New material in the Digital Archives
Here is a collection of sources that were published by the Digital Archives in the last two months.
The collection can be labeled “a little bit of this and a little bit of that”. Some of these sources are very relevant to us. I haven’t had the capacity to study the sources in detail, so they are presented as is.
Of the census material, the National Archives in February published the census of 1885 for Bergen. The 1885 census was previously transcribed and searchable, but the pictures make it possible to study the basis for the transcriptions.
Oslo City Archives has published the municipal census for Kristiania (Oslo) for 1908 and 1909.
IKA Hordaland publishes household cards (dated November 1, 1917) from the Municipal Provisioning Council archives. These are not part of a census, but the similarities with censuses are so large that the sources in the Digital Archive are categorized as municipal censuses.
It was published 288 fire assessment protocols from various collections in Riksarkivet (16), Statsarkivet Hamar (37), Statsarkivet Oslo (1), Statsarkivet Kristiansand (4), Statsarkivet Stavanger (26), Statsarkivet in Trondhem (34) and Statsarkivet in Tromsø (170). The easiest way to search is with the subject tag “Branntakster” , combined with county (s) and / or municipality (s).
From the archive Statistics Norway (Statistisk sentralbyrå), Socio-demographic topics, Population, 288 boxes were published with changes in the population for 1908-1913. The population changes include lists of births, marriages, deaths, and stillbirths, submitted to Statistisk Sentralbyrå Norway.
Notarial protocols and marriage protocols have been published from the archives of the Magistrate and town clerk in Bergen and Midhordland.
A total of 65 emigrant protocols and registers for emigrant protocols have been published from the archives of the Fredrikstad Police, Larvik Police, Bergen Police District, Sunnmøre Police, Nordmøre Police, and Trondheim Police.
From the archive Nortraship, Ship Diaries, digitization of World War II ship diaries is ongoing. In February, 120 ship diaries were published.
A few decades ago, a large number of diplomas (letters) from the National Archives’ diploma collection were photographed. These diploma photographs have been digitized and are now published. Indexing is in progress that identifies each diploma. The oldest of these is from the year 1196. It may be hard to find information in these as they are mostly written in the Old Norse language.
The book series Norwegian Rigs-Registrants in 12 volumes have been published. The image files are taken from Bokhylla (Webbook) in the “Old Digital Archive”. The Norwegian Government Registers 1523-1660, Volume I-XII is a printed collection of letters and regulations issued by the King through the Danish chancellery.
The National Archives has also published a lot of other archive material; single archive units or small groups of archive units. Here are a few pieces
- Copies of source material regarding Bergen in the archive Sollied, Olaf and Thora collections.
- Lensmann in Jølster Jens Nilsen Nedrebø’s records from the last part of the 1600s in the archive Document collection – The State Archives in Bergen.
Jens Nilsen Nedrebø is my 8th Great Grandfather and I wrote about him and his diary in the article #52ancestors: I’d like to meet
Like I said; I haven’t had the capacity to study these sources in detail, so if you have questions, don’t hesitate to comment below or send me a word through my Contact page.
