Norway / Norge
Getting Started
How to Trace Your Ancestors in Norway http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/sab/howto.htm
Published by ODIN, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs includes index with links.
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/cgiNorwegian National Archives
win/WebFront.exe?slag=vis&tekst=meldingar&spraak=e
Offers online access to digital archive material. Here you can search databases/tables, read transcripts and
browse digital images as well as listen to digitized sound from the archives.
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~norway/
Norwegian Genealogy Ring Website
Provides a road map to various Internet resources on Norwegian - American genealogy.
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~norway/na15.html
Getting Started
Provides a step by step approach for making your research go as smoothly as possible. By John Føllesdal
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wgnorway/
Part of WorldGenWeb Site
Provides links to the many growing and changing Norway-related genealogy resources that are available
on the Internet.
http://www.kirken.no/
Norwegian Lutheran Church
Presented by Diocese, parish and sub-parish. Site is in Norwegian.
Genealogy Centers and Orgs in the U.S.
Norwegian American Genealogical Ctr
http://www.nagenl.org
Library containing Norwegian church, census, local histories and emigration records and more.
http://www.familysearch.org
Family History Center, LDS Church
Databases with information gathered by the Family History Center in Salt Lake City.
Genealogy Groups in the U.S.
NAHA
http://www.naha.stolaf.edu/
The Norwegian-American Historical Association, Northfield, Minnesota.
http://www.fellsraad.com/
Bygdelag (Norwegian-American)
Organizations of people whom ancestors emigrated from a certain area of Norway.
http://www.nhohlag.org/
Nord-Hedmark and Hedemarken lag
An organization of emigrant descendants from a particular area of Norway, now living in North America.
http://www.rogalandslag.org/
Rogalandslag web site
Descendents of Rogaland Norway that emigrated to the United States of America.
Norwegian-American Genealogical Assoc http://www.norwegianamerican.org/
One of several branches of the Minnesota Genealogical Society (MGS)
Lutheran Roots Genealogy Exchange
http://www.lutheransonline.com/genealogy/index.html
Search for and post inquiries about Lutheran Ancestors.
Immigration / Emmigration
Immigrant Wall of Honor
http://www.wallofhonor.org/
Searchable by name of country of immigration.
Passenger Lists & Emigrant Ships
http://www.norwayheritage.com/ships/index.asp
100 Years of emigrant ships from Norway
American Family Immigration History Ctr http://www.ellisisland.org/
Information that takes you through the pre-Colonial period, through the American Revolution, Ellis Island was a
popular immigration portal.
http://www.castlegarden.org/
Castle Garden
Information on 11 million immigrants from 1820 through 1892.
http://www.slekt.org/utvandring/utvandring.html
Emigration from Gjerpen to America
A collection of bits and pieces about the emigration from Norway and displayed by year.
Index to Trondheim Emigrant Protocol http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~schwartz/Sor
Trondelag/trondprot1.htm
Names are presented in the order in which they are found on the Emigration Protocol film
Innvandrere ordnet etter bosted i Norge http://www.vigerust.net/immigrant/destinationindex.html
Immigrants organized by place of residence in Norway
http://www.norwayheritage.com/ships/hull.htm
Norway Heritage Migration
Coming from Northern Europe to America via the Port of Hull, 1848-1914
http://digitalarkivet.uib.no/utstilling/eng/main.htm
The Norway Emigration
Site has several other links that may be helpful.
General Websites
FamilySearch Free Website
http://familysearch.org
Largest Free Family History Website
FamilySearch Wiki
https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Main_Page
Free family history research advice for the community, by the community
http://ancestry.com
Ancestry
Information, magazine, links and more available by subscription. With a free account you may build a tree.
http://www.ancestry.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
Ancestry Wiki (Free)
A great place to learn more about family history.
http://www.worldgenweb.org/
World GenWeb
Genealogy sites for every part of the world.
http://www.cyndislist.com
Cyndi’s List
Large index of genealogy-related Web sites.
Research Tools
Books
Norwegian Immigrants To The United States
A Biographical Directory, 1825-1850 Volumes 1 thru 6
Huge Amount of Information on FamilySearch Wiki
How-Tos
Links to Books
Links to Websites
Links to Learning
Mesa Family History Center and Website
https://mesarfhc.org
QuickStart for Norway - http://www.mesarfhc.org/quick_starts/norway_.html
How To for Arkivalier - http://www.mesarfhc.org/quick_starts/how_to_arkivalieronline.html
How To for Landsarkivet - http://mesarfhc.org/quick_starts/how_to_landsarkivet.html
How to Use Norway Maps - http://www.mesarfhc.org/quick_starts/how_to_norwegian_maps.html
How to Use Norway National Archives http://www.mesarfhc.org/quick_starts/how_to_norway_national_archives.html