Randers County, Denmark Genealogy

Guide to Randers ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth records, marriage records, death records, census records, parish registers, and military records.

How to Find Birth, Marriage, and Death Information
Instructions for finding records are found on the individual parish pages, linked to the clickable map and parish list below. .

History
(Type history of the county here)

Archives, Societies, and Libraries
Many records from places in Randers County are held by the Danish State Archives in Viborg. Records are also available from the State Archives' website ArkivalierOnline.

Census Records

 * 1834 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; images
 * 1835 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1840 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1845 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1850 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1855 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1860 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1870 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1880 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1890 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1901 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1906 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1911 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1916 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1921 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1925 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images
 * 1930 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images

Parishes
Click here for a color-blind friendly version of this map.

Parishes

Church Records

 * 1484-1941 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images

Military

 * 1789-1792 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images

Probate Records

 * 1674-1851 at FamilySearch - How to Use this Collection; index & images

Court Records
This table lists records available from one or more courts (byret, herredsret or birk) in the county. The description in the Record column is from the FamilySearch Catalog record, and may not always be the same as the description given by the National Archives of Denmark. Images are available on FamilySearch, as well as through the National Archive's ArkivalierOnline site.

Links in the DGS (FamilySearch) and ArkivalierOnline column will open a new window where you can view the images. The link in the Daisy column will open a new window where you can see the National Archives's holdings for the court.