Copenhagen: Cemeteries

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Background
In 1760, the Clerk's Cemetery (Assistens Kirkegård) was created for the use of all of Copenhagen's churches. Every state church was in charge of its own section of the cemetery and its own records. However, starting in 1805 all of the burials for the cemeter was recorded in one burial register(Begravelsesprotokoller). Nearly all people were recorded in this register, and are divided between men and women.

What You Typically Find
Although many people were included in the burial register, there was also a substantial amount of other people who were not. Up until 1945, children under the age of twelve were not recorded in the registers. After 1861, others such as military personnel, the poor, and members of minority religions (i.e. Catholics and Jews), were not recorded in the burial registers nor buried in the cemetery. Beginning in 1887, all deaths and burials were recorded in the burial register despite occupation, status, religion, etc.