Norway - Voss, Valdres, Sogn, Hegra, Kongsvinger, Smøla, Froland, my ancestral areas
Norway Genealogy
by Jean Marthaler
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Research sources 

Websites I find very valuable:

http://library.und.edu/special-collections/bygdebok/   Arne G. Brekke Bygdebok Collection 

www.digitalarkivet.no/en/  Digitalarkivet
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https://media.digitalarkivet.no/en/   Digitalarkivet Scanned records

gda.arkivverket.no/cgi-win/WebMeta.exe?opphev=true Digitalarkivet old English version


http://www.rhd.uit.no/folketellinger/folketellinger_e.aspx  Norwegian Historical Data Centre

http://www.ancestry.com/   Ancestry.com, (many records available for research - by subscription)

https://www.brekketours.com/  For trips to Norway, Brekke Tours is the top tour company in the USA.


https://www.familysearch.org/  Latter Day Saints Family Search site

http://www.fellesraad.com/vosselag.htm  Vosselag page information

http://www.fellesraad.com/#F7  Fellesrad website, shows all the various lags for Norwegian/Americans

http://www.ancestorsfromvoss.com/  Website with information on Voss and database for Voss

http://www.sognalag.org/sognalag.org/Welcome.html  Website for information on the Sognalag-Sogn of Fjordane area

http://usgenweb.org/   Website for each state with listings by county, helpful in research

http://www.astrimyastri.com/  Deb Nelson Gourley's publishing company for ordering English/Norwegian books

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~norway/NorwayList.htm  A great website to learn about many things Norwegian and how to go about starting your research etc.

http://janasgenealogyandfamilyhistory.blogspot.com/  This is a blog by Jana and she has wonderful genealogy links on her website. Jana has ancestry who lived in the Chippewa Falls Township area of Pope County, Minnesota where I grew up.

http://www.mnhs.org/  Minnesota Historical Society website

http://norwaytominnesota.blogspot.com/2011/10/help-is-just-click-away.html  This is a good blog website by Margit Bakke that gives many Norway to Minnesota genealogy links and links to other websites and blogs.

http://floeene.no/deabur/death_burial_intro.htm  This is a website by my friend, Ola Helge Fløene who lives in Nord Aurdal, Valdres, Oppland.  The website gives information on People from Valdres dead/buried in other parts of Norway abt. 1880-1930

http://norwayancestors.com/index.php  Genealogical databases of the kommunes of the Inner Sognefjord entered by Neil Hofland. Done by entering all the data from the kommunes respective bygdeboks. They are all on the website as Trees, with the Inner Sogn tree containing multiple kommunes, namely Vik, Leikanger, Balestrand, part of Sogndal, and a growing part of Luster. 

http://s-aga.org/TNG/index.php  A database with ancestry in the VALDRES, Oppland area and some surrounding areas of Norway. S-AGA (Scandinavian-American Genealogical Association) is a free association run by genealogists who are dedicated to creating a database, which contains all of the Scandinavians from its earliest beginnings up until modern times. 

http://ellingboe.us/  This home page is a portal to the genealogy databases. This is a VALDRES, OPPLAND area database. You may connect to the genealogy section by clicking on Genealogy . To use the genealogy pages you must register as a user.  You may request either the "Ellingboe" tree (about 11,600 names, compiled by Jim Ellingboe) or the "Valdres Slekt" tree (about 54,500 names, compiled by Harald Bøe, with some additions and editing by Jim Ellingboe), or you may ask for access to both. 

http://www.stcloudtrollheim.org/index.html  St. Cloud, Minnesota, Sons of Norway Trollheim Lodge webpage.




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