Another name for "Oslo City Church"

DavidStinson1

There are transcribed records in Ancestry that say they are from "Oslo, Oslo City, Oslo". There is no indication what Parish I need to use in order to check the information for myself in the DIgitalarkivet. There are images of the records and I can see page numbers etc., but I would like to have the "Quick Links" in my tree on Ancestry. How do I find what Parish these images are from? I've checked the Oslo Domkirke/ Vår Frelsers congregation and that's not it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Gordon Collett

Can you post a link to one of these records that only give the city and not the parish? I'd like to see if there are any clues at all as to where the records really are from.

DavidStinson1

https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/60606/images/Kb20060227050109?pId=93531033

If this doesn't work I can try to download the page to my computer and then upload it here. I'm interested in the #50 record.....but I need to know the Parish in Oslo.

Thanks, David

Gordon Collett

Seems really strange that nowhere does there seem to be a real citation for this record.

However, using the Digitalarkivet's Detailed Person search page, I was able to find the same record very quickly: https://www.digitalarkivet.no/en/search/persons/advanced?from=&to=&firstname=camilla&lastname=roberg&birth_year_from=&birth_year_to=&birth_date=&birth_place=&domicile=&position=&event_year_from=&event_year_to=&event_date=&related_first_name=&related_last_name=&related_birth_year=

It turns out that the English version of the search page does indeed say the parish is "Oslo city Garnisonsmenigheten various." The Norwegian is: "Oslo by Garnisonsmenigheten div"

The scanned image is at: https://www.digitalarkivet.no/kb20060227050109

If starting out trying to find the scanned register, putting in Oslo as the parish does not bring up any Oslo by, but it does bring up the Garnisonsmennighet that the record is from.

Since the indexes for these records that Ancestry has are all from the joint Ancestry, My Heritage, FamilySearch indexing project that they did for the Norwegian Archives, you should be able to take the information about a person in any record on Ancestry and use that to search Digitalarkivet quite efficiently even when the source information is hidden by Ancestry.

DavidStinson1

Thank you very much, Gordon. I have gotten very good at searching "media" at Digitalarkivet (https://media.digitalarkivet.no/) yet have not learned how to search when I don't know the exact or approximate dates and Parish names. I hope that makes sense. Thank you for giving me another tool to use in my research. As always, I wish I had know this sooner!

Best wishes,

David