Homelands in Norway Part 2
Here is the second half of the Homelands in Norway article from Price Genealogy:
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I had to laugh at one of the suggestions in this article about visiting ancestral homelands in Norway:
"Visit a regional archive – find the church books
"Historically, many of the most significant events in a Norwegian’s life were recorded in the local church book. Their birth/christening, confirmation, marriage, and death/burial would all be written down by the local priest. These church books still survive in the local and regional archives of Norway. If you get a chance, plan to visit one of the archives and see if you can hold the church book in which your ancestor’s life was recorded."
Years ago before anything was online, my wife and I were visiting her parents in Norway for several weeks. One day when not much was planned, just a day for relaxing, I went to the regional archive in Bergen to do some research in Bygdebøker they had there. I found some things I wanted to check in the parish registers and asked about looking in them. I was told only the archivists could do anything with the actual registers but that I was in luck because they had all been microfilmed. They took me over to a microfilm reader and gave me the right microfilm whose first frame read "Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah."
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