Norwegians in Utah 1825–1930 is the story of those who moved west to Utah, many of them for religious reasons. Between 1825 and 1920, 771,583 Norwegians emigrated, most of them to the United States. In 1825, the ship Restauration left Stavanger with the… Read More »Norwegians in Utah
When working with Norwegian Church Records on Ancestry.com, finding the original record in The Digital Archives of Norway could be challenging. We are searching: Name: Berthe Gurie EndresdtrMarriage Age: 61Record Type: ekteskap (Marriage)Birth Date: 1818Birth Place: True Sogn SoggendahlMarriage Date:… Read More »How to find an original Church Record
Genealogy Mysteries is a place to help those who are struggling with Genealogy Mysteries. Liv Marit Haakenstad, AG®, AGL™ is an expert on Norwegian Genealogy and Norwegian-American Genealogy. She is well known as a speaker at RootsTech and other events… Read More »Genealogy Mysteries
Color coding in Family Tree Maker 2019 is a great tool, but you can’t print a list of the ones who have been color-coded. Here is a workaround. Note: This will not necessarily be a proper GEDCOM-tag. Go to the… Read More »Workaround colour coding in FTM 2019
Do you want to be a part of the biggest Genealogical Conference in The World? Registration for RootsTech 2024 is now open! RootsTech is from 29 February to 2 March 2024. You could sit at home and watch the online… Read More »RootsTech 2024
DNA has been claimed to tell the truth. Or is that actually true? You get a match saying you are related with so and so many centimorgans (cM), and the relationship is so and so. Often it is one generation… Read More »Does DNA tell stories?
It is that time of the year – RootsTech 2023 will be March 2de to 4th – both in Salt Lake City and virtual. You could sign up for free for the virtual event. If you are in Salt Lake… Read More »RootsTech 2023
A free presentation of the book “A Guide to Norwegian Genealogy, Emigration, and Transmigration” will be offered Saturday, October 15th, 2022, at 11 am US Central time. Please register at https://www.studygenealogy.com/contact/. Write “Book talk October 15th” as a message. We… Read More »Free presentation October 15th, 2022
Please join me for some speeches this fall. – 24 August 2022, 6 pm – “A Guide to Norwegian Genealogy, Emigration and Transmigration”, Nordic Heritage Museum, Seattle, WA– 6 September 2022, 7 pm – “How to find clues in US and Norwegian sources –… Read More »Presentations, US fall 2022
This book is now for sale at Amazon.com. The first part of the book “A Guide to Norwegian Genealogy, Emigration, and Transmigration” gives an overall view on the Norwegian emigration history, before taking you to Great Britain, which was one… Read More »A Guide to Norwegian Genealogy, Emigration and Transmigration