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Information in Archives at Home Next in line come the official records and the genealogical institutions of the new country. It is not possible within the scope of this fact sheet to give information about all the countries in which Danish emigrants have settled. In the U.S. The National Archives, Washington D.C., contain an almost inexhaustible amount of source material such as passenger manifests, census records, military records and naturalization records. Thanks to the Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latterday Saint, 50 East North Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah 84150, U.S.A., many original Danish records are now available on microfilm. The facilities of the Genealogical Society are open to the public, free of charge, and if time forbids a personal visit to Salt Lake City, or to one of the branch libraries, a list can be had with the names of researchers accredited in Danish research, who will, for a fee, carry out the research required. The Genealogical Society has published A Genealogical Guidebook and Atlas of Denmark (ed. Frank Smith and Finn A. Thomsen, p.t. out of print), which may be extremely useful also for research carried out in Denmark...***The Danish provincial archives contain records pertaining to both the secular and the ecclesiastical administrations. By far the most important genealogical sources are the parish registers. The majority of the population belonged to the Lutheran National Church, but other denominations, too, were required to leave their registers with the provincial archives. At best the parish registers go back beyond 1660, but as quite a few rectories have suffered through fire over the centuries, a number of parish registers have been lost.