Apr 28, 20194 minTwenty Minutes that Changed EverythingBy Julie Summers Reykjavík, Iceland This is the third post in a series about people who have discovered their Icelandic roots – or connected to them more dee...
Apr 21, 20193 minSocial Media Helps Solve a Genealogy MysteryBy Julie Summers Reykjavík, Iceland This is the second post in a series about people who have discovered their Icelandic roots – or connected to them more de...
Apr 15, 20193 minDigging Up Icelandic Roots: Solving Genealogy Mysteries, One Volunteer at a TimeBy Julie Summers, Reykjavik, Iceland Many North Americans of Icelandic descent have fond memories of family traditions passed down from generation to generat...
Apr 8, 201910 minStronger Together Stronger Together is not just a cute slogan. It means something and is practiced in our Icelandic Roots Community. Our recent blog posts have been about the ...
Apr 2, 20193 minEmigration Ships and Passenger ListsApproximately a quarter of the Iceland’s population, some 15 to 20,000 people, left Iceland during the emigration period which nominally ran from 1870 - 1914...
Feb 12, 201913 minJourney to AmericaÞórður Árelíus Ólafsson aka Theodore Arthur Olafson (IR# I574371) wrote this story, in Icelandic, about his journey to America. Traveling with Þórður was his...
Jan 24, 20194 minIcelanders in Minneota and Unknown PhotosSveinn Magnússon was a talented photographer in Minneota, which is a large Icelandic settlement in southwest Minnesota. His photography studio was in the Th...
Oct 2, 20182 minWorking Together is the SecretHálfdan Helgason and Sunna Furstenau working together on Icelandic Genealogy.
Jun 12, 20183 minWhat About Your Family?Dear friends, This newsletter is for all people with Icelandic connections in North America. There are two projects started by our team in Iceland - The Snor...
Apr 17, 20182 minStories about Children from IcelandDear friends, A wonderful team in Iceland has been collaborating on a very important project. Their plan is to produce a documentary that focuses on the expe...
Dec 9, 20171 minWould you like to be an IcelandicRoots detective?One of the things we do is help our members find their genealogical history by "connecting" them to our Icelandic Roots tree. To do this, we use many tools ...
Nov 30, 20174 minVesturfaraskrá – An Index Chronicling Icelandic EmigrationOur Icelandic Roots database pivots around the over 20,000 people who emigrated from Iceland. Our goal is to detail the lives of every emigrant, their ancest...
Oct 4, 20173 minThe Endurance and Courage of SigurveigThe life of Sigurveig Sigurðardóttir was not an easy one. In 1865 on a day when she lay unconscious and low with typhoid, and her children were in various s...
Sep 25, 20172 minUnderstanding Icelandic Places - Part IIIToday, we focus on key steps for finding and visiting the farms of our ancestors. In the last two posts, we explored Icelandic place names, from both a histo...
Jul 24, 20175 minFriðrika Björnsdóttir - 25 July 1849The Friðrika Björnsdóttir Memorial Restoration Project Riverton, Manitoba, Canada It all comes with the cold water…. “Kemur allt með kalda vatninu” By Salín ...
Sep 7, 20122 minLeaving IcelandI am packing my luggage to leave Iceland and there are so many questions and feelings. What would it have been like for our ancestors to pack all their belon...
