Copenhagen City, Denmark Genealogy

Guide to Copenhagen City 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.

See the article Locating Family in the City.

History
(Type history of the county here)

Archives, Societies, and Libraries

 * Museum of Copenhagen Includes over 83,000 pictures from Copenhagen and Frederiksberg
 * National Museum of Denmark
 * The Royal Library - Den Sorte Diamant
 * Online records for genealogists, Copenhagen City Archives (main lists of Copenhageners, marriages, citizenship, poor records and funerals)

Districts

 * Sokkelund Herred

Parishes
For additional information, see the parish list.

Burial Records

 * 1805-1968 - at FamilySearch — index

Census Records

 * 1834 - at FamilySearch - images
 * 1835 - at FamilySearch - index and images.
 * 1840 - at FamilySearch - index and images
 * 1845 - at FamilySearch - index and images.
 * 1850 - at FamilySearch - index and images.
 * 1855 - at FamilySearch - index and images.
 * 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
 * 1911 - 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.


 * Police Census Records 1892-1923
 * Danish Census Records online
 * Danish Census Records: Online indexes

Civil Marriages

 * 1739 - 1964 - at FamilySearch — index and images

Church Records

 * 1484-1941 - at FamilySearch — index and images
 * Julins Registre til Københavns kirkebøger
 * Arkivalieronline: Copenhagen Church Records Online

Military

 * 1789 - 1792 - at FamilySearch — index and images

Probate Records

 * 1674 - 1851 - at FamilySearch — index and images

Cemetaries - Funeral protocols

 * Funeral Records - City of Copenhagen 1861-1942