Norwegian Genealogy and then some

Equipment & scanning

Beautiful binders for your genealogy

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I just came a cross a website called zazzle.com. They offer a large variety of customizable products. I was fascinated

Gothic handwriting

How to read Gothic handwriting – 5

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This is the last installment in my little study of Gothic handwriting.

Equipment & scanning

Many genealogists may have OCR

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Got you worried there? Unlike a lot of other letter combinations OCR is very nice to have.

Gothic handwriting

How to read Gothic handwriting – 4 – Letters to words

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In this installment I will look at some words that frequently appear in church records.

Life in general......

Norwegian causes of death

February 11, 2016 Martin Roe Eidhammer 6660 Views 4 Comments

Many foreigners struggle with the causes of death that are listed in the Norwegian church records.

Gothic handwriting

How to Read Gothic Handwriting — Part 3: Grouping Letters

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I’m continuing my quest to get better at reading Gothic handwriting in old Norwegian sources.

Gothic handwriting Norwegian concepts

Gothic handwriting – 2

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In the last “installment” of this “study” I promised to be back with more. In this post, I focus particularly

Norwegian Sources

Find Norwegian place names

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It can often be difficult to find the name of a particular place or farm when searching for ancestors in

Norwegian Sources

Bygdebøker are made searchable at Familysearch.org.

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Going to the FamilySearch.com webpage “Search Genealogies” you can search family trees submitted by users based on Norwegian bygdebøker.

Norwegian concepts

Norwegian naming

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When you get into Norwegian genealogy you will very soon find a number of unfamiliar and sometimes strange ways to

Norwegian Genealogy and then some

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Parents names in illegitimate children’s baptism records

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