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From: Hugh Watkins <>
Subject: Re: [B&S] New information to be made available
Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2007 16:48:10 +0100
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It has been done in Iceland
sponsored by a genetic study
and historic Iceland that is supported by a body of records dating
back to the ninth

http://www.rootsweb.com/~islwgw/

Icelandic nation-wide genealogy database - 2007 status update
http://genforum.genealogy.com/iceland/messages/3069.html

A few years ago the Icelandic nation-wide genealogy database http://
www.islendingabok.is went online. It includes almost all available
Icelandic genealogy information from the earliest times until the
present - including all currently living Icelanders, with automatic
monthly updates of newborn children and the newly deceased.

Access to this database is free of charge and more than half of the
entire population of the country has by now registered as users of
the database.

Users can look at trees like this: http://i86.photobucket.com/albums/
k109/Adinos/tree.jpg browse through their ancestry and relatives or
check how they are related to anyone else in the database. On the
average, the trees are fairly complete for the last 10 generations or
so, but become somewhat sparse earlier - although everyone can trace
some branches back to the 9th century.

The original plan was to open the database to people of Icelandic
ancestry, in particular descendants of the Icelanders that went to
Canada and the US in the 1874-1914 period and to provide an English
language interface to the dtabase. Unfortunately, however, due to
recent cutbacks in our funding, those plans have been cancelled.

We have also had to cut back on general support - for example free
printouts of family trees and such are no longer available. All our
current resources are being used just to maintain the database, and
to process the remaining sources like the 1762 census.

We are sorry to disappoint anyone who had been hoping to see expanded
access to the database. <<




Hugh W

On 2 Apr 2007, at 08:03, Dianne wrote:

> Ok I fell for it! I'm always hoping there will be a miracle! <grin>
>
> Like the other day my husband's Aunt found out her father's name
> wasn't what
> she thought it was, she applied for her original birth cert,
> because she had
> been adopted. She knew very little about her real father, when I
> found out
> his real name I thought just for fun I would put a search into
> Google and
> low and behold there was his family tree right back to Scotland in the
> 1800's.
>
> I'm always hoping for something like that for my own research
> (aren't we
> all?), when I saw Mike's message I thought Wow, this is it!
>
> You are a naughty naughty boy Mike Gould!
>
> Di Haywood.
> Fremantle Western Australia.
>
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