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
“A Guide to Norwegian Genealogy, Emigration, and Transmigration” will first be presented at the National Nordic Museum in Seattle, WA on August 24, 2022. Several other speeches will follow in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Read more about the book.
RootsTech 2022 comes with a useful tool called Relatives at RootsTech. You will have to create a family tree at FamilySearch.org or upload a GEDCOM-fil. If you already have a tree, it could easily be extended from a GEDCOM file,… Read More »Relatives at RootsTech
For some areas in Norway, you will find address books (adressebøker) – the first one published in 1838 for Christiania (Oslo), but they were not published every year.[1] These books were based on those who paid the tax, so you will… Read More »Address books
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