Feel free to join my speech “Immigration: Norway to Wisconsin” – a part of “Norwegian Immigration Cultural Program” at the McIntosh Memorial Library in Viroqua, WI, Tuesday, July 27th at 10:30am via Zoom. A link to the presentation could be… Read More »Immigration: Norway to Wisconsin
I have attended several RootsTech, and the RootsTech App has allowed us to find relatives among attendees. RootsTech Virtual 2021 doesn’t use the RootsTech App, but you could download the app Family Tree from App Store or Google Play. Log… Read More »How are we related?
The new Digital Archive has not completed putting all the new features in place yet, one of the most cumbersome is perhaps the lack of ability to scroll forward and back in the emigrant lists. There is however a solution.… Read More »Hint – the Emigrant Lists
In the US, you might find a county history book from the area where your ancestors settled. Ancestral Findings have a podcast about the topic. And on their website, they say: County history books are usually excellent genealogical resources. They… Read More »County Histories
We have started a Facebook group called Norwegian Genealogy Study Group. Here is what we wrote about the group: “This group is a place to learn more about Norwegian Genealogy. We will not necessarily find your ancestors, but guide you… Read More »Facebook group
Headstones have for hundreds of years been a way to honor our ancestors. They come in different shapes and forms, depending on where and when. In Valdres and Gudbrandsdalen, we have found wooden headstones. They were, according to Lokalhistoriskwiki.no, most… Read More »Wooden headstones
Some time ago, the old Digital Archives was closed due to security issues. With this, some databases that we hoped would be left in the Digital Archive disappeared. Among other things, there were excerpts from several US censuses that had… Read More »Old Digital Archives closed
In 2017, the National Archives of Norway cooperated with Ancestry, MyHeritage and FamilySearch on a pilot project of transcribing Norwegian records. These partners have worked with the National Archives and have invested a great deal of time and resources making… Read More »New searchable records
Soon all the Norwegian church books from the period 1801-1900’s will be searchable at the website, Digitalarkivet.no. According to their plan, these church records will be available during the first half of 2020. Since 2017, the digital archive has collaborated… Read More »Searchable Norwegian Church records
