Viewed Through the Lens:
Primary Sources
Primary sources are important sources of information about individuals. Usually they are contemporary documents that relate to events in lives of the people named in them.
The museum and the Genealogy Center possess a varied collection of both official and private documents that describe the lives of immigrants in Denmark and America from the cradle to the grave.
Similar documents may still be in the hands of family members who wish to know what they are and how to use them to further their understanding of the life and experiences of their immigrant ancestors.
Here we show a number of these documents and explain what they are and the various ways they can be used in genealogical research.
Thorkild Svendsen
Johannes Frederiksen
Jens Verner & Otto Knudsen
Jørgen Jensen
Jørgen Juncker-Jensen
Knud Westergaard
Kristen Nielsen
Kurt Klarskov Larsen
Lars Hannibal
Niels Skov
Ole Daniel Jensen
Peder Rasmussen Holtze
Ralf Hoifeldt
Rasmus Hansen
S. D. Rodholm
Sigrid Bro
Ted Kofoed
Tenus and Clayton Christensen
The Danish Brethren-in-Arms
Edwin Hays
Anders "Andrew" Jensen
Anders Overgaard and Jens P. Jensen
Anders Sand
Andreas Karstensen
Carl Peter Johnson
Chris Petersen
Christian Febiger
Dynes Peder Pedersen
Edward Emil Langberg
Albert Eve
Eric Edholm
Erik Larsen
Finn Eriksen
Hans Blidegn
Henry O. Thompson
Ingvard Skobo
Jacob Christian Bach
Jens Norgaard