Norwegian Genealogy

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Digitalarkivet’s New Service for Scanned Church Books: What’s Changing and How We Can Adapt

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Nasjonalarkivet has launched   Digitalarkivet new service for searching and viewing scanned church books (skanna kirkebøker). The rollout began in mid-December, and

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The “Eiendom” Sources in Digitalarkivet: A Complete Guide for Genealogists

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If you research Norwegian family history, you already know the “people records”: baptisms, confirmations, marriages, burials, and censuses. But serious genealogical

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The Black Death in Norway (Svartedauden): population collapse, social change—and how we glimpse it in the sources

Martin Roe Eidhammer 509 Views 0 Comments

The Black Death is often described as a single, terrible event. In Norway, it was both an event and the

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Norwegian church books: a practical, traditional guide for genealogists

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If you research Norwegian ancestors, Norwegian church books are where most solid proof begins—and where many good family stories become

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