Mariager City Parish, Randers, Denmark Genealogy

History
Until 1 January 2007 Mariager municipality was a municipality in Aarhus County on the east coast of the Jutland peninsula in central Denmark and the main town and site of its municipal council was the town of Mariager.

Mariager municipality ceased to exist as the result of The Municipality Reform of 2007 when part of it was merged with existing Arden, Hadsund, and Hobro municipalities to form the new Mariagerfjord municipality and belonging to Region North Jutland. The remainder was merged into an enlarged Randers municipality. 

Tax Records

 * 1 January 1696: A consumption, family, & domestic servant tax exists can be accessed by clicking | here.


 * 1 July 1696: A consumption, family, & domestic servant tax exists can be accessed by clicking | here.


 * 1 January 1697: A consumption, family, & domestic servant tax exists can be accessed by clicking | here.


 * 1 July 1697: A consumption, family, & domestic servant tax exists can be accessed by clicking | here.


 * 1 January 1698: A consumption, family, & domestic servant tax exists can be accessed by clicking | here.


 * 1 July 1698: A consumption, family, & domestic servant tax exists can be accessed by clicking | here.

Place Names
Alstrup, Bjerggaard, Brødløs, Broløs, Broløs Hedehust, Cæcilieborg, Fjelsted, Fjelsted Mark, Fjelsted Udflyttere, Fladbjerg, Frandsbjerg, Frydensbjerg, Fuglesangsgade, Hestetorvet, Hohøj, Hou, Hou Skov, Jomfrubakken, Katbjerg, Katbjerg Odde, Kirkegade, Kirkestræde, Klostergaarden, Klovbakken, Klovhøj, Kongenshøj, Lokes Plantage, Lunddal, Mariager, Mariager Landsogn, Mariagerkloster, Marken, Marsilleborg, Memstrup, Møllevænget, Nonneholt, Præstevænget, Rishøj, Silleborg Hage, Simonshøj, Sødisbakke, Teglgade, Tinghøj, Torvet, Trinderup, Tvillinghøje, Udbyen, Udsigten, Vestergade, Vestparken, Vintersbjerg, Voldstedund Østergade

To see what kind of place it is you will need a Danish Gazetteer.


 * Surrounding Parishes

Aalborg amt: Ove, Valsgård, Vive

Randers amt: Falslev, Hem, Hobro, Mariager Landsogn, Sem, Svenstrup, Vester Tørslev

Birth, Marriage, and Death Online Records

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 * The vast majority of research you do in Denmark will be in church parish registers, which are held in the Danish State Archives available online at ARKIVALIERONLINE. Select your county and parish from the drop-down lists.


 * Help Reading Danish Records:


 * Denmark Parish Register Headings provides translated examples of parish headings. You will be able to interpret much of what is in the records using these headings. Danish Word List covers typical  terms found in the records. Fixed and Moveable Feast Days for: Denmark will help you translate dates written in feast day form. Denmark surnames are patronymic and change every generation, so carefully study Denmark Names, Personal.


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 * FamilySearch offers free online lessons about reading old Danish handwriting:, , and
 * Gothic Script and examples (Danish)
 * Gothic script help links (Danish)


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 * To understand the best research strategies for these records, see Denmark Church Records Christenings Guide.

Collections

 * Church Records
 * Kirkebøger - Getting Started
 * Find church books on Arkivalieronline
 * Denmark Church Records
 * Census Records
 * ARKIVALIERONLINE Census records online
 * Censuses - Getting Started
 * Denmark Census
 * Census digitization/index availability - chart showing progress in census digitizing and indexing per location.
 * Court Records
 * Danish Chancellery - Getting Started!
 * Danish Chancery Court Records
 * Denmark Court Records
 * Military Records
 * Lægdsruller, Danish Military Levying Rolls, is a census of men eligible to join military (1789-1932)
 * What's on Lægdsruller and Søruller
 * Danish Military Levying Rolls (Lægdsruller)


 * Probate Records
 * Registers of Wills in the Danish Chancellory
 * Danish Chancellery - Getting Started!
 * , index and images.

Related Sources
Denmark Online Genealogy Records Ask the Community

Family History Library Records
Click Denmark, Randers Records for a full listing of records at the Family History Library, that may be digitized. Check back occasionally to see if your records have become available. In the meantime, some of them might be available at a Family History Center near you. Click on "Places within Denmark, Randers" and then select your parish.