Norway Genealogy

Bygdebok Links

A 'bygdebok' - what is that?

By Province

Akershus Aust-Agder Buskerud Finnmark Hedmark Hordaland Møre og Romsdal Nordland Nord-Trøndelag Oppland Oslo Rogaland Sogn og Fjordane Sør-Trøndelag Telemark Troms Vest-Agder Vestfold Østfold

By Lag

Agder Gudbrandsdal National Gudbrandsdal Northwest Hadeland Hallinglag Hardanger Land Lappmark Mjøsen-Oppland Møre og Romsdalslag Nordfjord National Nordfjord Wisconsin Nord Hedmark og Hedmarken Nordhordland Nordlandslag Numedal-Kongsbergslag Ringerike-Drammen Districts Rogalandslag Romerikslag Setesdalslag Sigdalslag Sognalag Sognefjord Sunnfjord Sunnhordland Solør Telelag Toten Trønderlag Valdres Samband Vosselag Østfoldlag

 General Links

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.

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