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The Danish Emigration Archives, Birgit Flemming Larsen
The Danish Emigration Archives, Birgit Flemming Larsen
The Bridge
The Danish Emigration Archives was founded in 1932 as the DanAmerica Archives.
Max Henius, a native of Aalborg and an enterprising businessman in Chicago, was the immigrant behind the Archives. It might be seen as flexibility by Danish Americans and their descendants to place their own ethnic group's source materials at a distance to themselves. It did cause some discussions at that time.
The purpose of the Archives is to preserve the history of those Danes who left Denmark to settle in foreign countries. Through the years The Danish Emigration Archives has suffered under several changes due to World War …