Project Iceland

Profile managers: Dagmar Thorisdottir [send private message], Missy Berryann [send private message], Nordic Project WikiTree [send private message], and Juha Soini [send private message]

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Are you interested in the Nordic Project?

• Top Level Project: Nordic
• Project Leaders: Missy Berryann
• Coordinators: Sigurður Eysteinsson and Dagmar Thorisdottir
• Answer our G2G welcome post to join the Nordic project and get a badge.
• Add nordic to your followed tags.
• We use Nordic Project Google Group for communication.
• Here is the Nordic project's Suggestion List. Working on these is a great way to contribute.
• Nordic Project Member List.
• Here is what our members are working on.

How to Join

In order to join the project, you must first be a WikiTree member.. If you are not yet a WikiTree member, see Help: How to Use WikiTree to get started.

Project badges will be awarded to those who would like to actively participate in the project and contribute to the project goals. You will also be invited to join the google group we use for discussions within the project.

We recognise that people lead busy lives and may not be active on WikiTree every single week of the year, but you should at least have the intention to contribute towards the project's goals on a somewhat regular basis.

If you are interested, please check out the join thread in G2G.

If you "just" need help with your Icelandic ancestors the best place to ask questions is in G2G, remember to add the tag ICELAND

Mission and goals

Project Iceland is a forum to connect people interested in genealogical research in Iceland and improving Icelandic profiles.

How to help

• You can correct errors in the Suggestions Report Iceland.
• You can find sources for unsourced profiles.
• Icelandic branches need to be connected to the big tree. See How to Connect the Unconnected

Resources

• Iceland censuses Searchable database.
• Iceland church censuses Searchable database. Very limited at the moment.
• Vefsjá Þjóðskalasafns Íslands Icelandic church books from the National archive
• Tímarit.is Searchable database of newspapers and magazines.
• Minningargreinarnar Morgunblaðsins Searchable database of obituaries.
• List of online genealogical books
• Jardabok.com A database with the location of farmsteads and text from 'Jarðabók...'. the most detailed historical documents describing the way land was used in late medieval to early modern Iceland, roughly 1500-1860.

Icelandic names

Iceland has a patriotic naming system, which basically means there are just a handful of hereditary family names in Iceland.

The most important name in Iceland is the first name. When people talk about Jón Þórsson, they never call him Þórsson but always use his first name Jón, often using the place where he lives if they need to specify which Jón they talk about. Patronyms are mostly used in writing and official occasions.

• Patronyms are derived from the father's first name followed by -son or -dóttir. The above example Jón Þórsson is Jón son of Þór and his sister would be Guðrún Þórsdóttir, daughter of Þór.
• Matronyms are like the patronyms, but they use the mother's name instead if the father's. If Jón and Guðrún above would have matronyms after their mother Helga they would be Jón Helgusson and Guðrún Helgudóttir.
• Avonyms would be used to distinguish two people living in a community with the same name. This would then be the paternal grandfather. Let's say that Þór's father was Ólafur. That would make Jón's name Jón Þórsson Ólafssonar. That would tell him apart from Jón Þórsson Eyjólfssonar living next door.

See also wikipedia: Icelandic name

Icelandic alphabet

Please use the correct letters when writing Icelandic names. If your keyboard does not support some of these letters, please copypaste them from the list below.

See also wikipedia: Icelandic language