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4 days ago6 min read

Delightful Discoveries - 55 Reasons Why You Should Get Off the Ring Road

Travelling off the Ring Road brings many delightful discoveries.

Jan 38 min read

Perpetual Sunlight, Seamless Bonds

By Magna Goodman, Snorri 2024 Editor's Note: If you are interested in joining the Snorri Program in 2025, the application deadline is...

Dec 7, 20243 min read

My 2024 Snorri Adventure

By Maia Chapman Editor's Note: If you are interested in joining the Snorri Program in 2025, the application deadline is Monday, January...

Nov 9, 20243 min read

Discovering Your Roots Through Language

Note: Icelandic Language Day (dagur íslenskrar tungu, English: "day of the Icelandic tongue") is celebrated each year on November 16....

Oct 11, 20246 min read

Meditation on Family and Home - Snorri 2024

By Audrey Ledford From Seattle, Washington, Audrey is a recent graduate of Georgetown University with a B.S in Foreign Service and...

Oct 11, 20248 min read

Icelandic Roots: Praising and Preserving the Heritage

Editor's Note : The following is an edited excerpt from the article Arfleifðin vegsömuð og varðveitt . This is an article published in...

Sep 28, 20247 min read

Icelandic Genealogy the Hard Way

By Dennis McLane The Icelandic Roots Database is one of the greatest sources for what could be called your “instant Icelandic family...

Sep 28, 20248 min read

Snorri 2024: Magna Goodman Deepened Her Roots

Snorri 2024 Magna Goodman Deepened Her Roots

Aug 17, 20246 min read

Blessed Amma - The Deuce of August celebration in North Dakota

Excitement blossomed deep within me as I imagined being among people who loved everything Icelandic as much as I did.

Jun 29, 20246 min read

Secrets Beneath the Earth in an Icelandic Cemetery

We’ve been working on a mystery, and for now … it remains unsolved. Where is the exact burial location? The secrets are beneath the earth.

Jun 22, 20243 min read

The Worst Week and the Best Day

Editor's Note: Emma Kaliel wrote this account about her 2023 Snorri Experience. The 2024 Snorri participants are currently engaged in...

Feb 3, 20243 min read

Roots Tips...What You Didn't Know You Didn't Know

by Shaune Jonasson Are you stumbling with working through the Icelandic Roots database? Having difficulty with searching for an ancestor?...

Jan 6, 20244 min read

The Experience of a Lifetime

Note: The 2024 Snorri Program application deadline is mid-January. Find out more at snorri.is By Emily Gudbjartson Going to Iceland with...

Nov 24, 20233 min read

My Snorri 2023 Experience

By Hendrik Vis When I first heard of the Snorri program it seemed like a once-in-a-lifetime experience and an opportunity to connect on a...

Nov 11, 20233 min read

Do You Care About Your Icelandic Heritage?

Yes. Of course, you care about your Icelandic heritage. That is why you are reading this! Ten years ago, on November 12, 2013, Icelandic...

Aug 19, 20235 min read

DNA, Genealogy and That Magic Thing That Makes an Icelander an Icelander-Roots of Icelandic Roots

By Rob Olason Icelandic Roots is celebrating its tenth anniversary in 2023. But to arrive at the birthdate of Icelandic Roots in 2013,...

Aug 6, 20234 min read

787,642 People Later...

By Rob Olason Icelandic Roots Celebrates its tenth anniversary on November 12, 2023. The organization received its non-profit...

Aug 6, 20237 min read

The Icelandic Celebration of 1928 and 95 Years Later

In 1928, the Icelandic community of northeast North Dakota celebrated the Golden Jubilee, the 50th anniversary of the settlement. A book,...

Jul 8, 20238 min read

Sarah's Story - Crazed by the Klondike

A new to Icelandic Roots member delved into the IR database and was surprised at the breadth of knowledge contained therein. What she...

Jul 8, 20234 min read

Mother of Light: A Novel

The Journey of an IR Volunteer from Genealogist to Author By Elin de Ruyter Writing a book is no easy feat, and though it appears from...