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...
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- Jul 17
- 3 min
Meet Christina Sunley at the Icelandic Roots Book Club on Thursday August 4
By Heather Goodman Lytwyn The Tricking of Freya, a novel by Christina Sunley, is one of the first contemporary novels by an American...
- Mar 25
- 4 min
Skálholt-The Religious, Cultural and Educational Center of Early Iceland
Skálholt Church photo by Jody Arman-Jones Located in the southern part of the Biskupstungur valley between the rivers Hvítá and Brúará,...
- Jan 16
- 2 min
Destination: Hælið Museum, “The Great White Plague” Center
Update: Here is the video recording of the webinar: If one follows Eyjafjördur south of Akureyri about 10 km, just before reaching the...
- Dec 30, 2021
- 2 min
The Old Norse Calendar
As we begin the New Year from our modern calendar, this is a good time to look back at our Icelandic heritage and the calendar used by...
- Dec 29, 2021
- 2 min
More Gems from the Icelandic Roots Treasure Chest
“Hidden Gems Part II” -by Rob Olason (IR#I149007) Looking through the Special Collections section of the Icelandic Roots database offers...
- Sep 26, 2021
- 9 min
The grave finally found after years of searching
Written by Kolbeinn Tumi Daðason (News Director of Stöðvar 2, Vísir, og Bylgjan) Visir.is - Link to the Article in Icelandic September...
- Sep 4, 2021
- 4 min
The Saga of the People of Vopnafjörður
Vopnafjörður was a main port of Icelandic emigration to America and many of us can trace our families to East Iceland. Therefore, the...
- Aug 20, 2021
- 2 min
Finding Micah Northman
By David Johnson (Volunteer IR Genealogist on the Emigration Research Team) In 2015, an emigrant Icelander caught my attention. He was...
- Jul 21, 2021
- 20 min
Icelandic Immigrants to Washington Island – 1870
Washington Island Icelanders 1870 and beyond.
- Mar 11, 2021
- 2 min
The Founding of the Icelandic Settlement in Dakota
You are invited to a public webinar on Tuesday, March 16th featuring the dictated words of The Father of the Icelandic Settlement in Dakota.
- Nov 12, 2020
- 3 min
Celebrating 7 years with exciting news (fréttir) and a new video (nýtt myndband)
**Íslenska eftir Written by Sunna Furstenau, Edited by Natalie Guttormsson Dear friends, Here at Icelandic Roots, we are marking our 7th...