The Danish Brotherhood Society (DBS) was a fraternal organization founded by Danish American immigrants in 1880 which provided social activities as well as a life insurance plan for members. The DAAL has a large collection of DBS materials that include membership records, individual lodge records and memorabilia. The membership records, in particular, are useful as historical records for researchers and genealogists in the United States and in Denmark.
Collections in the Stacks
These folders contain digitized documents, photos, audio, video, etc from the collections housed in acid-free boxes in the stacks at the Danish American Archive and Library. Some of this material may be publicly available. Other materials may be restricted for access by owners/donors of the materials and, possibly, to family members or authorized researchers.
Materials in this collection consist of the digitized files located here as well; as several boxes and binders containing documents, photographs and genealogical information stored at the archive's office in Blair, Nebraska.
Various and extensive genealogical and historical information about persons who lived in Washington County, Nebraska, and neighboring areas from prior to statehood (1867) into the 1970s. This collection is currently located online within the VIG-996 collection but may later be moved to this location. Please follow the link below.
Included are the papers of (Lars) Einar Vig, who documented citizens of Washington County NE and the surrounding area from before statehood (1867) into the 1970s. These papers split among numerous boxes, and the files here are arranged in complete sub-collections that sometimes span more than one box in the stacks. Lists of the papers and their location in the boxes are provided to allow quick retrieval of the original paper, if necessary.