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A Farm Lease from 1807: Understanding Åsetesrett in Practice
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A Farm Lease from 1807: Understanding Åsetesrett in Practice

April 24, 2026 Martin Roe Eidhammer 0 Comments

My friend and long time reader, Nord Brue has written a forthcoming biography of his Tipp tipp oldefar Nils Trulsen

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A Practical Guide to the new Digitalarkivet viewer
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A Practical Guide to the new Digitalarkivet viewer

April 21, 2026 Martin Roe Eidhammer 2 Comments
Soothing Saturday: Clarinets, Repairs, and Other Trials of Country Life
Soothing Saturday

Soothing Saturday: Clarinets, Repairs, and Other Trials of Country Life

April 18, 2026 Martin Roe Eidhammer 1 Comment
Gaardsdriften Aaret rundt (1891): Stepping Into the Living Rhythm of Your Norwegian Ancestors
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Gaardsdriften Aaret rundt (1891): Stepping Into the Living Rhythm of Your Norwegian Ancestors

April 14, 2026 Martin Roe Eidhammer 0 Comments
Parents names in illegitimate children’s baptism records
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Parents names in illegitimate children’s baptism records

April 10, 2026 Martin Roe Eidhammer 0 Comments

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Bygdebøker in American libraries
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Bygdebøker in American libraries

December 11, 2025 Martin Roe Eidhammer 0 Comments
Update to the Norwegian 1801 census
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Update to the Norwegian 1801 census

July 21, 2023 Martin Roe Eidhammer 0 Comments
Religious dissidents in Norway
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Religious dissidents in Norway

September 11, 2018 Martin Roe Eidhammer 4 Comments
Understanding Norwegian Emigration
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Understanding Norwegian Emigration

November 20, 2025 Martin Roe Eidhammer 0 Comments
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Looking back in Norway

March 24, 2016 Martin Roe Eidhammer 3111 Views 2 Comments

At the website tilbakeblikk.no we are looking back in time. The photographer has collected a number of photos from times

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Norwegian Genealogy

Crossing oceans – bridging my heritage

March 22, 2016 Martin Roe Eidhammer 3348 Views 6 Comments

I just made two great friends from Minnesota; Rick and Janet Swanson. Not only friends, it turns out that Janet

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Norway

Want to learn Norwegian?

March 17, 2016 Martin Roe Eidhammer 2503 Views 1 Comment

I have many friends and relatives who would like to learn Norwegian. 

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An early case of crossdressing?

March 14, 2016 Martin Roe Eidhammer 4109 Views 1 Comment

I was pondering over this picture, trying to figure out who these persons were. I had been exchanging emails with

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Life in general......

Blogs I read

March 10, 2016 Martin Roe Eidhammer 4202 Views 3 Comments

I truly enjoy, and are deeply humbled by, the many visitors who stops by my blog and read my writing.

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Norwegian concepts

Norwegian renaming traditions

March 6, 2016 Martin Roe Eidhammer 5969 Views 2 Comments

Many genealogists know about renaming traditions. Some use it for a lot more than it’s worth.

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Abraham Lincolm on genealogy

March 2, 2016 Martin Roe Eidhammer 3354 Views 4 Comments

“Genealogist should not trust everything they find on the internet” Abraham Lincolm

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Getting started / Your first steps

It is time to clean out the attic!

February 28, 2016 Martin Roe Eidhammer 3594 Views 1 Comment

Here is another article describing the first steps in genealogy and we are going on a treasure hunt.

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Books

A mystery set in Norway

February 27, 2016 Martin Roe Eidhammer 16307 Views 1 Comment

The Storm Sister: A Novel (The Seven Sisters series)  by Lucinda Riley (Author) My wife is a member of a

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Download section

February 23, 2016 Martin Roe Eidhammer 2599 Views 0 Comments

I have added a download section where I plan to add various material that can be helpful to genealogists. I

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