FootNote
The new kid on the block, FootNote is known for digitizing historical
documents... many of which are genealogical gems. With naturalizations,
city directories, war records, newspapers, town records, etc... this new
kid is quickly being recognized as an alternative to Ancestry.
World Vital Records
This website has been around for a while, but appears to be getting its
act together. It now boasts almost a billion names and is starting to digitize the United States
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While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
National Archives of
Norway Digitalarkivet (The Digital Archive) of
the Norwegian National censuses of 1801,
1865,
1900
and other
sources and is a joint project between The National Archives of Norway, The
regional Archive of Bergen and The Department of History, University of Bergen
Every source is accessible
through Source categories.
In this section, the sources are sorted by main category:
Censuses
Tax lists
Military rolls
Church registers
Emigrants
Probate registers
Fire assessment registers
Citizenship
Other
The Digital Inn
By clicking on one of the main categories, the
files sorted in this category will be displayed on the right-hand side of the
screen. Some categories, however, are so voluminous that they have been divided
into sub categories, these are: Censuses, Church
registers, Emigrants, and
The Digital Inn. When selecting one of these, there will not be
listed files to the right, instead, you will see sub categories displayed
directly below the main category
The Norwegian Historical Data Centre University of Tromsø The Norwegian Historical Data Centre (NHDC) is a national institution under the Faculty of Social Science at the University of Tromsø
(UiTø). Our main aim is to computerize the Norwegian censuses 1865 onwards together with the parish registers and other sources from the 18th and 19th centuries. The ultimate goal is a national population register for the 18th and 19th centuries, primarily for research purposes, but also for the benefit of schools, genealogists, local historians, etc. Products include printed editions with alphabetical indexes, digital versions on diskettes and statistical tabulations via the Internet
The
Promise of America / Det løfterike landet A bilingual, multimedia website with Norwegian-American materials. The website makes accessible articles and excerpts from books in full-text versions, bibliographies, photos, sound and video clippings covering various aspects of Norwegian emigration to North America and the Norwegian-American immigrant experience between 1825 and 2000. Links to other websites within the field have also been included.
Oluf
Rygh: Norwegian Farm Names The database currently covers the following volumes of O.
Rygh's series on Norwegian farm names: 1 through 17. These volumes cover farm
names in the following modern counties (fylke) Østfold (Smaalenenes amt),
Akershus og Oslo (Akershus amt), Hedmark (Hedemarkens amt), Oppland (Kristians
amt), Buskerud (Buskeruds amt), Vestfold (Jarlsberg og Larviks amt), Telemark (Bratsberg
amt), (Aust-Agder (Agdenes amt),Vest-Agder (Lister og Mandals amt), Rogaland (Stavanger
amt), Hordaland (Søndre Bergenhus amt), Sogn og fjordane (Nordre Bergenshus), Møre
og Romsdal (Romsdals amt), Sør-Trøndelag (Søndre Trondhjems amt), Nord-Trøndelag
(Nordre Trondhjems amt), Nordland (Nordlands amt) and Troms (Tromsø amt). The
names in parenthesis are the older county names used in this database.
100 Years Of Emigrant Ships From Norway
More than 10,000 indexed departures of
ships leaving Norway with emigrants between 1825 and 1925
More than 100 transcribed pre 1867
passenger lists
We are continuously collecting and adding new
voyage accounts
Descriptions and pictures of ships, new
material is added every week.
Many helpful and interesting articles
concerning Norwegian emigration.
How To Research Links
Ancestors
from Norway This website was created in 1996 to provide a road map to
various Internet resources on Norwegian - American genealogy. Since then, Ancestors
from Norway has grown to over one hundred separate web pages, and now
contains several original articles on how to trace your Norwegian ancestors, as
well as numerous links to genealogy-related web sites in Norway and the U.S.
The articles you will find on this web site provide detailed information on how
to use various Norwegian genealogy sources such as census records, church
records, and "bygdebøker". In addition, there are several articles
that provide background information on such topics as the Norwegian patronymic
naming system.
