A tribute to all the people from Iceland who had for known
or unknown reasons to search for a new life in a new country.

  The Purpose of this Site
 
A long term goal is to develop this site into an electronic knowledge base for the benefit of Icelanders and people of Icelandic heritage world wide as well as persons wishing to learn more about Iceland and Icelandic Culture, History, Genealogy, etc.
A part of the Icelandic Culture is of course the cultural mark left by the Icelandic settlers in North America and their descendants.
A mark of that kind is the beautiful painting above by Arni Sigurðsson (1884-1970), depicting Icelandic settlers at the shore of Lake Winnipeg.
Click in the picture and read the story of the landing at Willow Point.
Explore the links to other web sites related to Iceland.
Feel free to submit articles and other information for consideration.

Genealogy
The main purpose of this site is to help people of Icelandic origin to search for their roots in Iceland, their ancestors and living relatives. Therefore my aim is to build up databases with names of Icelandic settlers in North America as well as their descendants. Please help by providing me with all available genealogical information you have of your Icelandic heritage. Doing that you might find unknown relatives in North America and you do help your Icelandic relatives to get in touch!

Contact Me
Do you have a comment on my website?
Do you need more information?
Well, that's what I'm here for. You can reach me by e-mail!
But remember - this is my hobby! So - don't expect too much ;-)

Please notice: Not all links of the site are working at the moment, but I'm still working ;-)
so - patience please.

Make me happy!

You have been visiting Hálfdan Helgason's Genealogical homepage.
First presented 24 August 1996.
Last revised 27 May 2002
Any suggestions or comments would be appreciated
Thanks for the visit - welcome again!

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Copyright and copyleft 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002: Hálfdan Helgason