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« on: Monday 06 August 12 19:16 BST (UK) »
http://danish.typeit.org/    - useful for typing Danish characters, other languages too.

http://www.sa.dk/content/us  - the Danish State Archives. Useful information plus Online Services including the Danish Demographic Database and  Arkivalieronline.dk . The former will help locate people, whom you can then search for in the parish registers. Arkivalier has some instructions in English.

http://www.slaegtogdata.dk/  - Danish Genealogy site with help in English and a board for non-Danish speakers.

https://familysearch.org/learningcenter/lesson/reading-scandinavian-gothic-handwritten-records-lesson-1-scandinavian-gothic-letters/255  - Family Search lessons in reading Scandinavian Gothic script, with .pdf of examples to print out.  Well worth a look if you need  to read parish registers.
GRAY - Inveresk; Lanarkshire
LINDSAY - Lanarkshire
PURDIE - Lanarkshire; W. Lothian
POZZI - Elgin; Lancashire
MACKENZIE, MORISON - Isle of Lewis
ARCHIBALD, HAY, HUNTER, SNADDON - Clackmannanshire
COXON, HALL, JACKSON, SHOTTON - Northumberland