Genealogy, history and culture from Norway
Some of you may have read my article How to find living persons in Norway I realize this article needs a little addendum.
I just came a cross a website called zazzle.com. They offer a large variety of customizable products. I was fascinated by the binders that are catering to us genealogists.
This is the last installment in my little study of Gothic handwriting.
Got you worried there? Unlike a lot of other letter combinations OCR is very nice to have.
In this installment I will look at some words that frequently appear in church records.
Many foreigners struggle with the causes of death that are listed in the Norwegian church records.
I am continuing my quest at getting better at reading Gothic handwriting. In this part I will try to group the letters together and look at differences and similarities.
In the last “installment” of this “study” I promised to be back with more. I have gone through some records from the first part of the 1700s and tried to recognize the letters there.
It can often be difficult to find the name of a particular place or farm when searching for ancestors in Norway. I want to draw your attention to three tools that has been invaluable in my genealogical work.
Going to the FamilySearch.com webpage “Search Genealogies” you can search family trees submitted by users based on Norwegian bygdebøker.
When you get into Norwegian genealogy you will very soon find a number of unfamiliar and sometimes strange ways to name a person.
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