{"id":8795,"date":"2023-11-30T11:35:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-30T09:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/?p=8795"},"modified":"2023-11-30T16:04:48","modified_gmt":"2023-11-30T14:04:48","slug":"case-study-grades-on-confirmation-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/martinroe.com\/blog\/case-study-grades-on-confirmation-lists\/","title":{"rendered":"Case study: Grades on confirmation lists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Here is a quick look at some details from a confirmation list.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>I received a question from a reader who asked for help to understand some comments in a list of confirmands from 1902. You can find the record here:<\/p>\n<p>Fjelberg sokneprestembete, SAB\/A-75201\/H\/Haa: Ministerialbok nr. D 1, 1879-1918, s. 141<br \/>\nBrukslenke for sidevisning: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitalarkivet.no\/kb20050809031224\">https:\/\/www.digitalarkivet.no\/kb20050809031224<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The person in question is no. 14 Knut Torsteinsen Haugen. The column my reader wanted help with is the last one with the heading &#8220;Anm\u00e6rkninger&#8221; This can be translated to &#8220;comments\/notes&#8221; The words in the parentheses says &#8220;Konfirmandens Kristendomskundskab m.V&#8221; This means the &#8220;confirmands knowledge of religion&#8221; &#8220;m.V.&#8221;\u00a0 is an abbreviation that means &#8220;med videre&#8221; I can&#8217;t think of any other translation than &#8220;and others&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This means that in this column we can expect to find the confirmands knowledge of religion expressed by grades and also other comments the minister might find necessary to make.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the grades are fairly straightforward. \u00a0It says &#8220;g&#8221; \u2192 &#8220;godt&#8221; meaning &#8220;good&#8221;. &#8220;mg&#8221; \u2192 &#8220;meget godt&#8221; meaning very good. These are grades that were used when I was in elementary school in the early 70s.<\/p>\n<p>What puzzled me was the notation &#8220;an&#8221;. This is not a Norwegian word so I assumed it was an abbreviation.\u00a0 Now I started to go through the other pages of the confirmation lists. For the year 1900 the minister has written the grades in fulltext. Her we learn that the abbreviation &#8220;an&#8221; means &#8220;Antagelig&#8221;. This is a word that in Norwegian normally means &#8220;probably&#8221;. This seems a little strange used as a grade, so in that context a better translation might be &#8220;acceptable&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>In a master thesis by Eivind Myhre I find reference to a grade scale used in Norwegian schools in the early 1900s with the grades starting with the best on top (Myhre page 41);<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>S\u00e6rdeles godt (Sg) \u2192Extremely good<\/li>\n<li>Meget godt (Mg) \u2192 Very good<\/li>\n<li>Godt (G), \u2192 Good<\/li>\n<li>Antagelig (An) \u2192 Acceptable<\/li>\n<li>Uantagelig (Ua). \u2192 Unacceptable<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>It needs to be said that througout the years where we find grades on confirmands lists, I am not able to see any consistent system. It seems like each minister used whatever gradesystem he found suitable.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"su-spacer\" style=\"height:10px\"><\/div>\n<div>Looking at the rest of the comment, what comes behind this &#8220;an&#8221; is &#8220;angive ligeledes 1ste Marts&#8221;\u00a0 &#8220;Reported in the same way to be March 1st&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div>\n<div class=\"su-spacer\" style=\"height:10px\"><\/div>\n<div>&#8220;in the same way&#8221; here probably refers to the first of the comments at the top of the page. This reads &#8220;reported self the birthday to be the 12. of March&#8221;.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-spacer\" style=\"height:10px\"><\/div>\n<div>These comments point to the fact that these confirmands gives a different birthdate than what is recorded in the church records. The minister used the baptismal list to prepare the confirmation so the first date given on the left page is most likely the correct date.<\/div>\n<div><div class=\"su-spacer\" style=\"height:10px\"><\/div>\nAs we know birthdates\/years were not as important back then as it is today. I have seen many examples of birthdates given on gravemarkers and death certificates being different than the one listed in the baptismal records. Proper source evaluation tells us that sources closer in, or at the time of the events are likely to be more accurate.<br \/>\n<div class=\"su-spacer\" style=\"height:10px\"><\/div>\nThe person we are looking at in this case is interesting because he was born on February 29th which occurs only every leap year. It might have been changed to March 1st as this was the day his birth was &#8220;celebrated&#8221; or at least acknowledged.<br \/>\n<div class=\"su-spacer\" style=\"height:10px\"><\/div>\nIf you have questions that might fit the &#8220;case study&#8221; format or any other questions about Norwegian genealogy I am happy to hear from you. I normally learn a lot from many of the questions I receive.<\/div>\n<div class=\"su-spacer\" style=\"height:10px\"><\/div>\nSource:<br \/>\nMyhre, Eivind: <em>Masteroppgave ADM755 Samfunnsendring, organisasjon og ledelse, Karakterer i orden og atferd &#8211; Historiske perspektiver <\/em><em>og n\u00e5tidige forst\u00e5elser <\/em>H\u00f8gskolen i Molde (Molde) 16. november 2020.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is a quick look at some details from a confirmation list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8000,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-norwegian-sources"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.0 (Yoast SEO v27.4) - 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