VIKING VOYAGER: AN ICELANDIC MEMOIR
The Icelandic Roots Book Club for December 1, 2022, will feature VIKING VOYAGER: AN ICELANDIC MEMOIR with authors Sverrir Sigurdsson and...
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- Nov 10
- 2 min
My Journey
By Brian Borgford She had just celebrated her tenth birthday and was alone, on a six-thousand-mile journey to join her widowed father in...
- Oct 30
- 6 min
My Icelandic Immigrant Ghost
By Doreen (Borgfjorð) McFarlane IR 602083 October is the month of Hallowe’en, so it is a time that many people think about ghosts and...
- Oct 30
- 2 min
Happy Birthday, Icelandic Roots!
Nine years ago, Icelandic Roots was a dream shared by a group of Western Icelanders who wanted to connect with others across North...
- Oct 30
- 4 min
What about Guðríður?
Guðríður who??? A very good day to you! The majority of the people who left Iceland for America did so because the story traveled from...
- Oct 16
- 2 min
Intergenerational Heroes - The Volunteer Team at Icelandic Roots
Guest Article by Arden Jackson CVO (Chief Vinarterta Officer) These pioneers work for the world they will leave behind. They are the...
- Oct 14
- 10 min
Snorri Plus Program Tour August 8-22, 2022
By Judy Dickson This August I was fortunate to be a participant in the Snorri Plus Program which had been forced to cancel plans in 2020...
- Oct 14
- 4 min
The Viking Immigrants: Icelandic North Americans
The Icelandic Roots Book Club Nov 3 Featuring: The Viking Immigrants: Icelandic North Americans with L.K. Bertram By Heather Goodman...
- Oct 14
- 3 min
How do you Unlock the Stories of Your Emigrating Family Members?
By Beth Finnson Samtal Hour on September 26, 2022, was so interesting...as usual. Judy Dickson and Dave Jonasson co-hosted. They posed...
- Sep 18
- 3 min
IR Genealogist Cathy Josephson Featured in Morgunblaðið
Article by Steinþór Guðbjartsson Cathy Ann Josephson, genealogist living at Refsstaður 2, Vopnafjörður is always ready to assist without...
- Sep 4
- 7 min
An Emigrant Woman: Sigriður Bjarnadottir (1862-1946)
Sigriður Bjarnadóttir (I334690) entered this world on the 7th of March 1862. A daughter to Bjarni Jónsson (1828–1887) and Bóthildur...
- Aug 20
- 2 min
Finding Point Roberts, Washington, U.S.A.
Point Roberts is a geo-political oddity. The western United States-Canadian border follows the 49th parallel because of the Oregon Treaty...
- Jul 17
- 4 min
Icelandic Roots at the Heritage Celebrations
Icelandic Roots genealogists will be LIVE for the important Icelandic Heritage Celebrations in North Dakota and Manitoba at the end of...
- Jun 5
- 2 min
A Treasured Memory
By Christal Speer On a family vacation to Iceland in 2004, one of the first places we visited was the marvelous Skogar Folk Museum in...
- May 21
- 4 min
Telling Tales in Hofsós, Skagafjarðarsýsla
Twenty-seven years ago, Valgeir Þorvaldsson began working on a dream. In this dream, he would tell the story of a people. He knew it...
- May 6
- 3 min
Barnasaga-Stories of Women and Children
by Doreen Kristjanson Marston and Þórdís Edda Guðjónsdóttir One of the many special features Icelandic Roots volunteers are working on is...
- Apr 22
- 2 min
Manitoba's Link to Icelandic Heritage
The Southeast & Winnipeg Branch of the Manitoba Genealogical Society is offering an educational program on Monday, April 25th. All are...
- Apr 14
- 4 min
Hofsós and Icelandic Roots
This article has many links to more information. Enjoy! On Monday, April 18th, 2022, we are pleased to have Valgeir Þorvaldsson join us...
- Apr 2
- 2 min
Icelandic Roots-Rætur Fréttir
On New Year's Eve December 31, 2021 Icelandic Roots turned to its members for assistance by asking a simple request: Help us name our...
- Mar 12
- 3 min
Destination Egilsstaðir
Life in Iceland was harsh in the mid-to-late 1800s. At the time, Iceland was part of the Kingdom of Denmark, and Denmark had largely...