Dypvaag, Austre Morlands, Flosta, Holt, NORWAY Bygdbooks

Steven1947

Hi, this is a bit of a interesting question, but does anyone know if these farm books have been turned into one giant genealogy tree and is it on FamilySearch in either the regular trees or the imported trees. My ancestors are a very large portion of these books and I'm hoping to be able to link everyone together. Or even if each book has a separate tree for the entire book that would be great. Surely some very talented genealogist have ade an effort to integrate everything?? Hope!

Steve

Gordon Collett

You might already be familiar with all this, but I'll post everything I can tell you in case others read this at some point.

There's some good news and some bad news here. I'll let you decided which is which. I'll take just the Dypvåg book here and leave it to you to analyze the rest.

I see that at least volume 2 of the bygdebok was published in 1965. That means there has been plenty of time for descendants of some of the families in bygdebok to have taken sections of it to create their family linage. If these were submitted to FamilySearch you will find big blocks of the book already in Family Tree. Potentially multiple times. Unless someone started this after 2012 directly in Family Tree, you won't see any sources because previous databases didn't keep the sources for submissions.

Next, there is a good website that has complied what records from Scandinavian parish registers were used in the old extraction program that preceded indexing. You will find it here: https://hammerum-herred.dk/viewpage.php?page_id=8

Putting in the search terms for Dypvåg you get these two sets of results:

It looks like there are some gaps in time where no records were indexed. Scanning quickly, it looks like christenings cover 1699 to 1812, 1816 to 1840, and 1883 to 1886.

These extraction records are formatted like this:

• Christening: child's first name, christening date, and parents' names (depending on the year it might include birth date).
• Marriage: groom's name, bride's name, marriage date (depending on the year it might include the birth year of each of the couple and their fathers' names).

All these IGI and VRI records were imported into Family Tree. You can find them from the main search page by searching using the batch number like this:

Note that a hyphen has to be added before the last number.

------- https://www.familysearch.org/search/record/results?q.batchNumber=C42125-2

These initial imports did not link any of these in extended families so there are a lot of small twigs in Family Tree of these 3 person or 2 to 4 person family groups. A huge work for us Norwegian researchers is assembling all these twigs into the one, single tree that Family Tree should be.

Finally, many bygdeboker have themselves been indexed by volunteers into community trees. You can find these under the Genealogies section:

Click on View All Trees In This Collection then search using the book name:

Click on the title and search away.

Unfortunately, I have never found these very useful because they are too incomplete. They do have family groups, but do not have any of the background information as to who the people really are. Also, although they indexed every name in the book and grouped them as families, they only linked a family as found on specific page. So these are not one giant tree but again a group of family fragments. What I mean by that, is that if the same Ole Andersson is found on page 50, 123, 217, and 341, he appears in the tree four different times with the families he is linked to on those four different pages.

Since you have the bygdebok in hand, you will actually be best off just working directly from the book but expecting that just about everybody in the book is already in Family Tree if the time period is covered by an extraction batch.

For example, take a family in the book. Determine from my images above which IGI or VRI batch the couple's marriage will be found in. Search that batch to find the marriage. Confirm in the Digitalarkivet's original parish record images that you really have the right people. Most likely that source will already be linked to someone in Family Tree. This will show on the source's page. Go to that couple then work to clean up that family by merging in the duplicates you will have a high chance of finding, fixing existing information, adding additional information, attaching hints as appropriate, adding more sources. If you are lucky, you will find that many of these people will already have been worked on by your distant cousins. As you work through this, you may find errors in the bygebok. That happens occasionally.

Here is an example source page for one of these extraction records:

The Family Tree profile created from this source has, in this case, never been edited so it looks like this tree fragment of just a child and her two parents in which the two parents have only their names listed:

Note how sparse the information is. This is because all the information was derived strictly from that extraction source.

Another sign that you are working with one of this type of record, is that when you go the source tab and look at the two extraction sources for this record you will see this:

Getting all these fragments in Family Tree united into the one huge tree you were hoping to find is a lot of effort, but it's pretty satisfying work. Congratulations on becoming the "very talented genealogist [who will make] an effort to integrate everything."

Gordon Collett

I misspoke a bit. All the IGI and VRI extracted records are in the two databases "Norway Baptisms" and "Norway Marriages." The majority of the records, but not all, were used to create people in Family Tree.