Iceland / Ísland » Libraries, Archives & Museums

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• Family History Library Catalog

  From the FamilySearch web site, an online catalog to the holdings of the LDS Church in Salt Lake City, Utah. Also search for other localities by place name.

  • Iceland

• FamilySearch Centers in Iceland

  From the FamilySearch web site. Includes address, telephone number and hours of operation.

• FamilySearch Centers in Iceland

• Historical Society of Pennsylvania

  Includes a research library with materials on immigration studies.

  • Balch Manuscript Guide

    • Icelandic

• Icelandic Collections: The British Library

• Landsbókasafn Íslands - Háskólabókasafn / National and University Library of Iceland

• LibDex - The Library Index - Iceland

  A worldwide directory of links to library homepages and web-based OPACs (Online Public Access Catalogs).

• Nordic Heritage Museum

  Seattle, Washington. Honoring the legacy of immigrants from the five Nordic countries.

• Pacific Lutheran University - Robert A. L. Mortvedt Library

  Tacoma, Washington.

  • Archives and Special Collections

    • Scandinavian Immigrant Experience Collection

      A depository of historical materials relating to immigrants to the Pacific Northwest from Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden. Closely tied to the Regional Archives of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America.

      • Oral History Collection

        • Iceland

• Repositories of Primary Sources - Europe - Iceland

  A list of links to online resources from the Univ. of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives.

• The European Library

  A portal which offers access to the combined resources (books, magazines, journals.... - both digital and non-digital) of the 45 national libraries of Europe. It offers free searching and delivers digital objects - some free, some for a fee.

• The Library of Congress

  • European Reading Room

    The primary public access point for readers and researchers seeking to use the vast European collections of the Library of Congress.

    • Frequently Asked Questions

    • Library of Congress - European Collections - An Illustrated Guide

    • Overviews of the Collections

      • The Icelandic and Faroese Collections

• Þjóðskjalasafns Íslands / The National Archives of Iceland

  The National Archives was established in 1882. Its oldest records are from the Middle Ages, the oldest one from the church in Reykholt dating back to the year 1185.