is fascinating. Wish we would
have something like that in Finland too. We have quite complete
KIRKJUBÆKUR and MANNTÖL going back to the 16 hundreds, so it's 'only'
a matter of time and money.

Sweden has their church books (husforhørsbøker mm) online. Pay service,
though - http://www.genline.se. I paid a membership for three months to
research
the ancestry of a brother-in-law of Swedish-American ancestry.

Those swedes were darned well organized. You can follow people year by
year, and they were good at adding cross references - when people left a
farm there would be a "see emigrated no xxx". On the emigrated pages
they would note "emigrated from farm no xxx to parish yyy", and in the
immigration list for parish yyy it would say "came from parish zzz on
dd.mm.yy, see new home on farm no aaa". Or words to that effect. You can
quite easily get spoiled by that kind of luxury.

The Norwegian church books are also being digitized and put on the net.
For free. See http://www.digitalarkivet.no

Smile,
Stein

Donald L. Hendrix

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Legg inn av Donald L. Hendrix » 13 jan 2007 23:52:36

So, if I understand your post, this means that people like me who responded
to the questionaire sent out when the plan was to allow acces to descendants
of those who had left Iceland for North America between 18974 and 1914 are
not able to access this database. Is this true? If so, this would be a
real shame.

<

Hugh Watkins

Re: Icelandic nation-wide genealogy database - 2007 status u

Legg inn av Hugh Watkins » 14 jan 2007 12:41:02

Donald L. Hendrix wrote:

So, if I understand your post, this means that people like me who responded
to the questionaire sent out when the plan was to allow acces to descendants
of those who had left Iceland for North America between 18974 and 1914 are
not able to access this database. Is this true? If so, this would be a
real shame.

if they can read Icelandic they could manage
or they could join a genealogical society in Iceland and ask a friend

Ættfræðifélagið - The Genealogy Society

Þetta er heimasíða Ættfræðifélagsins - The Genealogy Society of Iceland
- Den Genealogiske Forening i Island. the site appears to be down

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ge ... gle+Search

.. there is no concept of "the family name" - no Smiths or Joneses - but
on the other hand the system generates a quite obsessive interest in
genealogy.

and there are ethical doubts about the genetic database and privacy
but in a villlage nothing i private

Hugh W


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Gjest

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Legg inn av Gjest » 14 jan 2007 18:54:06

Donald L. Hendrix wrote:
So, if I understand your post, this means that people like me who responded
to the questionaire sent out when the plan was to allow acces to descendants
of those who had left Iceland for North America between 18974 and 1914 are
not able to access this database. Is this true? If so, this would be a
real shame.

Questionaire? We never sent out anything like that. I know there was
some
kind of a questionaire sent out a few years ago, but we had nothing to
do with
that - I think the main sponsor of that was an airline company that
wanted to
build a list of people of Icelandic ancestry, so they could market
trips to Iceland
to that group.

There was a plan to open the database to descendants of Icelandic
emigrants,
but as I said, those plans had to be cancelled due to cuts in our
funding.

Lars Erik Bryld

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Legg inn av Lars Erik Bryld » 16 jan 2007 19:10:40

I have used the Íslendingabók database with much joy (my mother is
Icelandic), but I have been somewhat hampered by the fact that the
database have very strict privacy settings for viewing other than
direct ancestors until you pass the 1700-mark. Sometimes I'd have
liked to check some facts I had from the online 1816-census or the
1845-census, which I have access to in book form. Is there a
legislative motivation for such strict privacy settings 300 years back
in time? I'd really like if the pricacy settings were suspended for
persons born earlier than 150 years ago instead.

--
Hafðu það sem best
Lars Erik Bryld

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