The Emigration
    Why?
    Where from?
    Where to?
    The Settlers in Canada
    Alberta
    Manitoba
    Saskatchewan
    The Settlers in US
    Minnesota
    North-Dakota
    Utah
    Washington
    Wisconsin
    Searching for Ancestors
    In Alberta, Canada
    In Manitoba, Canada
    In Saskatchewan, Canada
    In Minnesota, USA
    In North-Dakota, USA
    In Washington, USA
    In Wisconsin, USA
    Genealogy
    Searching the Roots
    Example of a Search
    The Forefather Finding Facility
    Census Records
    Birth Records
    Marriage Records
    Genealogy and stamps!
    Other Information
    Emigration Ports in 1880
    Icelandic Alphabet and Special Characters
    A tiny Genealogy Dictionary
    Icelandic Names
    The Icelandic GenWeb
    My Icelandic GenWeb -
    well, in icelandic only, but you should manage :)

    Links of Interest
    Poems by K.N.

    The Icelandic National League of North America

    Lögberg-Heimskringla
    is a weekly newspaper with news and articles of interest to all people of Icelandic ancestry with subscribers mainly in North America and Iceland, but also all over the world. The newspaper is published every Friday by Lögberg-Heimskringla Inc.

    The Snorri Program
    Discover your Roots in Iceland

    Iceland Travel Information
    Virtual Iceland


    The Newsletter
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    To descendants of the Icelandic settlers in North America:
    My Mail List brings you a weekly (almost) Newsletter featuring Icelandic genealogy related information. Just take a look at the first number. To the right you see a part of an early number.
    Numbers are sent to List members only.

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    Locations of visitors to this page
    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.
    Welcome to the No. 1 site for Icelandic Genealogy and Icelandic Emigration to North America.
    Start today your research on your ancestry!
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    		 The Purpose of this Site

    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 on your Icelandic heritage. Doing that you might find unknown relatives in North America and you do help your Icelandic relatives to get in touch!

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    The Forfather Finding Facilities

    The Forefather Finding Facility has a large database of Icelandic genealogy. If you e-mail with the first name, last name, approximate birth date, and location in Iceland where your ancestor was born or lived, you may be able to get a list of ancestors and descendants. Of course you can write in English, but the computer listings will be in Icelandic. The computer listings will be sent as text documents so you can easily print them.

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    The Land they left
    "The Iceland that faded from view and disappeared below the horizon as shipload after shipload of our forefathers charted their course for "Ameríka" during the last quarter of the 19th century was a place of austere beauty - a land of green valleys and shining fjords, snowcrowned mountains and blue mists. It was a strangely mystical place, that claimed for its own all its native sons and daughters, and retained over them a powerful hold no matter where their fates would lead them down through the years. It was a majestic land of proud traditions, and it was their home."

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    Searching for Icelandic Ancestors

    This page is designed to help North Americans find their Icelandic ancestors using tools commonly available in libraries and on the Internet. This site provides several tools that you should become familiar with.

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    What's in a name?

    Do you want to know the meaning of your ancestors names? If so - you can see an alphabetical list of icelandic names and their meaning at the Icelandic Names pages. These pages are something I'm still working on -- and I know I still have a long way to go!

    Anyway - read more


    Nelson Gerrard

    Have you ever heard the name Nelson Gerrard?
    Of course you have. So I don't have to tell you about him, but I'll do it anyway. He's a Canadian historian of Icelandic origin, a top rated genealogist and author of the fantastic work The Icelandic River Saga. This book is a welth of information on Icelandic people who settled and lived along the Whitemud River in Manitoba, which became known as the Icelandic River.
    Mr. Gerrard is now working on another huge task, Gimlunga Saga, the story of the Icelandic settlement at Gimli in New Iceland, Manitoba. Take a look at Gimlunga Saga where Mr. Gerrard calls upon the support of the descendants of the Gimli settlers.

    For you and with you since 1995
    Hálfdan Helgason, Reykjavík, Iceland
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    		 The Search

    We search for any information of relatives or descendants of Thorvaldur Stephensen, b. 5 Dec 1829, d. 1895, who emigrated from Reykjavik in 1872 with his family and settled in Chicago. His wife was Ragnheidur Einarsdottir d. 1890 and their children were:
    a) Stefan Olafur Stephensen b. 29 May 1854, married in Chicago Augusta Felth who had emigrated from Sweden.
    b) Holmfridur Gudrun Karitas Stephensen b. 8 Jan 1858, married in Cicago Mr. Sharpe, a Medical Doctor.
    c) Sigridur Stephensen b. 16 Jan 1861
    d) Ragnhildur Magnea Stephensen b. 16 May 1865
    e) Steinunn Stephensen b. 17 Feb 1868
    f) Gyda Palina Stephensen married Mr. Reuterdahl artist painter in Cicago.
    If you know of any information regarding this query, please contact


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    		 Postmarks
    Several of the Post Offices in the icelandic settlements in North America got Icelandic names or they were named after places in Iceland. We find Baldur (Manitoba), Gimli (Manitoba), Heckla (Manitoba), Hekkla (Ontario), Hnausa (Manitoba), Husavick(Manitoba), Kristnes (Sask.), Markland (Manitoba) and Reykjavik (Manitoba) in Canada and we find Hallson in N-Dakota, US, a post office probably named after Jóhann Pétur Hallsson, one of the first icelandic settlers in N-Dakota. And there might be more. Please inform of "icelandic" post offices and of special interest would be photos or copies of cards or envelopes bearing cancells of these post offices.


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