Viborg County, Denmark Genealogy

Guide to Viborg 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
Viborg Amt (English: Viborg County) is a former county (Danish: amt) in the north-central part of the Jutland peninsula in western Denmark. The county was abolished on 1 January 2007, when most of it merged into Region Midtjylland (i.e. Region Central Jutland). A smaller portion merged into Region Nordjylland (Region North Jutland).

Archives, Societies, and Libraries
(enter archive, society, library contact information)

Census Records

 * 1860 - at FamilySearch — index and images
 * 1870 - at FamilySearch — index and images
 * 1880 - at FamilySearch — index and images
 * 1890 - at FamilySearch — index and images
 * 1901 - at FamilySearch — index and images
 * 1906 - at FamilySearch — index and images
 * 1916 - at FamilySearch — index and images
 * 1921 - at FamilySearch — index and images
 * 1925 - at FamilySearch — index and images
 * 1930 - at FamilySearch — index and images

Parishes
Map of parishes

Probate Records

 * 1674 - 1851 - at FamilySearch — index and images