The last five years have been spent on the project of recording, scanning and publishing the contents of the Settlement Committee books from the years 1797-1936 from all over the country. The project was carried out in collaboration with the National Archives and under the leadership of Vilhelmsson, the director of the Research Center.

The project was also supported by the Icelandic Regional Development Agency for five years, from 2019 until the end of this year. The project was also supported by the Rannís Infrastructure Fund, the Student Innovation Fund, the University of Iceland Research Fund, the University of Iceland Social Fund and the Research Fund of Haraldur Sigurðsson and Sigrún Ástrós Sigurðardóttir.

Many of the regional archives also loaned out their archives for registration and publication, and the project is therefore a comprehensive listing of nearly all the archives in the country and is a good example of how great results can be achieved through good cooperation between many parties. Around a dozen employees from the north and south of the country participated in the project.

The publication of the project is in a web-based database that is open to the public on the website of the National Archives of Iceland. For scholars and users of these data that have now become available on the website of the National Archives of Iceland, new ways in judicial research and examination of individual cases and types of cases that were decided by the settlement committees are opened. The settlement committee database is published in a linked database with the National Archives of Iceland’s court database, which has now been renamed:.

This semester, all publications of documents on the National Archives’ mediation website are being reviewed, and the Settlement Committee books and the court records will be put in a new uniform in due course. But the documents are already available, although the format has yet to change.