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By David Johnson (Volunteer IR Genealogist on the Emigration Research Team) In 2015, an emigrant Icelander caught my attention. He was...

A translation of a diary from Icelandic to English for the emigration of Sveinn Árnason in 1889.

Washington Island Icelanders 1870 and beyond.

By Stefan Jonasson During the last two decades of the 19th century and well into the 20th, there was an extensive Unitarian mission to...

A small team of Icelandic Roots volunteers is working on a project called Women's and Children's Stories.

You are invited to a public webinar on Tuesday, March 16th featuring the dictated words of The Father of the Icelandic Settlement in Dakota.

How did a girl born of Icelandic immigrants become a famous and beloved pioneer woman doctor of Saskatchewan, Canada? The story begins with

Have you subscribed to the Scandinavian Press magazine? It is a wonderful magazine in full color with news, history, photos, and...

Looking for a great book to read? I just finished, "A Viking Queen's Legacy" by Alfreða Jónsdóttir and highly recommend it! The book...

Icelanders celebrate Christmas with books. So much so that there is a word for the holiday book buying season: Jólabókaflóð or Christmas...

Written by Elín de Ruyter Icelandic Roots is made up of a wonderful group of people from countries across the globe and all from...

By J.D.Flaten Canada boasts the highest number of people with Icelandic roots in the world outside of Iceland, and there is a particular...

We often hear the saying, “The Icelandic immigrants were poor. They had to leave Iceland because of ...

[BLOG REWIND: This story was originally posted to the blog in 2017 in promotion of the INLNA convention that year. You can read the...

Icelandic Roots is delighted to announce that Gísli Pálsson (anthropologist) and Hákon Már Oddsson (film maker) have given us permission...

By: Þórdís Edda Guðjónsdóttir Íslensk útgáfa hér að neðan / Icelandic text to follow September is a busy month for farmers in Iceland....

By Bryndís Víglundsdóttir Mid July 1961. The days were still fusing with the nights and the nights with the days. We had been working...